By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with parents, relations and friends of Ojodu Grammar School students who lost their lives in an accident on Tuesday, along Isheri Road, Ojodu, in Lagos State. The president’s condolence message was contained in a statement released by his spokesman,...
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The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS) said that it remitted N118 billion into federal government coffers as at November with a projection of N202 billion in 2022. Acting Executive Chairman of the service, Mr Haruna Abdullahi, who revealed this to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, said the...
Tension appears to be building around the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) office in the Ojodu area of Lagos. This is coming a day after a trailer rammed into some students at the grammar school bus stop killing some of them. There are fears of violence breaking out in...
Several pupils have reportedly been killed by a hit-and-run truck driver along Ogunnusi Road, Grammar School bus stop, Lagos State. According to reports, the pupils were going home after closing from school and wanted to cross the road when the truck ran over them. The driver was said to...
Traditional leaders from Badagry Division of Lagos State has pledged support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The royal fathers pledged the commitment in Lagos in a communique issued at the end of a parley organised by the Lagos APC Chairman-elect, Mr Cornelius Ojelabi, for traditional...
The Police in Lagos on Sunday confirmed the death of eight children who mistakenly locked themselves in an abandoned car while playing at Adelayo Str., Agunlayo, Jah Micheal, near Magbon area of Badagry. The Spokensman for the Lagos Police Command, Mr Adekunle Ajisebutu, in a statement, said the incident...
The Agbara-Seme border section of Lagos-Badagry expressway project will receive N15 billion of NNPC tax credit fund, Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Olukayode Popoola, has said. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday that the intervention funding would fast track the ongoing reconstruction...
The Lagos State Police Command has commenced an investigation into the death of one Sylvester Oromoni of Dowen College, Lekki Area of the state. A statement issued by the command’s spokesman, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said that although no formal report had been made to it, the Commissioner of Police,...
The Lagos State Government has ordered the indefinite closure of Dowen College, following the death of Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a student of the school. This is pending the outcome of an investigation into the cause of the student’s death. The announcement was contained in a statement signed on Friday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday launched a mega-size empowerment package for thousands of constituents in Konduga town. The empowerment was sponsored by a member of House of Representatives representing Dikwa, Konduga and Mafa Federal Constituency, Engr. Mohammed Ibrahim Abubakar, popularly known...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called on youths to join him on Peace Walk, for healing of the state. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the call on Tuesday in Lagos, during a news conference on the State Government’s position on the recommendations of the Judicial...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Dr. Mohammed Abubakar has commissioned roads, drainages network as well as solar energy street light projects in Maiduguri city, the Borno State’s capital. The minister, who was epresented by the North East Zonal Director of FMARD,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that about 21 ships at the Lagos ports were discharging bulk wheat, general cargo, container, petrol, bulk sugar, base oil, frozen fish, bulk gypsum and bulk urea. NPA disclosed this in its publication, ‘Shipping Position’, which was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his third day of the commissioning tour of southern Borno, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was in Hawul LGA on Thursday, during which he commissioned five projects. At the commissioning of one of the five projects which is a secondary school owned by community...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – On his second day of commissioning tour in Southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday commissioned a skill acquisition centre and a secondary school in Kwaya Kusar Local Government Area. The governor, after passing Tuesday night at Biryel in Bayo Local Government also spent...
A yet-to-be-identified man and a woman suspected to be his wife, on Monday, escaped death by a whisker after ramming into two coffin shops around the Ikorodu General Hospital, in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the man was driving along the T.O.S...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned a new Model Secondary School in Gajiganna, Magumeri LGA, which was built and donated by The Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) and Total Energies Infrastructures Project as part of their Cooperate Social Responsibility. The Governor, who was...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said its operatives have arrested a 32-year-old drug trafficker based in Liberia, Maduabuchi Chinedu, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 9.30 kilograms of cocaine worth over N2.7 billion in street value. The NDLEA...
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has completed rehabilitation of two township roads in Ikorodu as part of its Federal Constituency projects in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two road projects were awarded to LRB Global Investment Ltd, and JRB Construction Co. Ltd. at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his first day of ongoing commissioning tour of 23 projects in southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum has commissioned a newly mega-size Government Day Technical Secondary School sited in Wuyo, Bayo Local Government Area of Borno State. He also commissioned three other projects in...