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The Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced that it has concluded plans to establish the first ever high-powered DNA Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria which will take off within the next six to twelve months. The lab, which would be called the Lagos State DNA Forensics Centre (LSDFC), when fully operational, would fulfil an unmet need […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has dismissed an application seeking to stay proceedings in a suit over the increase in electricity tariff for lack of merit. The application was dismissed on Monday with a cost of N10,000 awarded in favour of the plaintiff who is a Lagos based lawyer, Toluwani Yemi-Adebiyi. Dismissing the […]

Officials of government of Lagos, especially members of the state House of Assembly, are not finding it easy with contractors over contracts awarded to them by the state government under former Governor Babatunde Fashola. Most of these projects were abandoned once the administration of Fashola ended and the administration of current Governor Akinwunmi Ambode emerged. […]

Former Minister of interior, Abba Moro has been arrested and is currently being  quizzed. Moro was arrested alongside Anaesthesia Nwaobia,a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior and a deputy director, whose could be ascertained as at press time. www.www.aso.rocks search engine gathered that their arrest on Monday stems from the Nigeria Immigration Service employment […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has travelled 24 times since May 29, 2015 and each of these trips gulped $1 million, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State alleged on Sunday. Fayose urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $1 million per foreign trip. […]

Just back from Egypt where he attended an international event, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is to commence a week-long official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Monday. As conveyed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari, who will be accompanied by a high-powered Federal Government delegation, including the Minister […]

Telecommunications giant ZTE, has expressed confidence that the current probe into the   $470 million National Public Security Communication System (NPSCS) project will finally put to rest all public misconceptions about the project. The company’s optimism is contained in a statement by its Managing Director, Mr. Hao Fuqiang, and obtained by journalists on Sunday in […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has not stopped the allocation and sale of Foreign Exchange for purposes of paying medical and school fees abroad, the apex bank has said. Director, Corporate Communications Ibrahim Mu’azu made the clarification on Friday, explaining that any information stating otherwise is false. “Despite assurances from the CBN, some persons […]

Embattled Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Rickey Tarfa, has explained that the contentious N225,000.00 he transferred into the bank account of Justice Muhammed Yunusa was not meant to bribe the judge as alleged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission currently trying the lawyer for frustrating the agency from arresting his clients. Tarfa explained that […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s relative who was abducted some days ago with the former President’s foster father has been found dead. Samuel Oki, 35 years old, was abducted with 72-year old Chief Inegite Nitabai Jonathan, the former President’s foster father. His body was discovered floating on the Otuoke River on Friday, two days after the […]Read More

Former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service of Nigeria (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoguiyi-Okauru, left the chamber of the Lagos State House of Assembly, where she was screened for a government appointment, disappointed after she was reminded by the Speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, that the Economic Team in which she participated, failed Nigeria. Mrs. Omoguiyi-Okauru, […]

Ijeoma Nwokedi, a 39-year​-​old pregnant woman died aboard an Arik Air flight from Port Harcourt to Lagos on Friday. Mrs. Nwokedi was said to have developed complications mid-air and was attended to by some medical personnel on board the flight before reaching Lagos. She was reportedly travelling with her husband and cousin when the sad […]