Chrisland High School, Lagos, where a student died during its inter-house sports competition on Feb. 9, remains shut, Lagos State government declared on Sunday. It stated that the continued closure of the school after the death of the 12-year-old student, Whitney Adeniran, was to further investigate alleged endangerment of...
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Eight days to the conduct of Governorship and House of Assembly elections, the Igbo Communities in Lagos State on Saturday officially endorsed the PDP’s Governorship Candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran and his running mate, Ms Funke Akindele. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that leaders of Ndigbo declared their...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command has arrested six armed robbery suspects, who specialised in dispossessing unsuspecting residents of their valuables within Ajegunle and Alaba-Rago area. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Saturday. SP Hundeyin identified...
Lagos State Government said it would oppose exhumation of the corpse of Miss Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old student of Chrisland Schools, Opebi, Lagos, who died during the school’s inter-house sports, in February. The government made the disclosure in a statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs in the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Member representing Lafia North constituency at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Hon Mohammed Ibrahim Alkali, has commissioned a borehole worth over N2, million. Hon Alkali, who commissioned the borehole during his unit to unit campaign at Rafin Kudi in Keffi Wambai ward, said...
The six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory and other stakeholders have received the sum of N3,015,446,815.55Billion as their share of statutory allocation for the month of January, 2023.December 2022. This figure represents a 20.3 percent decrease when compared to the N3,786,194,845.78billiin shared in the month of December...
The Lagos State Government has said that the late Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old Chrisland School student, died from asphyxia and electrocution. This is contained in a statement from the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), on Thursday in Lagos. The statement said that...
The Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos has declared support for the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, come March 11. The President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, High Chief Sunday Ossai, made the declaration on Thursday in Ikeja, during a Joint news briefing by the Lagos State Leaders of Thoughts...
Mr Obika Chinedu, candidate of Labour Party(LP) has won the House of Representatives election in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) Abuja. Prof. Ukertor Gabriel, Collation and Returning Officer for Bwari/AMAC Federal Constituency, made the announcement on Tuesday in Abuja. Gabriel said, Chinedu, representing Bwari/Abuja Municipal Area Council(AMAC), polled 201, 308...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mrs Ireti Kingibe of the Labour Party (LP) as the winner of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)Senate seat. INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Sanni Saka of the University of Abuja announced the result on Tuesday in Abuja. Saka said that Ireti scored...
The Abiodun Essiet Initiative for Girls, a non-governmental organisation, has called for an end to violence against women in politics to protect the country’s democracy. Mrs Abiodun Essiet, the executive director of the organisation, said this at a town-hall meeting organised for various stakeholders at the Kwali Area Council...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its contract for logistics delivery for the forthcoming general elections in Lagos State is with individual drivers and not with Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the clarification in an...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced a 50 per cent cut in fares on all government-owned transportation system. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu made the announcement at the Lagos House Marina, while addressing newsmen on the fuel shortage and currency exchange crisis in the country. Sanwo-Olu said that the 50...
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sympathised with its Deputy Governorship Candidate, Ms Funke Akindele, over the death of her mother, Dr R. B. Adebanjo-Akindele on Tuesday. The party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Hakeem Amode, described the death as a...
The Lagos State Government says 27.3 per cent of its 2023 Budget, amounting to N482.86 billion will be expended to provide modern infrastructure to the residents. The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr Samuel Egube, made this known in Ikeja during a news conference on the analysis of...
The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), has said that it would review the 43 years unreviewed Abuja Masterplan in order to address issues of land grabbing, double allocations, fake layouts and others. Mrs Lami Ayuba, the newly-elected 14th Chairman of the NITP, FCT Chapter, said this in a...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested an Operations Manager of a leading Commercial bank in Abuja Central Area for refusing to load the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of the bank despite having N29 million of the new naira notes in the...
The DUMENA Technology Group, a technology education company, said N500,000, N300,000 and N200,000 are up for grabs in AI-Robotics competition for children aged 10 to 18 years within the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in the Federal Capital Territory. Mr Kingsley Ezejiaku, Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, made...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has flagged-off an Integrated Medical Outreach, in Karshi to be conducted across all the 62 political wards in the Territory. The free medical outreach powered by Nigerians Unite for Tinubu/Shettima Mandate was targeted at the vulnerables...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says there was no hitch in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) mock accreditation conducted in 12 Polling Units across six local government areas (LGAs) in Lagos State on Saturday. The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, disclosed this to newsmen after...