The Pan-Yoruba Socio-cultural Group, Afenifere and the Committee of Indigenes of Lagos State on Wednesday declared support for the Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate in Lagos State, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. The groups officially declared support for Rhodes-Vivour at a news conference in Ikeja. Speaking on behalf of the groups,...
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Commercial banks in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have started issuing the old Naira notes to customers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) checks at some banks in Abuja on Wednesday, revealed that customers thronged banks to collect the notes while some rejected them. Mr Ifeanyi Udenna, a customer...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 65-year-old security guard in a fire incident at Akere Spare Parts Market, Ajegunle in the Apapa area of Lagos State. The police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Mr Christopher Maikalangu, has warned hoteliers within the area council to pay their revenues or have them sealed. Mr Maikalangu gave the warning in a statement signed by his media aide, Mr Kingsley Madaki, on Wednesday...
Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), and his running mate Ms Funke Akindele, say they are bound by their promises and will not let down the state’s residents if voted for. Adediran, represented by Akindele, made the pledge at a parley with businessmen and women from four...
The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is not officially talking with the Labour Party (LP) for any possible alliance ahead of Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections. The Lagos PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Hakeem Amode, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos...
The gubernatorial candidate of PDP in Lagos, Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), says Igbos deserve respect and protection for their immense contribution to the development of the state. Adediran, in company of his running mate, Ms Funke Akindele and other PDP leaders, made this remarks at a town hall meeting with...
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...
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...