By Elijah Udofia and Oluwafunso Obasan, As the rainy season is gradually reaching its peak, the Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, has called on residents to properly dispose their refuse rather than dumping them in the waterways, so as to guide against flooding. Oba Gbadebo made the call on the sideline…
Daud Olatunji The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday disclosed that his administration was targeting 2,500 housing units for the people of the state within four years. Abiodun disclosed this during the inauguration of 130 housing units in Kemta, Idi Aba in Abeokuta, the state capital. The housing project, christened Prince Court Estate, is…
Agency Report Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will launch the construction of Kano -Kaduna rail project in the next few weeks. Amaechi disclosed this on Friday while speaking at the weekly Presidential Media briefing organised by the State House Media Unit in Abuja. He said…
The Lagos House of Assembly on Thursday debated two bills proposing the establishment of two tertiary institutions – a University of Education and a University of Science and Technology – in the state. The bills, which scaled second reading on the floor of the House presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, were…
Segun Adewole The Nigerian Army has arrested a member of the Islamic State in West Africa Province in Ogun State. The terrorist identified as Mr. Ibrahim Musa was arrested at No. 31 Abartura Street in Sango-Ota, Ogun State. The ISWAP member was on a mission to Lagos to acquire certain items for his group’s operations in Maiduguri,…
Russia is ready to cooperate with the European Union on cyber security, as President Vladimir Putin initiated international cooperation on information security although the idea got no support back then. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this to Sputnik on Monday. Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the EU should discuss cyber…
US President Joe Biden has endorsed a fragile bipartisan deal on infrastructure “without hesitation”, walking back from a threat to veto the plan if Congress failed to also pass a larger package to expand the country’s social safety net. Biden said on Saturday that he did not mean to suggest in earlier remarks that he…
Friday Olokor EX-President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed concern over the increasing crime wave in the country but concluded that most of them were caused by consumption of drugs. Jonathan expressed his views during a courtesy call on him by the Chief Executive Officer of the Albino Foundation, Jake Epelle, its management and partners to appreciate…
A 24-year-old woman, Abibat Kehinde, has been abandoned at Epe General Hospital, Lagos State, over N131,000 unpaid bills, three months after she gave birth to twins at the hospital. Kehinde told newsmen on Friday in Epe that her husband absconded after delivery on March 21, without paying the bills to facilitate her discharge from the…
