In its bid to tackle child abuse, the Lagos State Government has unveiled a child-friendly booklet – ”My Passport of Rights.” The unveiling was done through the state’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, on Wednesday. The Executive Secretary, DSVA, Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, said that the unveiling of the booklet...

Nigerians can now request their commercial banks to provide them with a debit card which doubles as their National Identity Card at no extra cost than the normal fees charged for debit cards. This is as the Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved a memo from the National Identity...

Senna alata (L.) Roxbury  Family: Fabaceae (Leguminosae)   Common names: candle bush, ringworm cassia, ringworm shrub, wild senna, craw-craw plant, ogaru– Igbo; asuwon oyibo – Yoruba. Synonym – Cassia alata. Senna alata is an erect shrub with a height of 3-4 m, which is distributed in the tropical and humid regions. The pinnately compound leaves are oblong and composed of 6-12 pairs of leaflets. They have a rounded tip with a slight indentation in the middle. Flowers have bright yellow...

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State and the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Al-Kanemi, have allayed fears that the protracted insurgency in the Chad Basin will hinder oil exploration there. They spoke on the heels of the flag-off of oil drilling campaign in Wadi-B prospect, Chad Basin, Tuba Community, Jere...

A former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency, Temisan Omatseye, has described the war risk premium on shipping as global fraud. Speaking at the Taiwo Afolabi Annual Maritime Conference in Lagos recently, he claimed countries kept paying the war risk premium without getting claims. “You do not...