•Tinubu leaves Lagos President Bola Tinubu has left Lagos for Abuja after a two-week break in the nation’s economic centre where he celebrated Eid al-Adha. Tinubu was accompanied to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other government officials. The president had during his stay received a ...
•Some rams at the Kara market awaiting buyers Our correspondent writes about how the rising costs of cows and other livestock affected buyers and sellers at the popular Kara cattle market along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and tempered the usual excitement that Sallah brings, reports Channels TV. It was the eve of the Eid-ul-Adha celebration an...
•Traffic A major gridlock on the Abuja-Kaduna highway yesterday caused many commuters travelling home for the Sallah holiday to spend hours on the road. It was gathered that some passengers spent about five to six hours on the journey which ordinarily should be about two and a half hours, reports Daily Trust. The gridlock which […]
•Ram sellers Hamza Saidu and Shehu Usman Hours to the 2025 Eid Al-Adha celebrations, cattle dealers at the Kara Cattle Market in the Isheri area of Lagos State have attributed the increase in the prices of rams to the flood that rocked Mokwa Local Government Area (LGA) in Niger State. Mokwa was hit by a […]
•Ram market Some ram traders in Lagos State have lamented the preference for cows to rams by Muslim faithful this 2025 Eid Kabir celebration. The traders disclosed this in separate interviews with our correspondent today in Lagos, reports NAN. The traders told our correspondent that most people prefer to buy cows than rams because of […...
•Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government has declared Friday, June 6 and Monday, June 9, 2025, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-ul-Adha celebration. In a statement issued today in Abuja, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Dr Magdalene Ajani, said the minister, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the decl...
•FCT minister, Nyesom Wike Abuja Muslim Forum, an umbrella body of the Muslim Organisations in Abuja, has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, to intervene in the interruption of water supply in the capital city. On Saturday, the FCT authorities announced an upgrade in the water supply, which may disrupt suppl...
•Ram market As Eid-el-Kabir approaches, many Muslims across Lagos and other cities are abandoning the tradition of slaughtering rams and are instead turning to more affordable options such as goats and chickens. Some are even skipping the sacrifice entirely. This shift is largely driven by the sharp rise in ram prices and the prevailing econom...
•Rams market As this year’s Eid al-Adha approaches, livestock dealers and buyers have expressed concern that rams and other sacrificial animals may become more expensive due to rising cases of rustling in parts of the North West and a recent livestock export ban imposed by the Niger Republic. Earlier in May, the Nigerien government temporarily...
•Tomatoes Prices of tomatoes and pepper in the North have continued to soar despite the items being in their season. The development has reached an alarming level such that residents say their prices have stripped them to bare bones, reports The PUNCH. Most of the residents further groan that the prices of pepper and tomatoes […]

