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Todd Phillips’s “Joker,” a dark, arthouse take on the comic book villain starring Joaquin Phoenix, on Monday topped the Oscar nominations with 11. The pre-dawn Academy Award announcement capped months of ceaseless campaigning by A-listers and studios, revealing which stars and movies have a shot at Hollywood’s ultimate prize next month. Todd Phillips’s “Joker,” a […]
A trader, Anthony Okolie, who was arrested by the Department of State Services and detained for 10 weeks, has sued the DSS for N500m. Okolie, in a suit filed before the Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, by his lawyer, Tope Akinyode, also demanded N500m from Hanan Buhari, the daughter of the President, Major […]
Traffic diversion for construction works to continue on the 600- metre ‘Kara’ Bridge section on the Lagos outbound corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will begin on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mr Kayode Ibrahim, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing engineer supervising the project, told NAN on telephone in Lagos on Sunday […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Earth Alliance environmental organization will donate $3 million to help wildfire relief efforts in Australia. The foundation said Thursday that it has started the Australia Wildfire Fund to help with an “international response to the catastrophic bushfires” currently raging in the country. The wildfires have scorched an area twice the size of the […]
More than 2,000 teachers from all the 57 local councils are currently undergoing a two-week intensive training being held under the State Government’s Eko Excel Initiative. The programme is a key component of the Sanwo-Olu administration’s education blueprint seeking to deploy technology to fundamentally transform the basic education template, thereby improving the outcome of teaching […]
The Lagos State Government (LASG) on Wednesday announced that it would close two roads to traffic on Jan.9 and Jan.11 respectively. It said that this was to facilitate the completion of the construction of the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line within where the roads were located. The Public Affairs unit of the Lagos State […]
The National Hospital, Abuja yesterday, presented a set of conjoined twins who had been successfully operated on. The twins had been born at the National Hospital in Nasarawa State but were transferred to Abuja as a result of their condition. Consequently, they were kept at the hospital for 16 months, after which the 12 hour […]
The Lagos State Government says it plans to increase its monthly Internally Generated Revenue to fund the 2020 budget. The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Sam Egube, said this on Tuesday at the state’s budget breakdown. He disclosed that the total budget size of N1.17tn would be funded from a total revenue estimate of […]
Sadio Mane was named African Footballer of the Year for 2019 on Tuesday after winning the Champions League with Liverpool and leading Senegal to the Africa Cup of Nations final. 27 year old Mane, wins the award for the first time after finishing runner-up to his Liverpool teammate Mohamed Salah of Egypt in 2017 and […]
