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A leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Kunle Ajibade, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. According to Punch Metro, the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at his house and trailed him to a hospital where he ...

  The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) – brainchild of Industrialist, philanthropist and founder of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has provided a grant of 2.5billion Naira to the Edo State Government towards the equipping of the New Stella Obasanjo Hospital in Benin City currently being reconfigured, upgraded, ...

  Kano Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday expressed deep pains and grief over the death of 36 persons in a boat mishap in the State. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Badau village of Bagwai local government area. Seven of the victims are in an intensive care centre of Bagwai ...

  The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, has refuted some claims made by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and his Labour and Employment counterpart, Festus Keyamo, regarding the judicial panel constituted by the state to investigate the October 2020 #EndSARS protests. Mohammed had dismissed the ...

Lagos 2022 Budget Scales Second Reading As Committees Begin Work The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, on Tuesday committed the 2022 Appropriation Bill of the State to a joint committee on Finance and Economic Planning and Budget after deliberations by members. Recall that ...

  A former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, was on Tuesday re-arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was arrested at a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State. The All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, who was in court over his forgery trial, was exiting ...

      National grand winners have emerged in this year’s Shalina Young Talents Awards (SYTA) organized by Shalina Healthcare, a leading pharmaceutical company in Nigeria.   They emerged after a keenly contested competition amongst the final year pharmacy students in universities across Nigeria.   The grand event took place ...

  In a tweet on Tuesday, Dorsey said he was leaving after 16 years of co-founding the company and occupying the positions of CEO, chairman, executive chairman and interim-CEO. The 45-year-old billionaire said he had come to realize that it was “severely limiting” for a company to continue to be ...

  The Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday visited the embattled leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), facing terrorism-related charges before Justice ...

  National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a businesswoman, Mrs Olayinka Adisa, a Saudi Arabia-bound passenger who ingested 80 pellets of cocaine. She was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while ostensibly on her way to perform Umrah (Lesser Hajj). NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, stated ...