A boat ferrying about 200 people capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi on Wednesday but the number of casualties remains unclear, a state spokesman said. The wooden boat capsized near Wara, a town on the shores of Kainji Lake, part of the Niger River, said Yahaya Sarki, a spokesman the governor of Kebbi. Read More…
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has commended the Old Girls Association of Queens School, Ede/Ibadan, for their initiative to immortalise the late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, popularly known as the Ebola Heroine, noting that she deserved the honour and even much more. Governor Sanwo-Olu gave the commendation at the launch of Read More…
…Urges South-West To Embrace Zonal Public Hearing Opportunities In picture above: L-R: Senator Olamilekan Solomon; Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Senator Ibikunle Amosun during the opening of the senate committee zonal public hearing on the review of the 1999 constitution at the Lagos Marriott Hotel, Ikeja, on Wednesday, May 26, Read More…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Mr Anofiu Elegushi on Sunday said 10,000 religious organisations, both Christian and Muslim, were captured in the government’s website. Elegushi made this known in Ikeja during the 2021 Ministerial Press Briefing to Commemorate the Second Year in Office of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. He said this was aimed at Read More…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru is feared dead in a plane crash. The details are quite sketchy but media reports say that he may have been aboard a Nigerian Air Force aircraft which is reported to have crashed in Kaduna. Attahiru is feared to have been killed alongside other military chiefs Read More…
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has partnered Amole, Ethiopia’s largest mobile digital wallet platform, to boost remittances. Flutterwave’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Olugbenga Agboola, said this in a statement in Lagos on Friday. Agboola said the partnership would facilitate money transfer into Ethiopia through Amole, to Amole Wallet, bank accounts and cash pickup Read More…
Trading on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) ended on a cautious note on Friday with key indices dropping marginally by 0.01 per cent. Specifically, the All-Share Index inched lower by 4.06 points or 0.01 per cent to close at 38,324.07 against 38,328.13 on Thursday. Also, capitalisation declined by two billion or 0.01 per cent to N19.975 Read More…
The Lagos State Government on Friday says it trained a total of 28,000 Lagos tertiary institutions final year students on entrepreneurship skills. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, said this in Lagos during the 2021 ministerial briefing in commemoration of Gov. Babajide Sanwo Olu, the second year in office. Wahab Read More…
Nigeria’s military is investigating reports that the leader of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may have been killed or seriously injured following clashes with rival jihadists, an army spokesman said on Friday. Abubakar Shekau has been the figurehead of an Islamist insurgency that has since 2009 killed more than 30,000 people, forced around Read More…
By Alexis Akwagyiram Ndukwe Ekekwe was furious when he heard how much compensation a judicial panel had awarded him after finding that members of an elite Nigerian police unit tortured him in custody following a raid on his phone accessories shop worth 7,500,000 naira ($18,000). The night after his arrest, he said, officers took him Read More…