Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola has set up a tribunal of enquiry into incessant collapse of buildings in Lagos State. The tribunal is chaired by Arch. Abimbola Ajayi, while other members are Mr. Joseph Adewale, Mrs. Roli Craig, Mr. Segun Adedeji, Mr. Moses Ogunleye and Architect Biodun Rufai. Inaugurating the tribunal at the State House, [...]
A pair of sandals formerly owned by India’s independence hero Mahatma Gandhi is to go under the hammer in Britain later this month. Auction house Mullock’s said the battered leather shoes, due to be sold on May 21, were expected to fetch up to £15,000 ($23,000, 18,000 euros) despite being “in a bad state”. The [...]
The concessioning of the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex (LITFC) to Aulic Nigeria Limited, will be reviewed, Mr Samuel Ortom, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, said. The minister said this in Abuja at a meeting with a committee raised to resolve a protracted dispute over the concessioning and business stakeholders operating [...]
Government of the Nigerian state of Lagos on Monday asked a Federal High Court to dismiss a suit challenging its plan to collect toll on the recently constructed Lekki-Ikoyi suspension bridge. The suit was filed by a human rights activist, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, challenging the legality of construction of a bridge on a federal navigable [...]
Minister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed said on Friday in Abuja that the territory would attract N500 billion from investment in the next couple of years under its Land Swap Policy. Mohammed, who disclosed this at a “Town Hall meeting on Land Swap Initiative’’, said the groundbreaking ceremony of the “Carraway Dallas [...]
Dozens of workers were found alive Thursday as they huddled in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory bloc in Bangladesh, a rare success for rescuers who have pulled out 256 bodies. In an announcement greeted by wild applause from thousands of relatives at the scene, an army spokesman initially announced that 40 survivors had [...]
The Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering, SCUML of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arrested officials of a real estate firm and two hotels in Abuja for non-compliance with extant regulations mandating Designated Non- Financial Institutions, DNFIs to register with the Unit in line with the anti-money laundering laws. Those arrested in [...]
