Katsina State Government says it has spent N2.5 billion on constituency electrification projects across the 34 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state under the 2021 financial year. This is contained in the 2022 Katsina government budget proposal document, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Government has concluded plans to commence the 2021 Africa Industrialization Day/Young Africa Industrialization Week to commemorate international Africa Industrialization Day. The state Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives (MCIC), Dr Lola Akande, made this known in a statement, signed by Mr...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Taskforce have crushed about 482 motorcycles that were impounded on restricted roads across the state. The move according to the police taskforce would served as a deterrent to other potential traffic offenders. The police spokesman, Mr. Adekunle Ajisebutu, who disclosed this...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has pledges to fix the moribund facilities at the Obudu Ranch Resort before December 2022. As an indigene of the area, the governor said failure to fix the resort before exiting office will amount to injustice against himself and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In an effort towards ending open defecation in Borno State, the General Manager, Rural Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Engr. Dr. Mohammed Aliyu has disclosed that about 66,570 people have so far gained access to safe toilet and sanitation facilities through the...
The United States on Tuesday said it was looking forward to a response from the Lagos State Government after the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry submitted its final report. The panel was commissioned by the state government to look into the events of October 2020, including the shootings...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), LITE Africa with financial support from European Union through ECOWAS management of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Nigeria (SALW Action), have commissioned three projects in Bakassi LGA and Calabar Municipal Council Cross River State. Among the projects includes –...
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters has concluded that the Nigerian Army shot and killed unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020. The Panel’s findings were disclosed in its report issued on Monday. According...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday, granted a N10 million bail to a 43-year-old businessman, Afamefuna Udensi, charged with alleged importation of fake Tramadol. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant is being prosecuted by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and...
Lagos State Government and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO-UN) have signed a 200,000 dollars Unilateral Trust Fund Agreement (UTF) for development of coconut value chain. Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, signed the agreement on behalf of the state government, while the Country...
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has charged the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) to ensure the safety and profitability of Nigeria’s N12.8 trillion pension assets. Mrs Toki Mabogunje, President, LCCI, gave the charge while speaking at the PENCOM Special Day at the 2021 Lagos International Trade Fair...
The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum on Thursday laid the foundation stone of 2,275 length township road and drainage system in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state. The construction work is to be handled by Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (Newmap) which is being funded jointly...
The President of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF), Ibrahim Aladi, has reiterated the Federation’s commitment to scout for new talents for the national team, that would represent the country in international competitions. The president told Journalists on Thursday, in Abuja, that constant competitions were the best avenues for discovering...
Operatives from the Lagos State Police Command have arrested no fewer than 108 suspects for allegedly impersonating men and officers of the Nigerian Navy in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said the suspects were arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Ogudu-Sanfield...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos + Rescue workers have recovered two more bodies from the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos State. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos, Gbenga Omotoso, who confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday disclosed that the death toll from the...
The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola, has said his ministry is fine tuning modalities for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to mobilize funding for the Badagry Expressway project. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that the highway would henceforth...
The Lagos State Government has said 29 families have submitted samples for DNA to identify bodies evacuated from the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi area of the state. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, said in a statement that the identification of bodies had continued at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has said it would continue to enhance border cooperation with neighboring Niger Republic, particularly in the area of peace and security, economic and infrastructural development. Governor Babagana Zulum stated this on Monday in Maiduguri, while declaring open The Local Bilateral...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on industries, Sen. Adetokunbo Abiru (APC-Lagos East), on Monday organised a capacity development training for 1,000 Micro-, Medium- and Small-Enterprises (MSMEs) in Lagos East Senatorial District. Aburi, in a statement by Mr Seye Oladejo, the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...