By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Dr. Mohammed Abubakar has commissioned roads, drainages network as well as solar energy street light projects in Maiduguri city, the Borno State’s capital. The minister, who was epresented by the North East Zonal Director of FMARD,...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that about 21 ships at the Lagos ports were discharging bulk wheat, general cargo, container, petrol, bulk sugar, base oil, frozen fish, bulk gypsum and bulk urea. NPA disclosed this in its publication, ‘Shipping Position’, which was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his third day of the commissioning tour of southern Borno, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was in Hawul LGA on Thursday, during which he commissioned five projects. At the commissioning of one of the five projects which is a secondary school owned by community...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – On his second day of commissioning tour in Southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday commissioned a skill acquisition centre and a secondary school in Kwaya Kusar Local Government Area. The governor, after passing Tuesday night at Biryel in Bayo Local Government also spent...
A yet-to-be-identified man and a woman suspected to be his wife, on Monday, escaped death by a whisker after ramming into two coffin shops around the Ikorodu General Hospital, in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the man was driving along the T.O.S...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned a new Model Secondary School in Gajiganna, Magumeri LGA, which was built and donated by The Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) and Total Energies Infrastructures Project as part of their Cooperate Social Responsibility. The Governor, who was...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said its operatives have arrested a 32-year-old drug trafficker based in Liberia, Maduabuchi Chinedu, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 9.30 kilograms of cocaine worth over N2.7 billion in street value. The NDLEA...
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has completed rehabilitation of two township roads in Ikorodu as part of its Federal Constituency projects in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two road projects were awarded to LRB Global Investment Ltd, and JRB Construction Co. Ltd. at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his first day of ongoing commissioning tour of 23 projects in southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum has commissioned a newly mega-size Government Day Technical Secondary School sited in Wuyo, Bayo Local Government Area of Borno State. He also commissioned three other projects in...
Katsina State Government says it has spent N2.5 billion on constituency electrification projects across the 34 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state under the 2021 financial year. This is contained in the 2022 Katsina government budget proposal document, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Government has concluded plans to commence the 2021 Africa Industrialization Day/Young Africa Industrialization Week to commemorate international Africa Industrialization Day. The state Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives (MCIC), Dr Lola Akande, made this known in a statement, signed by Mr...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Taskforce have crushed about 482 motorcycles that were impounded on restricted roads across the state. The move according to the police taskforce would served as a deterrent to other potential traffic offenders. The police spokesman, Mr. Adekunle Ajisebutu, who disclosed this...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has pledges to fix the moribund facilities at the Obudu Ranch Resort before December 2022. As an indigene of the area, the governor said failure to fix the resort before exiting office will amount to injustice against himself and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In an effort towards ending open defecation in Borno State, the General Manager, Rural Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Engr. Dr. Mohammed Aliyu has disclosed that about 66,570 people have so far gained access to safe toilet and sanitation facilities through the...
The United States on Tuesday said it was looking forward to a response from the Lagos State Government after the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry submitted its final report. The panel was commissioned by the state government to look into the events of October 2020, including the shootings...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), LITE Africa with financial support from European Union through ECOWAS management of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Nigeria (SALW Action), have commissioned three projects in Bakassi LGA and Calabar Municipal Council Cross River State. Among the projects includes –...
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters has concluded that the Nigerian Army shot and killed unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020. The Panel’s findings were disclosed in its report issued on Monday. According...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday, granted a N10 million bail to a 43-year-old businessman, Afamefuna Udensi, charged with alleged importation of fake Tramadol. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant is being prosecuted by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and...
Lagos State Government and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO-UN) have signed a 200,000 dollars Unilateral Trust Fund Agreement (UTF) for development of coconut value chain. Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, signed the agreement on behalf of the state government, while the Country...