metro news today 170318

The Borno State government has confirmed three persons dead following fresh outbreak of cholera in villages around the Lake Chad axis of the State. Leadership Recalls that Cholera epidemic first hit Borno in August, last year, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, and quickly spread through several...

The annual Raising Confident Girls (RCG) Mums and Daughter Conference will hold on Saturday April7, 2018 at Teeky Arena, Ikate Lekki Axis.The theme of this year’s conference that will hold from 9.00am to 2.00pm is We Grow Together where topics such … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper...

Tunde Ajaja From where he sat on the floor, rolling his eyes from one side to the other, no one could easily guess how many lives 39-year-old Adeola Williams, popularly known as Ade Lawyer, could have taken in the past 10 to 20 years until he opened his … Read more via Punch Newspapers –...

Success Nwogu, Ilorin Three students of the Department of Mass Communication, Kwara State Polytechnic, and a driver have died following a car accident. Our correspondent gathered on Friday that the students had boarded a taxi from the school’s gate to their residence at Oke Osi near Ilorin, the...

The Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has called on the Federal Government to establish Centres for the Deaf in the country so as to cater for the 17m deaf people in the society. Oloyede, who was speaking during a courtesy visit … Read more via...

Deliverance for prosperity, healing, regaining of sight, the lame walking, are part of the miracles and testimonies that would come to bear at the one week inter-denominational conference and deliverance programme scheduled to hold between the 19th and 25th of March 2018 at the main auditorium...

The Kwara state police command has arrested one person for allegedly conducting illegal registration of voters in Offa local government area of the state. A statement by the administrative secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Mr. Paul Atser, said that...

The Sultan of Sokoto and president-general, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, will today be in Osogbo, Osun State to inaugurate the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria. A release by National coordinator, Muslim Media Watch...

26-year old self acclaimed fortune teller, Babatunde Samuel has been arrested and charged before a Lagos Magistrate court for defrauding a woman to the tune of N500, 000 after engaging her in a purported sex deliverance that lasted for one month … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

The Lagos state government and ministry of Agriculture this week held a one-day HIV/AIDS Prevention and sensitization workshop for all abattoir stakeholders in the state. The workshop, which took place at the Oko Oba Farm service centre, Agege, Lagos, had in … Read more via The Guardian...

Pastor Enoch Adeboye General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye has prayed that God brings to an end, the continuous bloodshed in the land caused by incessant herdsmen attacks. Adeboye, who prayed for the state shortly … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

With rising cases in child sexual abuse, Cece Yara Foundation, set up to address these cases, has unveiled a Safe Kids Awareness Programme (SKAP) across Lagos State to enable children recognise and report sexual abuse, and teach them how to stay … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

Rights group, Amnesty International (AI) has claimed that oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, Plc and Eni Spa may have misled regulators in Nigeria by wrongly attributing oil spills to theft and sabotage in order to avoid paying compensation to affected communities. “Amnesty International researchers...

President, CIIN, Funmi Babington-Ashaye Leading Ladies Africa presents its annual #100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria list for 2018. Now in it’s 4th year, the list features 100 Nigerian women drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds and sectors who are … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

Evans A kidnap, Donatus Duru has told a Lagos High Court that his ordeal in the hands of Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (popularly known as Evans) and his gang was gruesome.Duru told Justice Hakeem Oshodi in the ongoing trial of Evans and other … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...