According to a report reaching our news room, a small plane has crashed into a lagoon in Lagos. The helicopter, we learnt, crashed into a lagoon behind a police station at Oworosoki. However, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in South-West, Ibrahim Farinloye, who confirmed the incident, could not ascertain if the jet…
The death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade has been formally announced by traditional rulers in Osun State. This was made known on Wednesday afternoon in the state after a brief meeting with the state governor in Osogbo, the state capital. On Monday, the Obawara of Iwara-Ife, Oba Layi Adereti, had told journalists…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been charged to investigate the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi. According to the Deputy Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Samuel Nwanosike, Buhari must probe those around him, including Amaechi, who the party alleged to have looted the state during his tenure as…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has been directed by the Senate to immediately enforce the abolishment of N702 fixed charges being collected from electricity consumers across the country. According to the lawmakers, it was wrong for the Commission to continue charging consumers of electricity in Nigeria the said amount after it was ordered to…