> The Lagos State Government on Monday said it would embark on a weeklong demolition of distressed buildings in Ebute Meta and other areas of the state. It said that the exercise was to prevent building collapse and safeguard lives and property. This is contained in a statement by Mr Mukaila Sanusi, spokesman of the Lagos State Ministry of Physical...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Monday appealed for stakeholders’ understanding over the discomfort they would experience during rehabilitation works on some bridges in Lagos State. Fashola made the appeal at a stakeholders meeting on comprehensive repair of Eko and Apongbon bridges, held at Ijora-Olopa, in Lagos. Stakeholders in attendance include representatives of Association of Maritime...
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, also one of the party’s presidential aspirants says he has all the qualities to be the party’s candidate rather than an aspirant. He said this on Monday in Katsina while addressing party delegates ahead of its presidential primary election. Tinubu explained that he possessed all the requisite qualities to...
A Non-Political affiliated group, the League of Achina Women Professionals, (LAW-P), has urged Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra to declare a state of emergency in the educational sector of the state. The President of LAW-P, Mrs Chinwe Ezenwa-Mbah, made the call during an N80 million Fund Raising Ceremony to usher in the new executives in Lagos on Monday. The News...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says he is the most courageous and selfless leader to tackle Nigeria’s problems. Wike stated this on Monday in Akure, when he visited the PDP Secretariat to woo delegates ahead of the party’s primary election scheduled for May 28 and May 29. He said...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it rescued 360 people without injuries from 119 crashes nationwide involving 701 people, during 2022 Eid-el-Fitri special patrol from April 29 to May 4. This is contained in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO),Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, on Monday in Abuja. Kazeem said that the figure, according to...
An All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant aiming to return to the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Akindele Adeniyi (APC- Akure North), has called for credible primary election. He said in Akure on Monday after obtaining his Nomination and Expression of Interest forms that it was the only way popular aspirants would emerge as candidates. The aspirant said he was...
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after attending the Summit of Heads of State and Government 15th Conference of the Parties (Cop15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigerian leader had on Monday presented the country’s position at the summit. The president had at...
UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed on Monday called on countries to invest in land restoration initiatives. Mohammed made the call at the opening of the15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She noted that half of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its grain supplies...
The House of Representatives on Monday mandated the NNPC and the CBN to nip the planned strike by airline operators in the bud. It enjoined the two government agencies to provide the required assistance and declared that airline operators should name fuel marketer of their choice to supply them aviation fuel over the next three months. The House enjoined marketers...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says 10,000 public toilets will be constructed in strategic locations across the territory to end open defecation in the FCT. The acting Director, FCT Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), Dr Mohammed Dan-Hassan said this at a sensitisation programme for residents on the risks factors of open defecation, on Monday in Abuja. Dan-Hassan...
The Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar III, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s integrity and accomplishments have endeared him to Nigerians across the country.Shehu-Abubakar spoke in his Gombe palace on Monday while receiving the vice president who paid him a courtesy call.Osinbajo, who was accompanied by Gov. Inuwa Yahaya, was in Gombe State as part his consultations with All Progressives...
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise for Change Initiative has charged the Federal Government to massively step up its efforts to tackle violence against children. Okei-Odumakin gave the charge in a statement on Monday in Lagos. The group president also urged the Nigerian government to do more to tackle the entrenched causes of violence against children. She advised they addressed...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Monday joined religious leaders and others in signing a landmark joint appeal for climate-responsible finance as a moral imperative towards children. The World Council of Churches (WCC), UNEP, Muslim Council of Elders, and NY Board of Rabbis have all signed the Climate-Responsible Finance – A moral imperative and responsibility to all children and the...
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Africa Centre of Excellence For Development Impact (ACE-IMPACT) and the National Universities Commission (NUC) are collaborating to explore digital learning in tertiary education. Institutions made this known in Abuja on Monday, during the fourth training workshop of experts in digital education, hosted by the African Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL),...
Mr Sam Ohuabunwa, a former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Neimeth Pharmaceutical plc and PDP presidential aspirant, has pledged to remove Nigeria from third world countries if elected in 2023. Ohuabunwa made the promise while interacting with PDP delegates in Lagos State. According to him, his interest in the presidential race is to rescue Nigeria and position her in...
A group of nomadic Fulani pasturalists and Almajiri communities has picked the APC Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for former President Goodluck Jonathan, to contest the presidential ticket. Leader of the group Malam Ibrahim Abdullahi told newsmen on Monday in Abuja, after picking the forms that Jonathan should be re-elected to enable him to complete what he began. “My...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it is proposing some guidelines that will enable operators and investors in the capital market to digitise all their operations. The management of SEC in a statement in Abuja on Monday said that the guidelines is contained in the Minimum Operating Standards for Information Technology for Capital Market Operators (CMOs). SEC said the guidelines would...
Cocoa farmers in Ofosu in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State on Monday protested against alleged sale of their farmland to a Chinese company by the state government. The protesters barricaded the Expressway, carrying placards with different demands. Some read: “Respect Our Right to Livelihood’’, “Don’t Give Our Land to Mindless Capitalists’’ and “We Want to Remain Farmers and not...
Immanuel Mulunga, Managing Director of the Namibian National Petroleum Corporation (NAMCOR), will attend and participate in Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector, the African Energy Week (AEW) (AECWeek.com), which will take place from 18 – 21 October 2022 in Cape Town. With Namibia on the brink of both an oil and hydrogen boom due to sizable oil...
