PM, Ministers detained The fragile civilian-military power sharing arrangement in Sudan seems to have come to an end as the military has effectively effected a coup d’etat. Agency reports say that soldiers on Monday arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet and many pro-government party leaders in an apparent military coup. This throws the Read More…
A Reuters report on Saturday says that gunmen attacked a jail in Nigeria’s Oyo State late on Friday and freed over 800 inmates by force, the third such major attack this year, according to a statement by the Nigerian Correctional Service. The prison service said the attackers were heavily armed and after an exchange of Read More…
20 per cent gas users in Lagos have switched to charcoal Many Lagosians are seeking alternatives to the now highly-priced cooking gas. This is a trend that is now taking place all over the country. The Chairman of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers (LPGAR), a branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Read More…
Nigerian authorities intercepted nearly half a million amphetamine pills hidden in machinery coming into a Lagos port, an official said on Thursday. The 451,807 captagon tablets were seized at the Apapa sea port in September, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Chairman Mohamed Marwa told reporters. “This was traced to have come from Lebanon,” he said. Read More…
THIRTY-FOUR persons were arrested by the police following the #EndSARS anniversary protest on Wednesday, The protest, which was to commemorate the one year anniversary of ENDSARS was carried out by a motorcade bearing protesters moving through the Lekki toll gate. The protest, which began at 8am and ended two hours later, was largely peaceful without Read More…
Britain’s 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth, who has reigned over her nation for almost seven decades, says she feels too young at heart to be awarded the title “Oldie of the Year”, an aide has revealed. Organisers of the annual tongue-in-cheek awards – whose previous recipients include Oscar-winning actors, Nobel laureates, and the queen’s own mother who Read More…
On 20th October 2021, organisers of the #EndSARS protests are planning a motorised memorial procession from the Lekki Toll Gate to commemorate last year’s bloody finale to agitations by youths against police brutality. According to one of the organisers, Folarin Falana, otherwise known as Falz the Bad Guy, in an Instagram post, the procession will Read More…
All things being equal the new jetty built at the Tin Can Island Port by the Federal Government will take two million commuters off the Lagos gridlock. This was made known on Saturday by the Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunimbe Mamora, who said that the inauguration of a jetty at the Tin Can Read More…
Lagos, Oct. 14, 2021 (NAN) The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said on Thursday that it had supported the Lagos State Blue railway line project with N60 billion to facilitate ease of businesses and passengers’ movements in the state. The Director, Development and Finance of the CBN, Mr Phillip Yusuf, disclosed during an inspection of Read More…
The Nigerian military has announced that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, leader of the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), is dead. “I can authoritatively confirm to you that Abu Musab is dead,” Lucky Irabor, the chief of defence staff, told reporters at the presidential villa in Abuja, without elaborating. According to a Reuters report, Read More…