Lagos State Government has disclosed that not less than 800 houses will have to be demolished for the proposed 4th Mainland Bridge to become a reality. This information was disclosed by the state’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ganiyu Johnson, at a Ministerial Press Conference on Monday in Ikeja. He however noted that government…
The Lagos State Government on Monday announced plans to upgrade the network of roads in Ikeja to improve and boost the economic stature of the seat of Government to world class standard and to reduce traffic gridlock around the corridor to the barest minimum, just as it revealed readiness to expand the Awolowo Way with…
A man believed to be in his late 20s recently went berserk in Lagos when he put off his clothes, holding a jerry can to be used for the purchase of fuel. Despite pleas from stunned onlookers to him to put on his clothes and stop the embarrassment, the man refused. Even some policemen were…
Come September 2016, Benue State will clock 40 and activities have been lined up to celebrate this in a special way. Benue State was created in 1976 during the military regime of late General Murtala Mohammed and the middle belt state has continued to grow from strength to strength. Today, the state remains one of…
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has stated that with the demise of the former Deputy Governor of the state, Chief Rafiu Bakare Adeyefa Jafojo, Lagos State and Nigeria, have lost a great patriot whose penchant for equity and justice was well known. Obasa, reacting to the death of the former…
By Njamanze Fidel The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, is expected to address a major press conference on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. A statement issued in Asaba, signed by Henry Ebireri, Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, said the conference would take place at the Press Centre, Delta State House of Assembly…
Two persons who claimed to be cocoa dealers were on Wednesday arraigned by the Department of State Security, DSS, before an Isolo Magistrate Court for allegedly cloning the mobile line of Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, in order to perpetuate a N50 million fraud. The suspects, Rilwanu Jamiu and Balogun Stanley Oyewole, were said to…
Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Army are in Rivers State to see places damaged by the military earlier in 2016. The committee, led by Rimande Shawulu Kwewum, was taken round properties destroyed by soldiers, who unleashed terror on inhabitants of Ogoni communities. Part of the places visited on Tuesday, April 19,…
The trial of former Chairman, Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Edo State, Akerejola Joseph Folorunsho and five others slated to begin on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 before Justice E. A. Edigin of the State High Court, Benin could not go on as planned as the defence is challenging the competence of the court to entertain…
For stealing a Holy Bible from a man returning from fellowship, two men have found themselves in prison, where they will live for the next 60 days. Augustine Victor, 28 and Richard Ejiofor, 20, were convicted at the Lagos Magistrate’s court in Lagos on Monday by presiding magistrate, Mrs J.O.E Adeyemi without an option of…