Rescuers in Taiwan raced on Sunday to save more than 120 people still trapped under the rubble of a building after it collapsed during a powerful earthquake. Emergency workers worked around the clock to comb the ruins of the 17-storey building in southern Tainan city following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in the early hours of Saturday. As rescue operations continued, ...

Over 60 landlords in Abakaliki alone have been prosecuted for refusal to install toilet facilities in their houses, Premium Times reports. The Commissioner for Environment, Ogodo Nome, disclosed this in Abakaliki, the state capital. Also, over 138 persons have been arrested and prosecuted by the Ebonyi State Government for defecating in open places. Mr. Nome attributed the spread of most ...

Natives of the Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, have asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to immediately arrest the former Minister of FCT, Bala Mohammed, and top officials of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, and Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, over the Senate’s revelations that they illegally allocated land to their cronies in green areas within Maitama district extension ...

News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 1,500 women gave birth in 28 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno in 2015, the State Primary Health Care Management Board said on Sunday in Maiduguri. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Sule Mene, told NAN that the deliveries were recorded between January 2015 and January 2016. The women are ...

The Borno Government says it will offer nursery and primary school scholarships to 23,000 orphans taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Ahmed Satomi, the Chairman, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, disclosed this on Sunday in Maiduguri in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Mr. Satomi said the gesture was aimed at catering for ...

Last year, a product was launched giving hope to the emergence of modern dry construction in Nigeria. Therefore, it was a welcome development when one of our correspondents spoke to a consultant with vast experience in the dry construction method of building this past week. This article captures salient points that formed the basis of the discussion. Dry construction as ...

In a typical commercial Lagos household or even in Nigeria as a whole, Its normal for us to have minimum of 2 to 3 tenants in a decent compound. There are houses with 8 – 10 tenants which in any case doesn’t make them totally indecent. Our topic of discussion today is not the number of tenants allowed in a ...

Members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers have asked the Lagos State Government to create the office of a valuer-general in the state to help make real estate transactions easier. The Chairman, Lagos branch of NIESV, Mr. Offiong Ukpong, who led other members on a courtesy visit to the office of the Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau, said ...

Ikeja is an outer-ring suburb of the city of Lagos and capital of Lagos State. This article is the concluding part of what you should know about Ikeja. If you missed the first part of this article, click here  The history of the present Ikeja Local Government dates back to 1927 when the colonial government introduced tax collection. District Officers ...

The governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, appealed to the federal government to fulfill its commitment to the MKO Abiola International Airport, by making available its counterpart funds for the project. This is even as the minister for Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, promised that having seen the level of work at the Osun Airport, he would brief ...