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Following the crisis in the Mile 12-Ketu area of Lagos State last week, the State House of Assembly has called on the state government to consider  relocating  the market. Reacting to the crisis that occurred in the market last week, where some people lost their lives and properties were destroyed, the House said, under matter […]

A pensioner, Mrs. Rose Arabameh Julius, has donated her entire monthly pension of Ten Thousand Naira,equivalent of Thirty Dollars ($30.00) to support the Buhari administration’s war against corruption. Julius,  who retired as a cleaner from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, also promised to contribute N1,000 or $3.00 every month out of her  pension towards the […]Read More

The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the State to ensure total compliance with queries in the report of the Auditor-General. The House said it would ensure the enforcement of the law that requires strict compliance with the Auditor-General’s report as it begins an audit compliance exercise of the […]

Barely 24 hours after Nigeria lost its Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, his son and wife in a ghastly motor accident, another accident has occurred involving the Deputy Governor of Yobe State, Abubakar Ali. However, unlike Ocholi, Ali is said to have survived even though his current state of health is of major […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded former Chief of Defence Staff in Nigeria, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, in Kuje Prison after pleading not guilty to an 11 counts of money laundering. At Monday’s proceeding Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had urged the court to remand the former Chief of Defence Staff, […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday said his administration has the will and capacity to fight all forms of crime and criminality in the state, just as he read the riot act to persons who have taken to kidnapping, warning that there would be no hiding place for such act. The governor, who […]

…Wife In Critical Condition Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour, Barrister James Ocholi, is dead. The Minister, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Kogi State, died with his son in a fatal accident along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Sunday. Though his wife and driver survived, they are said to be in critical conditions. The accident […]

The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has availed itself creditably in the implementation of its Change Agenda, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said. Speaking on the topic: ‘The Change Agenda: The Journey so far’, at the Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI) in Kuru, […]

Nigeria’s foremost sugar refinery, Dangote Sugar Refinery has successfully obtained the Food Safety Systems (FSSC 22000) Certification). The certification which is a  standard fully recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) comes on the heels of other standards already obtained by the refinery which include  ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005 and ISO OHSAS 18001:2007. The recommendation […]Read More

About a week after three students were abducted from the school in Imota, Ikorodu area of Lagos, the Nigeria Police Force on Sunday announced that its men have rescued the students. The police also says that three suspects have been arrested over the matter. The students were abducted from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, Agunfoye Lugbusi, […]

Notwithstanding that the Child Rights Act was passed in Nigeria in 2003, people blatantly disregarding the legislation abounds. However, the ongoing victory being recorded in the case of Ese Oruru, a 14-year-old girl who was taken from Bayelsa to Kano to be forcibly joined to one Yinusa Dahiru in marriage has encouraged many others with […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent hearty congratulations to former President of Nigeria and elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR), as he turns 79 years old on 5th March 2016. Buhari pointed out that affirms the former president, who is approaching the octogenarian cycle, has contributed immensely to the institutionalization of democracy in Nigeria and Africa […]