Year: 2017
18 states yet to establish traffic management agencies – FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged state governments that have yet to establish their traffic management agencies to…
Fuel scarcity: IPMAN threatens showdown with NNPC
Independent petroleum marketers in Lagos State have threatened to withdraw their services from Dec. 11 over NNPC’s breach of bulk…
INEC creates additional 370 CVR centres
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has approved the creation of additional 370 Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) centres…
ASUP suspends strike
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has on Wednesday announced the suspension of its 15 day-old strike it embarked…
Public-private sector collaboration will boost food production – Mrs Osinbajo
The Wife of the Vice-President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, has called for more public-private sector collaboration in efforts to boost food…
HIV: UNICEF, Kaduna government to screen 4,343 youths
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with Kaduna State Government has screened 4,343 youths for HIV/Aids in Jema’a Local…
FG declares Friday public holiday for Eid-El-Maulud
The Nigeria's federal government has declared Friday as public holiday to mark the Eid-El-Maulud celebration.
120 youths renounce cultism in Lagos
No fewer than 120 youths on Wednesday renounced membership of different cult groups and surrendered their weapons on Wednesday at…
RMD, Said Balogun, Others For Aristocrat Clothing Launch
Sunday, December 3, 2017, the official launch of the Aristocrat Clothing Store owned by celebrity journalist turned fashion designer, Kayode…
Lagos And The Journey Towards 2020
In Lagos State, the challenge of development is faced in the context of global economic impact as well as its…
Obaseki budgets N146 billion for 2018
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Wednesday presented the 2018 budget of N146 billion to the State House of…
Osinbajo’s wife tells corps members to embrace agriculture
Mrs Oludolapo Osinbajo, wife of the Vice President on Wednesday urged corps members to key into agriculture to boost Federal…
APC Germany Visits Nigerian Ambassador
The All Progressive Congress (APC), Germany Chapter has paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Alhaji Yusuf…
10,000 Edo indigenes trafficked in a year – Obaseki
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Wednesday, said no fewer than 10,000 indigenes of the state were trafficked in the…
APC Germany condemns slave trade in Libya
The All Progressive Congress (APC), Germany Chapter has condemned in strong term the dastardly treatment being meted out to black…
Lawyer, 2 others arraigned over attempt to take over dead man’s property
Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit,PSFU at Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, have arraigned a legal practitioner, Wilson…
Slavery: Reps to investigate auctioning of black Africans in Libya
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to liaise with the Libyan Government for a solution to the…
Court Rules FOI Act Applicable to Lagos State
A Lagos High Court, sitting in the Ikeja Judicial Division, has ruled that the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011…
FG suspends DG SEC, two others over fraud allegation
The Federal Government on Wednesday suspended the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, to allow for…
Govt insincerity responsible for unstable power supply – Expert
An electricity expert, Mr Omorodion Solomon Uwaifo has blamed the current unstable power supply in the country on the insincerity…
Nigerian Govt flags-off school feeding programme in Jigawa
The Federal Government has flagged off its Home-Grown School Feeding Programme with 726,033 Primary One to Primary Three pupils in…
Nigeria needs $2,900bn for infrastructure development – Former minister
Former Minister of Budget and Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, said about 2,900 billion dollars was required for Nigeria’s infrastructure development…
Lagos Launches Coding Centres in two schools
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday launched two Coding Centres set up by 9mobile for CodeLagos, an initiative of Lagos…
North-East: 8.5m persons need life-saving support – UN
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) says over 8.5 million persons are in dare need of…
Lagos PDP Congress undemocratic – Chieftain
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr Dipo Olorunrinu, on Wednesday described as undemocratic the…
800 benefit from FMBN N7bn loan in 2017
The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) on Wednesday said it disbursed more than N7 billion loan to 800 beneficiaries…
How to achieve stable power supply in Nigeria – Engr. Uwaifo
Mr Omorodion Solomon Uwaifo can be described as an elder statesman in engineering and a walking encyclopaedia in electricity issues.…
Royal Fathers: FCTA to review allowances, salaries
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration said that it is set to review the allowances and salaries of traditional rulers…
No place for ghost workers – Gov Ortom
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has vowed to fish out ghost workers in the state’s public service and reduce the…
Al-Makura presents N122.8bn budget for 2018 fiscal year
Gov. Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Wednesday presented a budget proposal of N122.8 billion for 2018 fiscal year to…