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City Transport Metro Top Story Traffic

Lagos BRT boards 350m passengers in 7 years

Fola Tinubu, Managing Director, Primero Transport Service Limited, in an interview in Lagos on Friday has claimed that the company has transported over 350 million passengers in the last seven years of its operation. He applauded commuters for their dedication, saying they had stood by the company over the past seven years of its operations. Read More…

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Insecurity Metro Top Story

Police warn against rally at Lekki Toll Gate on Oct 1

On Friday, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, released a statement reminding Lagosians that no rally or gathering of any sort will be allowed at the Lekki toll gate on Saturday, Oct. 1. The PRO took to Twitter, using the State Command official Twitter page @LagosPoliceNG to make the Read More…

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Business Manufacturing Top Story

UK engineering forum teams with Nigerian engineers on manufacturing and export

Mr. Oladapo Sulu, President, Engineering Forum of Nigerians (EFN), United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday has promised to team up with local manufacturers and engineers to increase access to markets abroad and boost export. The EFN-UK President pledged this at a hybrid monthly seminar organized by the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE), with the theme: Read More…

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Crime Medical Negligence Metro

Police investigates boy’s death after injections

The Police Command in Lagos has begun an investigation into the death of a young boy who died after some injections had been supposedly administered to him in a hospital in Ogombo area of Lagos. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, confirmed the situation on Thursday. Hundeyin said that the Read More…

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Metro Physical Planning

LASG seeks better conduct of physical planning and building control appeals

Mr. Mukaila Sanusi, the spokesman for Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, has on Thursday entrusted the Lagos State Physical Planning and Building Control Appeals Committee to develop strategies to restore sanity in the construction sector. Sanusi stated that the ministry’s commissioner, Mr. Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins, had given the advice at the opening Read More…

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Entertainment Media Top Story World

Comedian Trevor Noah to leave ‘The Daily Show’ after seven years

Comedian Trevor Noah, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, said he was going to leave the programme after hosting it for seven years, indicating he wanted to dedicate more time to stand-up comedy. The 38-year-old comedian – who moved to the United States in 2011 and was born in Johannesburg, South Africa Read More…

Education Metro Orile-Agege

LCDA boss donates 1,000 furniture items to schools in Orile-Agege

Some primary and junior secondary schools in Orile-Agege have taken delivery of no fewer than 1,000 pieces of furniture donated to them by the Orile-Agege Local Development Council Area (LCDA). Mr. Johnson Babatunde, Executive Chairman of the LCDA, told newsmen while making the donation of chairs and tables on Thursday that the gesture was borne Read More…

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Nigeria Policy

The elite has great role to play in protecting Nigeria – Lai Mohammed

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, in his welcome address at the 62 years Independence Public lecture in Abuja on Thursday, has said that the elite has a great role to play in protecting the nation, Nigeria, given the issue of restoration of peace in parts of the country. The “Elites and National Unity” lecture, was organised by Read More…

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Banking Business Top Story

Banks’ USSD debt increases to N80bn – Telecom operators

Banks’ Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) debt has increased to N80 billion from the N42billion reported in 2021 the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has said. Mr. Gbenga Adebayo, the President of ALTON, divulged this at the ICT Growth Conference 2.0 organised by the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA), on Thursday in Lagos. Read More…