A heavy rain that fell on Friday night and Saturday morning has left hundreds of homes and roads flooded in Nigeria’s affluent neighbourhoods of Ajah, Ikoyi, Lekki and Victoria Island areas of Lagos State. Lekki Phase I, all the way down to Lekki Free Trade Zone, and Ajah were severely affected
Month: July 2017
Down pour in lagos causes serious flood in lekki phase 1
Over 35 migrants feared drowned off Libya coast
Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank on Saturday off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard, said Issa al-Zarrouk, a coastguard official in Garabulli, 60 kilometres (40 miles) east
Ask Larry
Ask Larry email: [email protected], [email protected] _____________________________________________________________ Some friends and former colleagues have for some time inundated me with entreaties to take up a newspaper column and talk about logistics issues. Well, I didn’t think there are enough topical issues to talk about on Logistics. Logistics is not fashion, music, arts, sport or any
How To Protect Yourself From Rising Airport Luggage Theft
With the summer travel season is in full swing, it’s time to consider an unglamorous irritant: luggage theft. Thanks to Osama Bin Ladin and other terrorist threats, resources from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to local police have been deployed to protect travelers in airports across the United States and the
Ogun auto crash kills baby, mother, eight others
Scene of the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu accident AN auto crash on Thursday morning claimed 10 lives along Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu Expressway, leaving five others critically injured. The accident involved a white Mazda passenger bus travelling from Sango Ota end of Ogun State to Ijebu-Ode and a Mack truck at Ibara area, due to alleged reckless driving
FRSC to standardize driving schools
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it will standardize operations of driving schools through the introduction of Driving School Standardisation Programme (DSSP). Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the national workshop for operators of driving schools in Nigeria, FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi said prior to the introduction of the DSSP,
Arik Air Set to resume flight Operation …..
....Launches Customers Satisfaction Unit Arik Air is set to resume daily flight operations on Abuja-Accra route, beginning from Monday, July 17, 2017 after months of absence. Arik Air, the erstwhile largest carrier in West Africa was takenover by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in February, when its showed signs
Qatar Airways just got an exemption from Trump’s laptop ban
DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Airways said on Thursday that passengers traveling to the United States can now carry their laptops and other large electronics on board, ending a three month in-cabin ban on devices for the Doha-based airline. Qatar Airways joins Emirates, Turkish Airlines and Etihad Airways who have also announced
Kenya Railways delays the launch of Inter-County train service
Kenya Railways has announced that the inter-county train service by Madaraka Express which was scheduled to commence on Saturday, July 1, 2017 has been delay due to handover issues. According to KR Managing Director Atanas Maina, plans have been hampered by the late arrival of some of the operator’s key staff,