The Lagos State Government has promised to speedily complete all ongoing housing schemes to provide shelter for the teeming population. Commissioner for Housing, Maruf Akinderu-Fatai, who addressed reporters yesterday in Ikeja, stressed that the private sector’s participation would be strengthened ...
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Presidency retains Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu, Laolu Akande as spokesmen
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu as Special Adviser and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity. He also sanctioned the re-appointment of Laolu Akande as Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice President ...
Read More »Immigrants, traders, others groan as Nigeria closes borders over insecurity
The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to check banditry, terrorism, smuggling, proliferation of small arms and light weapons and related criminal activities may have begun taking toll in earnest on immigrants, traders, commuters, customs agents, forwarders and other maritime stakeholders, ...
Read More »Electronic transmission of election results illegal, INEC insists as presidential tribunal hears final addresses, reserves ruling
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has maintained that there was no extant law backing the electronic transmission of election results and as such, it could not have imported the outcome of the February 23, 2019 presidential poll into a ...
Read More »IKOTUN DIVISION RESCUES MAN,WIFE BEATEN BY POLARIS BANK SECURITY.
A young couple who were manhandled by Polaris Bank Security team of a mobile Policeman and an internal security officer yesterday for simply seeking to know how 97,000 disappeared from their account have been rescued by men of the Ikotun ...
Read More »PAN IGBO GROUP MOVES TO CONSOLIDATE UNITY,SUPPORT IN LAGOS
A prominent pan Igbo socio-cultural group, Ndigbo Buru Otu Association of Nigeria, yesterday mobilised a large number of its people which comprised mostly the executives and patrons, for what could be best described as a unity and support move. The ...
Read More »One Million Boys Confraternity, Police Arrest 8 During Initiation
The police command in Lagos has apprehended eight suspected members of ‘one million boys’ cult group during initiation exercise at the Ikenna Hausa area of the state. The suspects comprising six males and two females were arrested by operation crush ...
Read More »Extra Judicial Killings : Police Kill Unarmed Suspects
The Lagos State Police Commands attention, was drawn to a video on social media, showing some Police Officers shooting two unarmed suspects who were arrested and already in their custody against the code of professional conduct and laws guiding how ...
Read More »No fresh registration of voters for Bayelsa, Kogi elections, INEC declares
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ruled out fresh registration of voters who are yet to register for their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) ahead of the November 16 governorship polls in Bayelsa and Kogi states. National Commissioner and Chairman, ...
Read More »Nigerian Navy seeks closer military ties with Bangladesh
Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas has advocated closer military cooperation between Nigeria and Bangladesh. He made this call while receiving the Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shameem Ahsan, in his office today. Admiral Ibas stressed that Nigeria ...
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