•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...
A housewife, Shakirat Ayinla, pleaded with an area court at Centre-Igboro in Ilorin today to grant her prayer for divorce on grounds of two years of childlessness. Ayinla told the court that her husband, Jimoh, no longer loves her, reports NAN. “I have made up my mind over this matter. I want a divorce,” she […]
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has reacted to reports on decomposing bodies in Abia. Obi said the discovery of dead bodies in Abia State shows the level of insecurity in Nigeria. “It unearths how insecurity has continued to ravage many parts of the […]
•Ajaero Medical experts at the Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, are currently battling to save the eyes of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. Ajaero was said to have been arrested by men of the Imo State Police Command while leading a protest in the state yesterday, reports The PUNCH. But the […]
The Senate will today Thursday, pass the N2.18 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded to it for consideration by President Bola Tinubu. As requested by Tinubu in the letter read in the Senate during plenary on Tuesday, the request was given expeditious consideration, reports The PUNCH. The budgetary proposals made in the bill...