The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority on Sunday reaffirmed that the travel cowry card remains the only acceptable means of payment for all state-owned transport systems. The Managing Director of LAMATA, Mr Kolawole Ojelabi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. This is following complaints by commuters that some…
This was disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Communications and Publicity, Office of the AGF, Kamarudeen Ogundele. According to the AGF, health was one of the priority areas of the administration of President Bola Tinubu. He said, “The law is something…
The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party has faulted the appointment of an interim chairman of the party in Gombe State by the Nigeria Labour Congress. The faction of the party frowned on the development and labelled it unacceptable. Also, the Julius Abure faction disclosed that it was not aware of the development, adding…
A duty solicitor recounted a harrowing experience where he was restrained by “four or five” court security staff, despite his plea that he couldn’t breathe. Defence solicitor Dele Johnson, speaking with The Law Society Gazette, described how guards pinned him down with their knees after he refused a security search request to remove his shoes….
President Bola Tinubu is expected to receive a report on the performance status of the Federal Government’s ministries, departments and agencies for the first quarter of 2024. Presidency sources with knowledge of the developments said the report will form the basis of the President’s assessment of his ministers. “What I know is that an interim…
Trade relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom have reached £7bn, British High Commissioner to Nigeria Richard Montgomery said on Sunday. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Montgomery announced that the two nations have signed a new agreement on enhanced trade and investment partnership. The agreement aims to boost…
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to hold nuclear weapons drills involving the navy and troops based near Ukraine, the defence ministry said Monday. Putin has upped his nuclear rhetoric since the Ukraine conflict began, warning in his address to the nation in February there was a “real” risk of nuclear war.“During the…
Billionaire, Arthur Eze, has urged Nigerians to support President Bola Tinubu while praising his inclusive approach to governance. He made the remarks in a video widely shared on social media, which showed him donating N20m to a church. Eze said, “Tinubu has no boundary. If you go to Abuja, you will see Wike, an Igbo…
Uchechi Kanu, the wife of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has hailed the the senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, for facilitating her visit to her husband at the facility of the Department of State Services in Abuja. During a live session on Radio Biafra on Sunday,…
The Tomato Crates Dealers Association of Nigeria has threatened to cut tomato supply to Lagos State over the alleged destruction of its goods. The association’s National Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Alaramma, stated this during a news briefing in Zaria on Sunday. Alaramma who is also the National Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle…
The mother of the late four-year-old Miguel Ovoke, who recently died at the BrickHall School located in the Cadastral Zone B11, Kaura, in Abuja, on Monday, stormed the school in the company of others to protest the death of her son. The mother of the deceased four-year-old Miguel protesting. The lady alleged that the school…
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Monday, promised to look into the insinuations that many indigenes of the state were forcefully evacuated from Lagos and dumped at Ilesa by officials of Lagos State Government. A statement by the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, said Adeleke had already spoken to his Lagos State counterpart,…