In order to build a five-community network of roads in the Alimosho Local Government Area, the Lagos State Government has made a plea for cooperation in reclaiming the Right of Way (RoW). At a stakeholders meeting on Friday in Ikeja, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins, made the request. He Read More…
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EFCC re-arraigns Shasore on 14-count money laundering charge in Abuja
Olasupo Shasore, SAN, the former A-G of Lagos State, has once again been brought before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday on a 14-count money laundering charge, barely 24 hours after he was arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada at the Federal High Court, Lagos division, on a four-count charge Read More…
Court adjourns Maina’s action against Interior Minister, NCoS CG due to illness
On November 18, a Federal High Court in Abuja will issue its ruling in a lawsuit brought by Abdulrasheed Maina against Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola and Controller General (C-G) of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) Haliru Nababa. After Ibrahim Idris, counsel for Maina, and Abdulmumin Muhammad, counsel for the respondents, followed their procedures and presented Read More…
Epe LG boss cautions against indiscriminate dumping of refuse
On Friday, Ms. Surah Animashaun, Chairman of Epe Local Government in Lagos State, issued a warning to locals not to deposit trash in undesignated areas, particularly on the sides of the road. Animashaun issued the warning in an interview with the newsmen on Friday in Epe. She claims that seeing enormous amounts of trash along Read More…
Nollywood actors meet Lagos Speaker in support of BAT’23
To show their support for Sen. Bola Tinubu, the Progressive Coalition of Entertainers met with Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. The group, led by Mr. Saheed Balogun, visited the speaker on Friday at the compound where the assembly meets in Lagos. Obasa urged like-minded Nollywood actors, producers, and artists to Read More…
No deaths in NYSC HQ fire
No life was lost, according to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), when a fire broke out at its Abuja headquarters on Friday. This was said in a statement released on Friday by Mr. Eddy Megwa, Director of Press Relations. He said that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Federal Fire Service Departments put out Read More…
Court adjourns Fayose’s alleged N6.9 billion fraud trial to January 31
Ayodele Fayose’s alleged money laundering trial has been postponed by the Federal High Court in Lagos till January 31 and February 1. Due to a scheduling error, the case’s trial was originally supposed to continue on October 26. A new trial date was to be decided by the parties and set by the court. The Read More…
State House’s 2023 budget sees a 50% slash
The State House’s permanent secretary, Tijjani Umar, says that the N21.1 billion budget request for 2023 is N19.01 billion less than the N40.1 billion budgeted for that year. This information was made public by Umar on Thursday in Abuja when he appeared with other members of the State House’s top management team to defend the Read More…
Bayelsa Queens upset DR Congo’s TP Mazembe for first CAF Champions Women’s League win
In their second game in the ongoing CAF Women’s Champions League, Bayelsa Queens FC defeated TP Mazembe of the DR Congo to earn the necessary three points. The Nigerian champions got off to a strong start in the encounter on Thursday at the Grand de Stade Marrakech, Morocco, scoring in the fourth minute of play. Read More…
Nigeria, Cameroon commission multimillion-dollar bridge, border post
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Cameroonian counterpart, Paul Biya, opened a bridge between Nigeria and Cameroon on Thursday in Etung local government area. The bridge cost several million dollars. The bridge, which has two lanes and is worth approximately 44 million dollars, is situated at the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the communities of Mfum in the Read More…