The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA) has confirmed that two persons have escaped death on Tuesday when a commercial bus rammed into a slow moving articulated vehicle. LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, said the...
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By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja- The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has attributed blackout in parts of its franchise area to system failure. AEDC management said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday. It said: ”We understand that some of our customers are still without power due to...
The Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota in Lagos State, was empty of #Endbadgovernance protesters, following President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday morning broadcast, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN Correspondent who visited the park on Sunday observed that 80 per cent of the security personnel, particularly, the Police,...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has called on the people protesting against hunger and hardship to come for dialogue. Wike made the call while handing over Staff of Office to four newly coronated Chiefs of Karu, Kwali, Pai, and Yaba, in Abuja...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest called by some Nigerians against the hardship in the country has become violent in the territory. The Police Public Relations Officer, FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the...
L Mobile policemen deployed at the Admiralty Lekki Phase 1 Toll Gate in Lagos State have restored normalcy to the area following attempted eruption of violent protest. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent monitoring the protest at the toll gate on Thursday, reports that some protesters had...
The Police and other security agents, including newsmen, were present at Gani Fawehinmi Park early morning on Thursday, waiting for the Protesters endlessly. A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who was at the venue at about 7.30 a.m., reports that the police, Civil Defence, Lagos...
Lagos State Governor , Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appealed to the state residents to toe the path of peace by not engaging in the planned nationwide protest. Sanwo-Olu made the appeal in a statement signed by himself and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. The...
A cross section of Nigerians in the FCT and environs, on Wednesday said they had to be more creative to enable them feed their families. The residents told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Abuja that the economic downturn had forced them to look...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has approved the promotion of 1,018 senior and junior staff of the Federal Capital Development Authority. The Executive Secretary of FCDA, Mr Shehu Ahmad made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Ahmad said that...
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has rewarded a vigilante group in Kwali Area Council for rescuing four kidnapped victims. The reward included an operational vehicle and an undisclosed cash, to encourage the group to do more. The rescued victims were presented to Wike at...
Sen. Shehu Sani on Tuesday in Abuja presented electronics items worth N10 million to the management, staff and students of the FCT school of the blind. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),reports that the items presented included television sets, deep freezers, among other visual aids equipments. “I...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Monday that President Bala Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Mandate Secretariat for Youth Affairs in the FCT. Wike made the disclosure during an interactive engagement with residents of Bwari Area Council of the...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has said the FCT Administration is investing in infrastructure to make residents comfortable. Wike stated this in Abuja on Saturday, after inspecting the ongoing construction of 11.1-kilometre expressway, from Airport Road to Kuje. “As a government, we...
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has given Setraco Nigeria Ltd., the contractor executing the construction of 7.2-kilometre road in Bwari Area Council five-month ultimatum to complete the project. The road linked Gaba and Tokulo communities in the council. Wike, who gave the delivery timeline when...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in Kogi State has said eight school children were rescued unhurt after an 40-feet articulated container fell on two vehicles on Thursday in Lokoja. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Mr Samuel Oyedeji, disclosed this to the News Agency of...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Thursday, said that the owner of the collapsed building in the Maryland Estate that claimed five lives was still at large. The agency’s Director, Operations, Engr Olatunde Akinsanya, said this while speaking with journalists at the incident venue. He, however,...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the death toll in the building collapse at Arowojobe Estate in Maryland area of the state had risen to five person. The agency’s Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of...
Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, has unveiled official logo of the rebranded Abuja International Carnival scheduled to hold in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Musawa, alongside other stakeholders, formally unveiled the logo at a ceremony...