The weekend began the sealing of suspected substandard buildings in the state. Officials of Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) on Saturday sealed off several buildings in Ikeja area for breaching the building control laws of the state.
Some other structures suspected to have changed the residential approval granted to them and converted for commercial use were also served notices to present their documents within 48 hours for regularisation.
LASBCA General Manager, Ms. Abiola Kosegbe, who led the enforcement team to parts of Ikeja, said structures found to …
This time, the board members are at daggers drawn among themselves following a four-year deal the AFN signed recently with Germany-based sports kit manufacturing company, Puma.
Puma’s Senior Manager Corporate Communications, Robert-Jan Bartunek, had confirmed recently that the agreement with
The Edo Police Command has denied reports of a robbery attempts at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Benin.
DCP Ayoola Ajala, Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, said that it was not true that there was a robbery attempt at the bank.
He said that the incident had to do with some cultists who were being chased around the Museum area of the city and trying to escape through Akpakpava road where the CBN is situated.
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GHANA is moving fast at scaling up its cocoa value chain and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Tuesday presented what he described as ‘Ghana Chocolate’ to more than 2000 delegates at the African Investment Forum (AIF) holding in South Africa’s city centre in Johannesburg.
He said that other African producers of cocoa, especially Nigeria and ivory Coast, could enjoy cocoa boom and enhanced value chain.
In the last three days, proud President Akufo-Addo has been all over the Sandton City Convention Center venue of the African Development Bank (AfDB)-organised conference clinching big-ticket infrastructure financing deals from global investors.
The Tuesday …
“France is fully engaged at the side of DRC to fight armed groups which are destabilising the country”, some of which are linked to the Islamic State group, Macron told Tshisekedi during a meeting in Paris.
Roger Federer said he had “flushed away” the pain of his defeat in the Wimbledon final as he prepares for a rematch against Novak Djokovic after keeping alive his hopes of a seventh ATP Finals crown on Tuesday.
The Swiss put himself back into the mix at the end-of-season event with 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 win against Italian debutant Matteo Berrettini.
The third seed had put himself under enormous pressure by losing his first round-robin match in Group Bjorn Borg on Sunday to Dominic Thiem.
The six-time champion was not
The progress on visa openness in Africa follows growing momentum for greater integration between countries and signals that policymakers across the continent are pushing reforms, making it easier for African businessmen and women, investors, students and tourists
