Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State on Sunday, May 1, 2016, shocked workers in the state when he announced payment of their May 2016 salary in advance. The governor, during the May Day celebration in Calabar at the UJ Esuene Stadium, said his administration had a duty to give workers in the state a…
A 32-year-old man who claimed to be a pastor in the Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, has been apprehended by security operatives in Ondo State. It was gathered that the suspect, Moses Abiodun, who hails from Esa Oke in Osun State, was arrested on Wednesday evening by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,…
Members of the public have been alerted against consuming re-packaged expired digestive biscuits, which have flooded markets in Lagos State. This warning was given by Chairman of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force), Olayinka Egbeyemi. The former police officer said the re-packaged expired digestive biscuits now sell in all markets…
Workers in Bayelsa State have been assured by the state government that backlog of their salaries would be paid. This assurance was given after a meeting between top government officials and labour leaders in the state, which was presided over by the Deputy Governor, Gboribiogha John Jonah. Jonah disclosed that the state government was working…
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…