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http://ift.tt/2s7hnBu Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Saturday said his administration was determined to protect children from abuse or molestation in order to safeguard their future while preparing them for the challenges of life. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Saturday said his administration was determined to protect children from abuse or molestation in order to safeguard their future while preparing them for the challenges of life. Ambode, who was represented by his deputy, Dr Idiat Adebule, said this in Lagos at the 2017 Children’s Day Celebration organised by the Ministry of Education as part of activities to mark the Lagos at 50 anniversary. The theme of the Children’s Day celebration was “ Children of Today, Our Keepers Tomorrow.’’ “ We must protect these children today so that they can protect us tomorrow. ”It is a double celebration for us all in the state. It is children’s day and Lagos at 50 celebration. ”I was a child like you 50 years ago an...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Chinyere Joel-Nwokeoma – Some financial experts on Thursday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure the 14 banks banned to see through their punishment. The experts, who spoke in Lagos, said that the ban would curb banks’ excesses, round-tripping, inflation and the continuous depreciation of the nation’s currency. Prof. Sheriffadeen Tella, Prof. of Economics, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, in Ogun said the ban would check activities of banks if the CBN could ensure they go through the punishment. Tella said most of the banks had been involved in round-tripping because they get forex from CBN and resell same to the black market. He said that the action was responsible for the rapid depreciation of the Naira, capital flight and inflation. “If some banks are banned and seen to have been properly punished, others will be careful,” Tella said. Dr Uche Uwaleke, the Head of Banking and Finance Department, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, desc...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The US Air Force test-launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California early Wednesday, the military said. Air Force Global Strike Command spokesman Joe Thomas told AFP from California that the test was routine and not meant to be a show of force in the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile program. The Minuteman III missile blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 0702 GMT, the strike command said in a statement. The missile traveled some 4,200 miles (6,700 km) and went down near a Pacific Ocean atoll that is part of the Marshall Islands and features a US military ballistic missile test site. The Minuteman III, capable of being fitted with a nuclear warhead, is tested like this about four times a year, said Linda Frost, also a spokeswoman for the strike command. Air forces photos of the launch show bright, roaring flames at the moment of liftoff, then a pale, slender, orange trail against the night sky as...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Eight migrants, five of them children, have died of thirst in the Niger desert while making their way to Algeria, a key destination for would-be migrants to Europe, a security source told AFP. “These migrants died of thirst on the way to Algeria,” the source, who asked not to be identified, said late Tuesday. The group, a man, a woman and five children aged between six and 12, “were abandoned by a smuggler” and “all died of thirst”, he added. Online news site Air-info, which is based in northern Niger, said the eight were part of a larger group headed for Algeria, and that four men who had been rescued were found “completely dehydrated”. Last June the bodies of 34 migrants were found in the desert, while in late 2013 a group of 92 Niger citizens, including many women and children, also died of thirst after being abandoned by smugglers. Several thousand Niger citizens living illegally in Algeria have been expelled since 2015 following a deal between the govern...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Abuja – The Raw Materials and Research Development Council (RMRDC) says Nigeria will be hosting ApiExpo 2018, the biggest bee keeping event in Africa to improve the industrialisation of honey production in the country. Mrs Theresa Omara-Achong, the Deputy Director, Wood Product Division, made the disclosure in an interview in Abuja on Tuesday. Omara-Achong, who is also the Committee Chairperson on Bee Keeping Project in the country, said that the expo would attract investors, farmers, industrialists in bee keeping, honey production across the continent and beyond. “In September 2016, we were in Kigali, Rwanda, for ApiExpo 2016, we went for the expo and also to bid to hold the next one in Nigeria and we won the bid. “ApiExpo 2018 is holding in Abuja from Sept. 18 to Sept. 22. “We need to work hard because we did not want a situation where these other countries will bring in their honey, show off and we will not be in that space. “We need to be there because w...