PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will today depart Abuja for a three-day state visit to South Africa, following an invitation by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The two leaders are billed to discuss the welfare of Nigerians eking out a living in the former apartheid enclave. The visit comes against the background...
There were indications on Tuesday that some schools in Lagos State may have also been affected by the infection which hit Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos. PUNCH reported that some schools in the Lekki area of the state, had been shut temporarily, while pupils had been released for treatment. A source sai...
Just two years after three pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, died from water-borne infections, another related disease has broken out in the school. Our Correspondent gathered from some parents on Monday that no fewer than 700 pupils had taken permission to go home on health grounds. The school’s...
Six months after getting engaged during a romantic getaway in the Bahamas, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez celebrated their upcoming wedding with a lavish party in Los Angeles over the weekend. According to E! News, the event was held at singer Carole Bayer Sager’s Bel Air home, which was decora...
Three change makers in the areas of music, ecotourism and marine protection are the guests featured in this week’s edition of the Globacom-sponsored African Voices on the Cable News Network (CNN). The trio will tell viewers of the 30-minute weekly magazine programme how their concern for th...
Twenty students of the inaugural set of the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) West Africa Academy graduated yesterday after a full-year, tuition-free training in film and television production. The event took place at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, where the graduands received their certificates, wi...
