Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr is excited to have Odion Ighalo back in the squad and could start against Cape Verde in Monday’s final group qualifier. Ighalo, a former Manchester United striker retired after the 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt and now plays for Al Shabab...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – FMDQ Securities Exchange Ltd. (FMDQ Exchange) has approved the listing of MTN Nigeria Communications (MTN Nigeria) N110 billion Series 1 Senior Unsecured Fixed Rate Bond on its platform. The Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria, Mr Karl Toriola, said this in a statement issued by...
No fewer than five persons have been confirmed dead in a gas explosion at Ladipo in the Mushin Local Government area of Lagos State. The explosion occurred on Tuesday morning at the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) domestic retail centre located on Ojekunle Street at the popular Ladipo Spare Parts...
The Super Eagles’ delegation to Saturday’s FIFA World Cup qualifier against Liberia in Tangier, Morocco flew into Lagos on Sunday morning aboard a chartered Air Peace flight, with team captain Ahmed Musa insisting they would best Cape Verde in their final group qualifier. The aircraft touched down at the...
The death has been announced of Paschal Onyinyechukwu Utomi. He was the son of Mr Jerome Utomi, a Public Affairs Analyst and Programme Cordinator, (Media and Public policy), Social and Economic Justice Advocacy (SEJA). Pascal was aged 13years and 10 months. According to a statement released by the group,...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has assured Nigerians of availability of petroleum products, allaying fears of possible scarcity in some parts of the country. IPMAN’s President, Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo, gave the assurance when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos....
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...
A former Managing Director of an aviation fueling company, Star Orient Nig. Ltd., Dare Osamo, and a lawyer, Bisola Olore, were on Wednesday arraigned in Ikeja for alleged N1.6 billion fraud. The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) filed an 11-count fraud charge against the duo before an...
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...
Two persons, including a soldier, identified as Sgt. G Abdullahi, have been burnt to death while pursuing a petroleum smuggler on motorcycle on Badagry-Seme border expressway. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident occurred at about 8:15p.m. last Saturday at Sitto area during a head on...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Former Lagos Governor and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, on the 15th anniversary of his ascension to the throne. He said since he ascended the throne in November 2006, the royal...
Some subscribers to the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos State, signed contracts ranging from over $500,000 (N206.5m) to over $3m (N1.24bn) for the purchase of luxury apartments in the high-rise from Fourscore Heights Limited, findings by our correspondent have revealed. Documents obtained by our correspondent showed that after...
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),...
Lagos State Government said on Friday that bodies recovered from the building that collapsed at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, are ready for identification by families. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, while giving update to newsmen at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building, said the bodies were...
The Apapa Area Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said it collected a total of ₦86.02bn as revenue for the month of October, despite initial glitches that slowed its operations The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Malanta Yusuf, gave the figure in a statement signed by Abubakar Usman,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The dead body of the developer of the collapsed 21-storey building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Mr Femi Osibona, was retrieved from the rubbles on Wednesday. A reliable source told newsmen Osibona’s body was among dead bodies exhumed from the collapsed building on Wednesday...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has introduced new measures to check security threats in the Nigerian maritime domain and prevent ships from entering the country illegally. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, made this known in a statement signed...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The death toll from a building collapse in Ikoyi Area of Lagos State rose to 36 on Thursday after more bodies have been retrieved by rescuers from the debris. The coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the state, Ibrahim Farinloye, said...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The NNPC Ltd on Wednesday said the gas pipeline that was reported leaking in the early hours of today around Anifowoshe area of Ikeja in Lagos State has been isolated and the general area cordoned off. The Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Garba...