•Rufai and Onuesoke A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described critics of Arise Television’s presenter, Rufai Oseni as people who are ignorant of the potentials the ace interviewer possess. He pointed out that Oseni’s prowess...
Not fewer than eight persons, among them students, were crushed to death when a tipper conveying sharp sand suffered break failure in Mpape, a settlement close to the Maitama District of Abuja. The incident, it was gathered, occurred yesterday around 4 p.m. before the Keke NAPEP Park along the road that leads to Mpape junction, […]
•Akpabio Joint unions in Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), have kicked against the announcement by Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the President of the Senate, referring to some members of the agency’s board as executive board members. The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) and Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil ...
•Emefiele Justice Adegbola Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, has ordered the unconditional and immediate release of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Adeniyi made the order after Emefiele filed a Motion Ex-parte, seeking his release from the custody of the Economic and...
•Lagos PPRO Hundeyin A 34-year-old man identified as John has died after drowning in the Elegushi Beach, in Lagos State, on Saturday, during a church hangout. It was gathered that the unnamed Ikorodu-based church had organised a picnic for its youths which the late John was a part of, reports The PUNCH. It was gathered […]
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...
•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...
•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...