Italian football club Napoli on Friday renamed its stadium from Stadio San Paolo to Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. This is to honour the club’s former captain Diego Maradona who died as a result of heart failure in November at the age of 60. Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, had…
The second prosecution witness (PW2), Abdulrahman Arabo, in the ongoing trial of Paul Usoro, SAN, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for alleged N1.4bn fraud, on Wednesday 3, 2020, told Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendant received a sum of N1.1bn from the…
The Lagos State Police Command has declared the restriction of movement between 6a.m and 6p.m on Saturday, 5th December 2020 in some parts of the state. The restriction according to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State CP Hakeem Odumosu is to ensure the conduct of free, fair and credible by-elections into the Lagos East Senatorial…
On 03 December 2020, Lufthansa again welcomed its passengers at Lagos airport on board of its resumed nonstop flight from Frankfurt/Germany. After having suspended its flight operations to Nigeria eight months ago following the travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Lufthansa is back to Nigeria as the travel restrictions to Nigeria have just being…
The Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA) has partnered with PharmAccess Foundation to launch ‘MOMCARE’ as part of efforts to reduce maternal death in the state. ‘MOMCARE’ is an innovative, digital and interactive financing approach to strengthening maternal and newborn healthcare as well as enhancing family enrollment on the Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS). Speaking…
The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has fulfilled his promise to the families of six police officers lynched in the state in the wake of the violence that trailed the recent nationwide EndSARS protests. The governor on Thursday compensated each of the six family members with N10 million in addition to scholarships awarded to…
Prince Jessy has emerged winner of the monthly Princewill Trust Help the Hard Worker competition. The monthly competition is put together by the hard working team of the Princewills Trust Prince Jessy emerged the winner of the November, 2020 edition, after a fairly contested competition, beating both Igbigierebo Amachree and Ediyekio Nelson Tamuno imiete also…
The trial of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, for money laundering could not hold on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 due to his absence in court for the third consecutive time. Fani-Kayode is facing a five-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N26 million,…
The former chairman of the pension reform task team Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina has been extradited to Nigeria. Maina was extradited by the Nigeria Police Force today, 3rd December, 2020, to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic, where he was arrested having been declared wanted by a court of competent jurisdiction over a pending criminal trial against…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the newly reappointed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu not to recourse to excuses but to use the more than two years ahead of the 2023 general election to rejig the electoral commission and work out legislations and operational rules that will guarantee…