An unidentified person was burnt to death, and three others are currently in hospital, following gas explosion, involving three vehicles with Liquified Petroleum Gas, LPG, at GM Julee gas station, Anibaba in Iba New Site, by Iyana School-Isashi Road, Iba, Lagos. The incident, it was gathered, happened about 10pm Tuesday night. It was gathered ...
•Lagos Port access bridge The Lagos State government has announced that traffic will be diverted at the Ijora 7Up end of the marine bridge from February 2 to May 10. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, made this announcement in a statement recently. According to the commissioner, the decision to divert traffic is for compre...
•Tinubu Members of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and eminent citizens have questioned executives’ use of taxpayers’ resources for so-called private visits of the president and governors, describing it as an “abuse of office” and prodigal use of scarce resources. They decried the rate at which other public officers, top civil servants and ...
•Senate President Akpabio President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has bemoaned the worsening insecurity in the country, which he noted has put the nation’s capital territory under threat. He made the statement yesterday during the proposed security briefing of the Senate by security chiefs where the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Riba...
•Protesters Residents of Suleja in Niger State have taken to the street to register their displeasure over the high cost of living in the country. Today’s protest is coming after a similar protest in Minna, the state capital just two days ago, reports Channels TV. Suleja, the commercial nerve centre of Niger State, is only […]
•Senate The Senate has adjourned the quizzing of service chiefs over insecurity to Tuesday, February 13, 2024, to accommodate everyone involved in the management of security in the country. The security chiefs, who were present at the Senate chamber were billed to address the lawmaker on rising insecurity in the country today but the decision ...
•Catholic bishops The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province have raised an alarm over the state of Nigeria, stating that the country is in desperate need of restoration. In a seven-point communique issued at the end of their meeting, the bishops addressed issues of national and church interest, reports Daily Sun. The communique wa...
•Dethroned Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido A pressure group in Kano State has appealed to the State Assembly to review the law establishing the additional emirates of Gaya, Rano, Karaye and Bichi by the immediate-past administration of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The group, known as “Yan Dangwalen Jihar Kano” (the Kano Electorate) also pleade...
•Protest in Niger The ruling All Progressives Congress yesterday accused the leading opposition parties in the country of orchestrating the demonstrations that took place simultaneously in Kano and Niger states on Monday. But the Peoples Democratic Party denied the allegation, saying the protests were merely a reflection of the hardship in the...
•Fuel Scarcity Marketers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise called petrol yesterday expressed concerns over supply shortage from Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) as fuel queue surfaced in Abuja. Stations in some parts of the city were shut down as motorists spent longer time to refill their tanks to avoid petrol scarcit...

