Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday physically attended the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Osinbajo had undergone a surgical operation on July 16, at the Duchess International Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos. The vice president was later discharged on July 25 after successful surgery and recovery. On Aug. Read More…
EIGHTY-FOUR players from 15 states will be taking part in the maiden edition of LMK Under-15 Badminton Championship in Ilorin. The competition’s local organising committee (LOC) was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Kwara State Stadium Complex in Ilorin. Bola Mogaji, Executive Chairman of Kwara State Sports Commission, speaking during the inauguration, praised the Chief Executive Read More…
Wanted suspected cult member and two others have been arrested with the aid of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) installed in a restaurant in Lagos according to the police. The Lagos Police Command’s Spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the arrest in a statement on Tuesday. Hundeyin said that a suspected cultist, aged 22, was caught on CCTV Read More…
Dr Alex Otti, Labour Party’s Gubernatorial Candidate in Abia, has announced his running mate, Mr Ikechukwu Emetu, a 38-year-old engineer. Otti also inaugurated his Campaign Council, with a former House of Representatives member, Chief Nnanna Ngwu, as the Chairman. In a speech at the event in Umuahia on Tuesday, the governorship candidate said that Emetu Read More…
Lekki Phase 1 Residents, Lagos, have expressed their displeasure with plans by the Lagos State government to construct a ferry terminal in the area. Yomi Idowu, the Chairman of the Lekki Residents Association (LERA), on Tuesday in Lagos commented that the government had not informed it formally where the terminal would be sited. He said Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the heightened state of insecurity in the country is intensified by fake news and misinformation. The president who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Ahlaji Lai Mohammed, at a summit organised by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) titled “Summit for National Integration, Peace and Read More…
The United States is expected to return $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha to Nigeria, officials said at an event to sign the agreement on Tuesday. Nigeria has reached several agreements to return stolen cash in recent years. Abacha ruled Africa’s most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 until his Read More…
Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital has reacted to intelligence from a U.S. official by placing a ban on public festivities to mark its independence from Soviet rule this week, quoting heightened threats of attack of Russia to strike Ukrainian infrastructure in the coming days. Ukraine said Russia fired rockets into several towns north and west of Europe’s Read More…
Nigerian airline, Air Peace on Monday said it has handed some reward to Nigeria’s gymnastics sensation, Stephanie Onusiriuka. The airline announced on its twitter handle @flyairpeace that Onusiriuka had received the sum of one million Naira from its Chairman, Allen Onyeama, saying that the reward was for her outstanding performance at the recent African Club Read More…
The Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) Apapa Branch has appealed to the Lagos State Government to do everything within its power to make potable water readily available to residents. Mr. Christian Ufot, the NSE Apapa Branch Chairman made the appeal in Lagos on Monday when speaking at a news conference organized to announce activities lined Read More…
