The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and the Transafam Power have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deliver 50 Mega Watts (MW) of embedded power to Idu commercial hub in Abuja. The MoU was signed for the companies by Mr Chijioke Okwuokenye, the Acting Managing Director of AEDC...
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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has pledged to complete the Karshi to Apo Road construction project in the next six to seven months. Wike made the pledge on Tuesday, when he visited the project site, to assess the state of the project, which...
The Lagos State Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has said the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line will begin operations in September. The Managing Director of LAMATA, Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, disclosed this at a news conference organised by the Ministry of Transportation and its agencies on Tuesday...
Chris Exola Nwachukwu, a well-known skit maker famous for his controversial videos, has dramatically changed his position on political protests, surprising many. On February 20, 2024, a video featuring Nwachukwu and his friends went viral. In it, they celebrated the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration and advised Igbos against...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has attributed power outage in parts of Kubwa and environs to a technical fault at the Kubwa Transmission Station. The company disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. “We would like to inform residents of...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has provided funding for 30 indigent indigenes battling with various heart conditions to undergo open heart surgery at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). The Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, said...
The management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has introduced new initiatives to enhance its operational capabilities for effective service delivery. The Acting Managing Director of the company, Mr Victor Ojelabi, said this on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen in Abuja. Ojelabi attributed the new initiatives to...
Abuja residents have called on the FCT administration to build shelters at recognised bus stops as the rainy season intensifies. The residents told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that it was unfortunate that most bus stops in the nation’s capital lacked shelters. According to them, the matter...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has banned the procession of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) to commemorate the 2024 Islamic calendar day of Ashura in Abuja. The command’s spokeswoman, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement issued...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Sunday said that a family escaped death when their house in the outskirts of the city collapsed. The agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said in a statement in Lagos, that the incident occurred around Adealu Bus-stop in Ipaja area...
The Commissioner of Police (CP), FCT Command, Benneth Igweh shas said all the victims of the two-storey building that collapsed n Kubwa, Bwari Area Council, FCT, in the early hour on Saturday were rescued alive. Igweh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), that the rescue team was...
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Department (FEMD) has said four persons have been rescued alive from the rubbles of a collapsed two-storey building in Kubwa, Abuja, on Saturday. The acting Director-General, FEMD, Mrs Florence Wenegieme, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Wenegieme said that...
Ten children have died due to suspected measles outbreak in Damangaza community in Lokogoma District, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Mr James Budebo, Head of the Damangaza community, disclosed this during a one-day outreach programme on Friday in Abuja. The programme was organised by PHC...
A fuel tank was gutted by fire at Mainland Oil and Gas filling station, Dutse junction along Kubwa Expressway, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred at about 5:30 p.m on Thursday. An eye witness, who pleaded anonymity, said that he was about...
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Department (FEMD), has prevented one Shuaibu Yusha’u from committing suicide in Abuja on Monday. Yusha’u, 24, climbed a 120-meter mast at the top of Katampe hill, within the premises of Aso Radio and Television Services, along Murtala Mohammed Expressway, Abuja, and threatened...
The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has inaugurated a 19-member technical community to relocate Apo Mechanic Village and other technicians, dealers operating on road corridors to Wasa District, Abuja. The AMMC Coordinator, Mr Felix Obuah, who inaugurated the committee in Abuja,...
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Department (FEMD), has advised residents of FCT, living by riverbanks and waterways to relocate to higher grounds to avoid loss of lives and property in the advent of flood. The acting Director-General of the department, Mrs Florence Wenegieme, gave the advice in...
Police Command in Lagos State said that a yet-to-be identified 61-year-old man has lost his life after being electrocuted during the flood incident. Police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the death in a post he shared on his X handle @benHundeyin on Thursday. He said that the incident...
The Lagos State government has apologised to residents of the state displaced as a result of the intensive rainfall experienced on Wednesday. The state’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, stated this during a syndicated interview programme across different television channels in Lagos on...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has inaugurated the reconstruction of 25-kilometre Kwaita to Yebu Road in Kwali, Kwali Area Council of the FCT. Wike said while inaugurating the project in Kwali on Thursday, that the measure was part of President Bola Tinubu’s...