Long queues built up in filling stations across Lagos State on Friday, creating fears of impending fuel scarcity. Our correspondent, who went around the city, gathered that the queues in some of the filling stations affected the free flow of traffic. At the AP filling station in Alapere, commuters were held in traffic on Friday…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday convicted controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky for abusing the Naira. Justice Abimbola Awogboro convicted him after the review of the facts of the case. In his allocutus, Bobrisky told the court that he was not aware of the law on abusing the naira. He…
The Governor of Ondo State, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, will today (Thursday) submit his Nomination and Expression of Interest forms as a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed November 16 for the Ondo State governorship election. The governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan, told The PUNCH on …
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday the response of his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to an air strike that killed seven aid workers was “insufficient” and “unacceptable”. “We are waiting for a much more detailed clarification of what the causes have been, bearing in mind that the Israeli government knew about the actions and…
Several residents of Oke-Egan Community in the Eleko area of Ajah, Lagos State, on Wednesday, stormed the state House of Assembly complex in Ikeja, demanding compensation for the demolition of their houses. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that residents of the affected community, wielding large banners with boldly written messages, as well as placards…
The Lagos State Task Force, on Wednesday, clamped down on commercial motorcycles and squatters who erected shanties along the rail tracks in the Fagba area of the state. The agency said 359 bikes were impounded and several shanties demolished in the follow-up exercise after the launch of the Red Line Rail project. The spokesperson for…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Wednesday, explained that the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis between him and his estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, was political and not constitutional. He said he was committed to implementing the eight-point resolution reached at the mediation meeting with Tinubu in Abuja last year October out…
The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Kukah, will on Friday, April 12, 2024, deliver the memorial lecture of the late founder of the ClEEN Foundation, Innocent Chukwuma, in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Executive Director of ClEEN Foundation, Gad Peter, on Wednesday. The lecture with the theme ‘The Power…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has dismantled an illegal bunkering site in the Ukwa East Local Government, Abia State. A statement signed by the NSCDC spokesperson, Babawale Afolabi, on Wednesday, said the operatives impounded 9,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil from oil thieves in the state. Afolabi said the operations were conducted by…
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, FESTAC Mega Axis Headquarters, Lagos State, has given cash gifts, food items and grants to widows as well as vulnerable families. A statement on Wednesday said this was in a bid to put smiles on the faces of widows, the needy, indigent students and the less privileged amidst…
A near-fatal incident was averted on Wednesday after the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, and his family escaped being killed in a fire incident at his official residence in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, who insinuated that the incident…
The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime has donated wildlife monitoring and enforcement equipment to the Federal Government in a bid to bring an end to wildlife trafficking from Nigeria. UNODC presented that equipment to the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, which is an organisation of the Federal Government in charge of …
