At least, six public tertiary institutions in Lagos State have benefitted from the free campus Wi-Fi service initiative of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. This was even as the Speaker also facilitated the construction of fully equipped ICT centres in 10 secondary schools in Surulere 1 Federal Constituency of the State... Read More
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari today has forwarded and nominated the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs to the Senate as non-career Ambassadors-Designate. The letter was sent to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan. “In accordance with section 171 (1), (2) (c) & sub-section (4) of 1999 Constitution of the... Read More
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu for three months. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi disclosed this on Thursday while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that the decision of the President to extend the IGP’s tenure for another... Read More
An early Thursday morning fire outbreak at the Tipper Market 3rd Avenue, Gwarimpa, Abuja has claimed six lives, while many others are injured. Goods worth millions of Naira were also lost to the fire. The inferno, which lasted for over two hours before it was put out by the men of the FCT Fire Service,... Read More
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps in Ogun State have busted pipeline vandals in Ogere, Ikenne Local Government Area of the state. The vandals reportedly abandoned their tools including 302 empty jerry cans when they sighted the NSCDC operatives on Wednesday. The spokesperson of the NSCDC in the state, Ogbonnaya... Read More
Unidentified gunmen have killed a young man travelling on motorcycle around Ndele Community axis of the East-West road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. This was happening just about 24 hours after the Executive Chairman of LGA, Chief Tom Aliezi, disbanded the local vigilante groups, that was providing security communities of the LGA.... Read More
As a result of incessant terrorist attacks on some communities in Borno State, residents of four local governments in the state are fleeing into Yobe communities, the police have revealed. The local governments, according to Yobe State Police Command, are Gubio, Magumeri, Kaga and Konduga. A statement on Thursday by the... Read More
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked the Court of Appeal in Lagos to list Mohammed Yunusa, a Federal High Court judge recently discharged of bribery charges, for retrial. It made the prayer in a February 2, 2020 notice of appeal sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday. An Ikeja High Court had... Read More
A Legal Practitioner Disciplinary Committee has ordered the removal of Joseph Abang from the Roll of Legal Practitioners.
NDLEA nabs businessman, one other with over 3kg cocaine at Lagos, Abuja airports The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, continues to put the heat on drug traffickers with the latest arrest of a businessman at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and another man at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, with over... Read More