Category: National/Politics

President Buhari Offers Automatic Employment, Scholarship To 110 Ex-Corps Members

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday offered automatic employment to 110 ex-corps members in the Federal Civil Service and scholarships for the pursuit of post-graduate studies up to doctoral level in any university in Nigeria. Speaking at the virtual 2018/2019 President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) honours award ceremony held at the State House Conference Centre,…

Lekki Toll Gate: Lagos, Police Halt Planned Protest, Counter Rallies Over Threats Of Violence

The Lagos State Government has issued a stern warning to various opposing groups planning to embark on protests at the Lekki Toll Plaza on Saturday, advising them to shelve the plan. It is not an auspicious moment for such action, the State Government told the groups planning opposing rallies. The position of the State Government…

EFCC Arrests Five In Festac for $257,822 Credit Card Fraud

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have smashed a syndicate of alleged fraudsters who specializes in credit card fraud. The arrested suspects, Daniel C. Stephen, Nestor Ezeani, Sonny Okwaraji, Sylvester E Otuwa and Jeff Ogbonaya, allegedly masterminded the theft of $257,822.16 American Dollars from a new generation bank. The alleged fraudulent transaction…

Normalcy Returns To Obalende As Police Stations In Strategic Points

The Lagos Police Command has assured citizens that normalcy has returned in the Obalende area of Lagos following a clash between rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Pandemonium broke out in the early hours of Thursday, at Obalende area of Lagos Island when sounds of gunshots were heard, thereby raising…

CBN Misled Court Into Freezing of #EndSARS Protesters’ Accounts – Falana

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) misled the court into freezing the accounts of some individuals of the ENDSARs protesters by making the court believe that some grave offenses had been committed and would require time to run an investigation. The human rights lawyer,…

EFCC Arrest 39 Yahoo Boys in Ago-Iwoye, Ilesha

The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, arrested 39 internet fraud suspects, also known as ‘Yahoo-Yahoo Boys’. Ten of them were arrested at Ilesha, Osun State, while Twenty-nine others were arrested in different locations at Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State. Those arrested at Ilesha are: Oyesoji Tosin,…

Red Line Rail Project: Lagos Closes Lane At Yaba Axis For Three Weeks

The Lagos State Government has announced the closure of the Yaba Overpass temporarily for three weeks from Tuesday 9th to Tuesday, 23rd February, 2021. The government explained that the closure is in continuation of the Multimodal Master Plan in the transportation sector, According to a statement signed by the Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic…

Lagos Auctions 83 Forfeited Vehicles For Violation Of State Traffic Law

The Lagos State Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with the State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Unit, on Monday, supervised the public auction of 83 forfeited vehicles on the orders of the Lagos State Special Offences Mobile Court for the violation of the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law 2018. Speaking to journalists…