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Metro Top Story Traffic

LASG announces another traffic diversion at Onikan during APC women rally on Wednesday

The Lagos State Government has issued a traffic advisory ahead of the APC Women’s Rally slated for Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at Mobolaji Johnson Arena (Old Onikan Stadium), Onikan, Lagos Island, to assist the motoring public in managing their routes around the axis during the event. According to a statement signed by Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, Read More…

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Nigeria Politics Top Story

Peter Obi promises overhaul of currency market and subsidies cut

If elected in February, the Labour Party (LP) contender for Nigeria’s presidency, Peter Obi, would reform the country’s expensive subsidy system and unify the numerous exchange rates of the local naira currency, according to his manifesto unveiled on Sunday. Nigeria has various exchange rates, allowing certain corporations to obtain dollars at a low cost while Read More…

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Nigeria Top Story Travel

Nigeria resumes Abuja-Kaduna troubled train service

The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) restored the once-embattled train service between the capital Abuja and Kaduna on Monday, which had been stopped since March when gunmen killed passengers and abducted dozens. Northern Nigeria has been besieged by armed gangs that have targetted villages and highways and kidnapped people for ransom, as well as a long-running Read More…

Business Environment Legal Oil & Gas Top Story

Supreme Court allows Shell to appeal decision delaying sale of assets

In a case that has delayed the corporation’s sale of its onshore assets, Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday permitted Shell Plc’s local business to appeal a decision ordering the company to pay $1.8 billion in damages for an alleged leak. Until the court issued a decision regarding an appeal filed by its subsidiary Shell Petroleum Read More…

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Metro Travel

Lagos issues travel warning ahead of launch of APC guber campaign

In advance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Campaign scheduled on Saturday, December 3, the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, has issued a travel warning for Lagos residents. The flag-off will take place at Mobolaji Johnson Arena (formerly Onikan Stadium), Onikan, Lagos Island, according to a statement released by Oladeinde on Friday in Read More…

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Corruption Legal Nigeria Top Story

Nigeria’s $11 bln London P&ID trial will expose corruption, court told

A British attorney for Nigeria in a lawsuit in London’s courts where $11 billion is at risk predicted on Friday that the trial will expose “on an industrial scale” corruption among British attorneys as well as Nigerian authorities. The dispute is related to a contract for a gas project that Nigeria gave to Process and Read More…

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Ethiopia Featured Notes Owei Lakemfa World

Tigray-Ethiopia: Writing a bloody peace in hopelessness

Ethiopia, which along with Liberia were the only two African countries Europe was unable to colonise, has been bathed in blood many times in the last six decades until a bloody peace was written on November 2, 2022. A civil war with Eritrea which was then part of Ethiopia exacerbated the 1983-85 Ethiopian Famine resulting Read More…

Elections Nigeria Top Story

We will continue to purge the INEC registry of underage voters – Yakubu

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, declares that the commission will continue to purge the voter’s list to prevent minors and ineligible voters from casting ballots. At a Friday interactive session with journalists in Lagos, Yakubu revealed this. “We are making efforts to make sure we eradicate underage voting and also Read More…

Budget Business Ikorodu Politics

Ikorodu LG consults on 2023 budget, pledges to do more

Mr. Wasiu Adesina, the chairman of the Ikorodu Local Government, has reassured the locals of his administration’s commitment to bringing them more development projects and democratic dividends. At the stakeholders meeting for the local government’s 2023 budget held on Friday in Lagos at the council secretariat in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Adesina made the guarantee. In Read More…