April 2024

The Lagos State Government said it arrested and prosecuted no fewer than 219 persons for crossing expressways in different parts of the state in March. The spokesperson for Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, Lukman Ajayi, revealed this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Ajayi said the offenders were arrested at…

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority Monitoring and Enforcement Team dislodged scavengers who recently erected illegal structures under the Falomo Bridge along the Nigerian Law School on Victoria Island. The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, in a post on X on Tuesday, said the structures were erected by scavengers who were…

Members of communities playing host to multinational organisations have been urged to leverage the presence of these companies for the advancement of their lives and that of their localities. This was the thrust of the lecture at the bi-annual community training for communities neighbouring Okomu Oil Palm Company PLC, according to a statement on Tuesday….

The Education Group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a conference to address the growing disparity between school curricula and industry needs in Africa, specifically Nigeria. A statement made available to The PUNCH on Tuesday said the African International Education Conference had the theme ‘Innovation, inclusion, collaboration for sustainable education.’ The CEO of POISE…

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders on Monday invaded the Federal University Wukari in Taraba State and abducted two students. The Chief Security Officer of the university, Mr. Sule Gani, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with journalists in Jalingo. Gani said a male and a female ex-students of the university who came to…

Senegal’s new President, Bassirou Faye, on Tuesday, urged “more solidarity” among African countries “in the face of security challenges” after being sworn in as the country’s youngest head of state. The PUNCH reports that President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja Tuesday for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of Faye. President Tinubu, who is the Chairman of…

Leaders of the Edo State All Progressives Congress held a meeting between Sunday and Monday a t the home of ex-governor Adams Oshiomhole to resolve the internal crisis that emanated from the party’s governorship primary. The meeting was attended by the APC governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa. Also in…

The Nigeria Army, 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, on Tuesday, said that it has handed over 441 pawpaw sized substance suspected to be cannabis sativa weighing 223Kg to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Ogun State Command . The acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations of the Brigade, Lt Mohammed Goni, stated this in a…

The Ondo State Police Command, on Tuesday, said it had not arrested anyone over the looting of a truck reportedly conveying some items suspected to be palliatives along Ondo-Akure Expressway. A truck was on Monday evening attacked by some residents of Akure, the Ondo State capital . It was gathered that the bus, which was…

The Federal Government and the International Criminal Police Organisation have commenced the process of extraditing a Binance chief, Nadeem Anjarwalla, who escaped from detention on March 22. Security agencies had in February arrested Anjarwalla and Tigran Gambaryan, two executives of the crypto-currency firm, Binance Holdings Limited, over alleged money laundering. They were detained in ‘a…

Five years after a near similar incident led to the killing of about 11 boys brigade and girls guide squad members, another similar skirmish was timely averted by the Gombe Police Command on Easter eve as youths in a mosque pelted the brigade squad with stones and other objects, destroying their drums and inflicting injuries…