Operatives of the State Security Service, SSS, have rescued a 6-year old girl from her abductors after she spent 13 days in captivity in Benin City, Edo State, South-South Nigeria. Briefing journalists after the rescue, the Edo State Director of the SSS in Benin City, Mr. Baba Tukur Bello Bakori, stated that they received a [...]
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has declared that henceforth the state government won’t sponsor people on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem. He stated this yesterday during his state of the state address held at the Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta. He was responding to a question from one of the representatives of a Muslim [...]
It was drama yesterday evening at the Lagos State House of Assembly when one of the nominees for the cabinet of Lagos State ended up blessing the lawmakers with prayers while being screened. Ben Akabueze, the immediate past Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, had come into the chambers for the exercise after some other [...]
The Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit this morning swooped on area boys at Oshodi and Alausa area of Lagos , South West Nigeria and arrested 217 of them. At least, 192 area boys were arrested at Oshodi while another 23 were arrested at Alausa. The street urchins included men, boys [...]
Contrary to the position of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State that he was not interested in probing the administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the ruling party in the state, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said that it is interested in probing the eight years of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Speaking [...]
The petition challenging the election of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Hakeem Abiodun Muniru representing Oshodi/Isolo Federal Cosntituency 2, filed by the candidate of African Liberation Party, Dimeji Muse Awojobi, has been adjourned till next month. Awojobi, in a petition filed before Lagos State Election Petitions Tribunal by his counsel, Chief Chinedu Moore, alleged [...]
In a bid to recover a debt of N13.093 billion from Shell Petroleum Development Company, West Multi Purpose Cooperative Society Limited and United Bank for Africa Plc have dragged the company that owed so much money to the detriment of other funds users before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Also joined as co-defendant is [...]
