Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has highlighted the significance of the proposed amendment to the Local Government Law. At a one-day Stakeholders’ Meeting on the proposed amendment, which took place at the Lateef Jakande Auditorium in the Assembly complex, Alausa Ikeja, on Monday, Obasa explained that it is not to…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has alleged that the House of Representatives Committee on Army’s visit to the state was bankrolled by Governor Nyesom Wike. Rivers APC said it came to this conclusion having painstakingly observed and reviewed the visit and justifiably concluded that the entire exercise was contrived Wike for the…
Not less than a soldier was killed on Tuesday when the convoy of Acting General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7 Division Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu, was attacked by suspected members of Boko Haram group. It was disclosed by the Nigerian Army that the unfortunate incident occurred at about 8:30am on Tuesday in Bama, Borno…
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that peace has been restored to the Kareto town of Borno State after Boko Haram members invaded the community on Monday morning. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Army spokesman, Col Sani Usman, he said troops were able to repel the insurgents and took control of the place.…
Members of the upper chamber of the national Assembly have been advised to stay off the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja, where the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is undergoing trial for alleged false declaration of assets. Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, told the Senators accompanying their leader to the place to…
The Lagos Government on Monday said it would not hesitate to seal the properties of residents who default in paying their Land Use Charge (LUC), just as it warned that it may explore the option of prosecuting defaulters according to the Law. Addressing journalists at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa Secretariat, Commissioner for…
Officers of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, have confiscated a petrol truck filled with bales of smuggled second hand clothings. The heavy duty vehicle was seized by the Customs on Sunday, April 3, 2016, along the Gasau road in Zamfara State. It was learnt that the tanker was carrying 100 bales of the smuggled clothings…
According to ThisDay, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, is seriously sick and he is unable to walk unaided. The publication based its report on information relayed to it by a source close to the retired army general’s hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger State. The report said IBB’s illness has made it impossible for him…
Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Allied Offences Commission, ICPC, Ekpo Nta, has disclosed that the commission was investigating a state governor for alleged diversion of bailout funds meant for the payment of workers’ salaries. Nta made this known when he received students of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, who were…
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, has predicted that the economy would experience a boom by the end of 2018 just as he hinted of a hike in interest rate by May 2016 at the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Apex Bank, following the inflation rate that has galloped to…