Operatives of KAI Brigade who sustained injuries during the enforcement exercise at Ile-Epo Market in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area of the State last week have been promoted. Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, disclosed this on behalf of the Lagos State Government. The Commissioner, who visited the KAI Brigade Headquarters in Alausa,…
Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, on Monday sought an injunction against an online news medium, Sahara Reporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore. The former guber candidate of the PDP in Lagos asked an Ikeja High Court in Lagos to grant its application because the defendants failed to show up in court. Obanikoro…
Former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Raymond Temisan Omatseye, will know his fate come Monday, May 9, 2016. This is because Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia has fixed the day for delivery of judgment in a case involving Omatseye. He was accused of awarding contract above his approval limit and arraigned…
Members of the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has re-elected Dan Orbih, as their chairman. Orbih was re-elected on Monday at the state congress held in Benin. Others elected on Monday were Emmanuel Ugbon, Deputy State Chairman; Edoba Omorogie, Legal Adviser; Isreal Aguele, Treasury, and Chris Nehikhare, Publicity Secretary, among others.…
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has told his country military in Syria to leave the war-torn country. Putin informed a meeting on Monday at the Kremlin that the pullout of the main part of the Russian forces would start on Tuesday. However, the Russian leader disclosed that Russia’s Hmeimim airbase and the its port at…
On Monday, March 14, 2016, lawmakers from the Ekiti State House of Assembly were in Abuja to kick against invasion of the Assembly by the Department of State Services, DSS, officials on Friday, March 4, 2016. The legislators took their protest to the embassies of the United States of America and the United Kingdom in…
Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly were on Monday at the embassies of the United States of America and the United Kingdom in Abuja to protest invasion of the Assembly by armed men of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Friday, March 4, 2016. The lawmakers also cried to the embassies over…
Guaranty Trust Bank has released its audited financial results for the year ended December 2015 to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges. A review of the result again affirmed the Bank as one of the most profitable and well managed financial institutions in Nigeria. According to the audited financial results, GTBank has an impressive…
Former Rivers State governor and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused his successor, Nyesom Wike, of lacking the political will and capacity to govern the state. Amaechi stated this on Sunday at an APC rally in Rumueme, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, ahead of the state and national assembly elections on Saturday. In a statement…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been directed by an Abuja High Court sitting in Jabi to release immediately former aide to the immediate past National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, Nicholas Ashinze. Ashinze had been in custody of the anti-graft agency since December 23, 2015. At the hearing on Monday, Justice Yusuf…