The federal government has flagged off the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative PCNGI, with seven conversion centres across Nigeria. Chief Of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajibiamila, officially flagged off the initiative yesterday at the State House, Abuja, reports Daily Trust. In a symbolic handover of the CNG buses to the State H...
•Boat accident The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service said it recovered two bodies of victims on board a capsized boat crossing from Olorunsogo to Isawo yesterday. The rescue service in a statement signed by its Deputy Affairs Public Affairs, Ololade Agoola, yesterday, said the bodies recovered were of two females identified as Misturat Okunb...
•CJN Olukayode Ariwoola The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, today said the Supreme Court now has 10 justices on its bench. According to him, with 10 justices on the bench, the Supreme Court has the lowest number of justices in history. The CJN spoke at the valedictory court session for Justice Musa Dattijo […]
At least 20 persons were injured following a tanker explosion at a filling station in the Rigasa area of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Wednesday. The victims who sustained varying degrees of injuries from the incident include five firefighters, men of the Kaduna State Vigilante Service, and passersby, reports The PUNCH. The [&...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) yesterday conducted a full-scale security emergency exercise at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. A statement by Mr. Abdullahi Yakubu-Funtua, the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, FAAN, said that the agency yesterday carried out a bomb threat simulation ex...
The House of Representatives yesterday mandated its committee on aviation to investigate the hike in international flight fares and poor service delivery by foreign airlines operating in Nigeria. This, it said , was to curb unwholesome practices by airlines and ensure that flight fares were at par with that of neighbouring countries, reports V...
•Nnamdi Kanu Justice A. O. Onovo of the Enugu State High Court, Thursday, declared the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra by the South-East Governors’ Forum as illegal, unconstitutional, and null and void. It was earlier reported that in 2017, the South-East Governors Forum, led by former Gov David Umahi of Ebonyi State, proscribe...
•Hadiza Usman and Rotimi Amaechi Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the immediate Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority, (NPA), Hadiza Usman of documenting false narrative in her book titled: “Stepping on Toes: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority.” Hadiza had in the book chronicled her emergence an...
•Blocked Benin-Agbor road Residents and truck drivers in Benin City, the Edo State capital, barricaded the Benin-Agbor Road, a situation that has brought vehicular movement along the road to a standstill. An articulated truck driver, who spoke to our correspondent, said the federal or state government should fix the road, insisting the road is...
•Speaker Obasa The Lagos State House of Assembly has made a call for the review of administrative guidelines for Local Governments (LG) and Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) in order to ensure effective governance in relation to societal advancement. The Frontier reports that the call, supported by Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, emphasises the...

