Category: National/Politics

COVID-19 Vaccine: Lagos Targets 60% Rollout, Engages Pfizer, Others

As the epicenter of Covid-19 infections in the country, Lagos State is aiming to achieve 60 per cent vaccine rollout when the vaccination programme commences in the coming weeks in a bid to help check rate of transmission and build the resilience of the State against the ravaging virus. The state says it had activated…

Sanwo-Olu Vows To Change Narrative of Maternal And Child Mortality

The prayer and joy of every pregnant woman is to have a smooth nine months journey and safe delivery with both mother and child intact but that has not been in some instances as cases of maternal and child mortality is reported across the country and in most developing countries. However one man who is…

The Incubator Reality Set To Disrupt Nigerian Startups With Over N1 Billion

The Incubator Reality has created a lifeline to leapfrog and disrupt Nigerian start-ups to increase their capacity and access to funding via a novelty incubation program. A statement by ECSCORP, the Incubator’s architect, said the reality TV show, the biggest and first of its kind in the world, seeks to change the start-up narrative by…

LIRS Urges Employers Of Labour To File Annual Tax Returns On Or Before January 31

In line with the Personal Income Tax Act (PITA) Cap P8 LFN 2011 (as amended), The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) urges all employers of labour in Lagos State to file their Company’s Annual Tax Returns on or before the statutory deadline of January 31, 2021 to avoid penalties. The Agency’s eTax platform, launched…

Abe, Aguma Recruiting Thugs To Disrupt Party’s Membership Registration – Eze Alleges

Ahead of the membership registration and revalidation exercise of the All Progressives Congress, scheduled to commence Monday, 25 January, 2021, intelligence reports have exposed plots by former Rivers South/East Senator, Magnus Abe and his circle of saboteurs, to unleash terror on party faithful in their various Wards and disrupt the exercise through the machinery of…

Police Arrest Abductor, Killer Of Six-Year Old In Kogi

The Nigeria Police Force says it has arrested the abductor and killer of a six year old girl, Farida Yahaya who was kidnapped at the Gabije Area of Kogi State on 2nd November, 2020. According to a statement released and signed by police spokesman, Frank Mba, the leader of the kidnap gang responsible for the…

COVID-19: 24,000 Students Shun Schools After First Lockdown – Sanwo-Olu

One governor in Nigeria who seems to be in agreement with UNICEF’s recent warning that the continuous closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted negatively on children development and could be devastating as the effects will be felt for generations to come is the Governor of Lagos state, Babjide Sanwo-Olu. The agency…

Governor Abiodun Bars Tankers, Others From Plying Overhead Bridges

It was a sad day for the people of Kuto in Abeokuta area of Ogun state as a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit lost control due to brake failure thereby resulting in the death of three people while six others sustained varying degrees of injuries. This incident has prompted the Governor of Ogun state,…

NIN-SIM Linkage Exercise: 47.8million NINs Collected By Mobile Operators – FG

The Federal Government on Tuesday revealed that the ongoing NIN-SIM linkage exercise has reported significant progress as a total of 47.8 million NINs have been so far collected by the mobile operators. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, in a statement issued in Abuja by the Director Public Affairs,…

Eze Clarifies Issues About Amaechi Working And Walking With Crutches

Comments have continued to trail trending photos which captured the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, walking with the aid of crutches during the commissioning of an orphanage home and Arabic School in Kaita Local Government Area of Katsina State on Friday. While details of the circumstances surrounding the Ministers sudden reliance on a walking aid…