Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, and Rasheed Gbadamosi have been appointed as Co-Chairmen of the Lagos at 50 Planning Committee. Both men were appointed by the Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday and unveiled at an event held at the Lagos House in Ikeja, the state capital. Ambode expressed optimism that the celebration will…
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has ordered the indefinite suspension of his Special Adviser on Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, Jeremiah Oketa, for action, described as going beyond the authority and command of his office. The Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Emanuel Onwe, announced this last week while briefing journalists on the outcome of this…
Members of the Nigeria Medical Association, Imo State chapter on Thursday staged a peaceful demonstration in Owerri, the state capital. The move was to kick against the condition of health care system in Imo State and the alleged use of intimidation on them by the state government. The protesting doctors carried placard with various inscriptions.…
Fortune has smiled on the young and brilliant car designer from Sokoto State, Bashir Aliyu. This is because the state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal on Tuesday awarded him a scholarship to study automotive design in the United States of America. Aliyu became a social media sensation when his designed car driven to school got the…
The lecturer in the Kaduna State University, KASU, Dr John Danfulani, who was arrested by police in Kaduna over his Facebook post, has been denied bail. Magistrate Awwal Musa, during the ruling, said the police was empowered to protect, investigate and carry out the duty assigned to them, hence the court cannot deny them their…
A raging inferno enveloped a filling station in the Lawanson area of Lagos State on Thursday evening. It was gathered that the fire, which gutted an MRS petrol station in the area in Surulere, destroyed many properties worth millions of Naira. The inferno was said to have started around 6pm. The immediate cause of the…
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, was on Wednesday not present at the inauguration of his successor, Yahaya Bello, in Lokoja, where the handover ceremony took place. Wada, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not seen around the venue of the event. He was not on ground to perform handover formalities…
There was tension among motorists and pedestrians on Wednesday evening when officers of the Mobile Police and a Navy personnel engaged in a gun battle in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that both men of the Force showed their supremacy in a gun duel, which left many people scampering to safety…
Operatives of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday invaded the Borno State House of Assembly and sealed it. Some members of the Assembly were also reportedly arrested by the anti-graft agency and taken away in their vehicles. It was gathered that the Assembly was sealed over an alleged fraud. It was also…
Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya has stressed the need for media practitioners to be thorough and be armed with accurate facts and figures in their investigative journalism. He also asked them to always project the image of the State in its true perspective to counter the negative picture being presented…