The United Bank of Africa (UBA Group) is donating money and relief materials to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, following an announcement of a N5 billion($14 million) donation on Thursday.
Neusroom can confirm that at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Monday morning, many people looking to travel out of the country are stranded.
Until a visit to the Abule-Ado community, it is easy to dismiss the extent of residents’ loss as little, especially as the world – and – Nigeria – is focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents of Abule-Ado, a community near FESTAC in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, woke up to a deafening explosion on the morning of March 15, 2020 after a truck crashed into gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant.
Bobby Benson became a master in playing the guitar, piano and saxophone, and in the early ‘40s, he made his entertainment debut with the Negro Ballet in London.
The period of slave trade in Badagry is one of the darkest periods in African history, as about 500,000 men, women and children were shipped across the Atlantic as slaves.
For those who knew Clifford Nwa Orji as a razor blade seller at the bustling Oshodi market, they’d never have imagined he’d turn out to be a deadly man eater.