By Oladipupo Awojobi The Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Taiwo Kolawole has said that there is nothing like a Bill on Life Pension for Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the House in the Assembly. He stated this in a telephone interview on Thursday, saying the issue was part of the…
In a motion ex parte filed before an Ikeja High Court on March 6, the court granted an accelerated hearing for motion on notice in the case of defamatory and libelous documentary aired on DAAR Communications, AIT. The granted accelerated hearing comes up on Monday March 16, 2015. The ex parte motion brought before Ikeja…
General Overseer of Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet TB Joshua, on Friday, lost his bid to stop the probe into the collapse of a building in his church in Ikotun area of Lagos State in 2014, which claimed many lives, mostly South Africans. The controversial man of God had gone to the court…
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, returned to Nigeria from London, days after he spoke at the Chatham House in England. His sudden departure from Nigeria to the United Kingdom had generated controversies. The governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, had severally insisted that the former Head of State…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the Presidency to make a documentary aimed at maligning the person of the Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi. It would be recalled that documentaries believed to be damaging were aired on a popular television station in Nigeria on…
Leading financial institution in Nigeria, Diamond Bank Plc, has hinged the success and sustainable growth of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) on strategic planning, corporate discipline and focus. This was made known recently at a seminar held in Onitsha, Anambra State. Business Manager, Diamond Bank, Bridge Head, Onitsha, Raymond Mbonu, said in his welcome address…
The use of card readers for the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will be blocked, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has maintained. Speaking with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, stressed that the party was rejecting the card readers…
The Corps Chief Executive of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ade Abolurin, has disclosed that the Corps has been recording successes in its Commands across the country in their renewed fight against vandals. In a statement issued by the Corps recently, the Civil Defence boss stated that reports from some of its…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has all it takes to convincingly win the March 28 presidential election. Rivers APC Chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said in a statement he issued on Monday in Port Harcourt that, “Whatever doubt that might have…
The adverse effect of the recent dearth in the supply of petrol to filling stations across the country is gradually biting hard on Nigerians. Long queues have since returned to major cities in the country due to the shortage of fuel supply to most petrol stations visited by our correspondents. In most parts of Lagos,…