The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila won the Surulere I Federal Constituency election on Saturday. At around 6.04 p.m. on Sunday, Prof. Virgy Oneyene, the INEC Returning Officer for the constituency’s House of Representatives election, announced the results at INEC’s collation centre in Surulere. She claims that with 19,717 votes, Gbajabiamila of Read More…
More than 24 hours after the presidential and national assembly elections in Lagos State began on Saturday, not a single result from any of the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) has been sent to the State Collation Centre. At the official opening of the centre for final collation of election results in Lagos State at Read More…
Applicants are urged to pick up their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before the deadline of January 29. The INEC in Lagos State announced on Tuesday that it had received the final batch of PVCs in the state. In a statement issued in Lagos, Mr. Adebisi Ajayi, the INEC’s administrative secretary for Lagos State, revealed this. Read More…
The Lagos Mass Transit Blue Line Rail Project’s first phase was officially launched on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari. From Marina to Mile 2, the first phase is a 13-kilometer stretch with five stations: Marina Iconic, National Theatre, Orile-Iganmu, Suru-Alaba, and Mile 2. One of the six metro lines mentioned in the Lagos Rail Mass Read More…
A female police officer, Inspector Justina Omogbai, has been praised by IGP Alkali Baba for the professionalism she has shown while performing her traffic duties. CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, the FPRO, issued a statement on Tuesday in which the IGP expressed his praise. Baba lauded Omogbai, a member of the Traffic Unit at the Sabo Divisional Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday opened the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos. The President, along with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, inspected the entire complex. ”I declare this site open,” the President said. The urban redevelopment at the centre of Read More…
The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to push back the deadline for old naira notes to be withdrawn from circulation from January 31 to July 31. Additionally, the upper house requested the CBN to establish an exchange window where those without bank accounts may deposit their old bills. The motion made Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday opened a 32-metric tonne per hour Lagos Rice Mill in Imota, Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb, to boost Nigeria’s rice revolution. The Lagos Rice Mill, Imota is a two x 16 metric tonnes per hour mill on an 8.5-hectare piece of land. The project requires around 240,000 metric tonnes of paddy Read More…
To assist alleviate port congestion and position Nigeria as a transhipment hub for Africa, the country unveiled a Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday. The project cost $1 billion. President Muhammadu Buhari has made infrastructure development a cornerstone of his administration’s economic policy in the hopes that it will assist the governing party gain Read More…
Olympic champion Usain Bolt wants to get back more than $12.7 million that went missing from his account with a Jamaican investment firm. Bolt’s lawyer says Bolt is ready to go to court if that is what it takes to get the money back. Bolt was alerted last week that his account balance at Kingston-based Read More…
