•Pam (center) with Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board members The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission, Reverend (Dr) Yakubu Pam, has informed that the commission would commence the 2023 main pilgrimage exercise to Rome by the third week of January 2024. He made this known in Abuja recently, during a meeting with members of ...
A bus driver and his passengers were, yesterday, injured after his unpainted commercial bus, FKJ 366 XT, rammed into a loaded containerised trailer on outer Marina Road. They were, however, rescued by operatives of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), to a nearby hospital, reports The Guardian. Director, Public Affairs and Enligh...
•Yaba overpass bridge, Lagos Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has opened the Yaba Overpass Bridge. He promised that the other three on the Red Line route -Ikeja, Mushin and Oyingbo- will be opened before the end of the year, reports The Nation. Sanwo-Olu, who expressed joy about the bridge’ completion, noted that it would improve [&hell...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, has affirmed the elections of Senators Ali Ndume representing Borno South and Kaka Lawan, representing Borno Central. The three-member panel headed by Justice Biobele Georgewill held that the two appeals against the lawmakers lacked merit, reports Channels TV. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) h...
•Tinubu The House of Representatives has rejected the N4.79bn budgetary allocation for a presidential yacht contained in the N2.176trn supplementary budget for the 2023 financial year transmitted to it on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. In passing the supplementary budget on Thursday, the House moved the sum proposed for the yacht to student...
•Etekamba Umoren The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the appointment of Etekamba Umoren as a Resident Electoral Commissioner. The Senate yesterday confirmed the appointments of seven out of the 10 RECs forwarded to it by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, reports The PUNCH. The RECs whose appointments were confirmed are Umoren (Akwa Ibom)...
•NLC President Ajaero The maltreatment suffered by the leadership of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero in the hands of thugs in Imo State has continued to elicit anger amongst all trade unions. Ajaero was said to have been beaten hopelessly by those they described as political thugs while fighting the cause of the […]
•Minister of Labour and Employment, Solomon Lalong The President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW ), Comrade Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa has again called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call the Minister of Labour and Employment, Solomon Lalong to order no to truncate the October 2, 2023 Labour and federal government [&he...
•Medical doctors Former Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed worries about the manpower crisis that might befall Nigeria soon with the spate of exodus of medical doctors and other health care professionals for foreign practice, thus challenging the government to take urgent measures to forestall the imminent crisis. He, howev...
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has advised pilots and airline operators to be cautious of hazardous weather due to the onset of the dry season. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) in its latest release alerted the public on the possibility of a decline in visibility as a result of observed dust haze propagated into [&hellip...

