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The Lagos State Government has directed law enforcement agencies to apprehend motorists with defective vehicle registration number plates and those without any number fixed on their vehicles. In a chat with newsmen, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Abdulhafiz Toriola, notes that the wrongful use of number plates has become rampant. Toriola, who cited Section 16 of the Lagos […]
Angry farmers in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State at the weekend, staged a mass protest against the alleged sale of their cocoa plantations and other farmlands by the state government to foreign companies. The protesters were led by the traditional ruler of Ilua, Oba Olalani Ibidapo. The aggrieved farmers displayed placards with various inscriptions […]
Presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale is saying that President Bola Tinubu spent the months since his victory at the February 25 election setting clear goals for each sector in the country and will not tolerate failure from either of his recently inaugurated ministers. Ngelale notes that Tinubu is not afraid to levy quick sanctions to ensure that he gets the desired result as […]
Plateau state as the Government is faulting the Police Commissioner in the state, Julius Okoro, for reopening the sealed 17 Local Government secretariats for the suspended chairmen to have access to. The Attorney General of the state, Philimon Daffi, faulted the move at the end of an emergency Security Council Meeting presided over by the Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs. Josephine Piyo. You’ll remember that Governor Caleb Mutfwang had on June 1st, […]
President Bola Tinubu is saying that the country must make difficult changes to be respected in the comity of nations. He made this known in Abuja yesterday, August 27th being Sunday, while declaring open the 2023 Annual General conference of the Nigerian Bar Association at the Velodrome, MKO Abiola Stadium. According to Tinubu, even though initial reforms may be painful, Nigeria must be willing to take […]
Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JEDC, has announced that its customers in Plateau, Bauchi, and Gombe states would experience power outages from August 28 that is, today to September 2nd. The planned outage will last from 9 am to 5 pm daily for the six days. The announcement was contained in a statement issued by the company’s Head of Corporate Communications, Dr. Friday Elijah, at the weekend in Jos. […]
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Plateau State Chapter has declared an indefinite strike action commencing Midnight of Sunday; that is yesterday 27th August. According to the union, the move became imperative to guarantee the security of their staff who have been caught in the Local Government Executive leadership tussle across the 17 Local Government Areas of Plateau State. The […]
The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) has extended the resumption date of the new football season by two weeks. The IMC had originally set 26 August as the NPFL kickoff date for the 2023/24 season, but it has now been extended by two weeks to 8/10 September. According to the statement released by the NPFL […]
The Ogun Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 1,245 live ammunition allegedly concealed in 203 bags of foreign rice abandoned in a bush path at Tombolo Junction, near the Yewa North Local Government Area (LGA) of Ogun State. This revelation was made in Abeokuta, the state capital, by the Customs Area […]
No fewer than 21 military personnel including senior officers were reportedly killed by the suspected bandits at Kundu via Zungeru in the Wushishi Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger state. It was gathered that 13 of them were killed in an encounter on Sunday, while eight others were killed on Monday in an ambush in […]
