Personnel of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, led by one Gbenga Oladokun, on Wednesday, allegedly mobilised hoodlums and men of the Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit to pull down a newspaper distribution centre on No. 370 Ikorodu Road, Maryland. Two newspaper distributors, Arnold Igele and Tunde […]
Month: June 2020
An indigenous airline, Air Peace, on Thursday announced that it flew all 25 aircraft in its fleet on June 24 to different parts of the country in readiness for the resumption of domestic flights. It said the flights were aimed at ensuring that the aircraft were in good condition, having […]
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have recovered six rifles from an uncompleted building on church premises in Asaba. The resident pastor of the church, Fidelix Nwansa, was also arrested. Nwansa, who is in charge of the Christ Holy Church, was nabbed for alleged gunrunning on the pretext of […]
Eighteen members of the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee loyal to the party’s sacked National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday, insisted that the APC National Executive Committee meeting attended by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was illegal. The NWC members, who said this in a statement signed […]
The immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has died at age 70 after battling coronavirus-related symptoms for a month. Ajimobi, who was governor from 2011 to 2019, was named the Acting National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress last week but never resumed. The former governor was hospitalised at First Cardiologist […]
The collapse in crude oil prices, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to “plunge the Nigerian economy into a severe recession, the worst since the 1980s”, the World Bank said on Thursday. The World Bank, in a new report, titled ‘Nigeria in times of COVID-19: Laying foundations for a […]
A forty-year-old man, Abdulrahaman Abdulkarim, is now in police net in Katsina for allegedly killing his wife and dumping her corpse inside a well. Abdulkarim allegedly recently committed the offence at Madabu -Dabawa village in Dutsinma Local Government Area of the state. The Spokesman for the Katsina police command, Gambo […]
With Wednesday’s approval of the N2.3 trillion Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan by the Federal Executive Council, the Federal Government has stopped what it called non-critical and administrative capital spending, including the purchase of vehicles. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a […]
The Dubai Police Force, United Arab Emirates, has revealed how it arrested Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, aka Hushpuppi. In a video released on its official Twitterhandle on Thursday, the Middle-East police said a special team had been tracking the suspect and his gang’s activities on social media for about four months. The […]
A Civil Society Organisation, the Centre for Labour Studies, has called on the Imo State Government to settle the backlog of unpaid pension to retirees in the state. The centre, in a statement by labour lawyer, Femi Aborisade, said it was heartbreaking to see the frustrated pensioners resort to a […]
