The Senate yesterday considered a critical bill that would see to the eventual repeal of the obsolete Quarantine Act enacted in 1926, and help Nigeria deal with any impending outbreak of infectious and contagious diseases in the future. The Health Emergency Bill, 2021, which scaled Second Reading on the floor during plenary, also does not […]

The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, in company with the Chairman, Governor’s Advisory Council, Senator Hosea Agboola a.k.a. Alleluyah, on Wednesday, received some loyalists of a former governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, into the Peoples Democratic Party at the Government House. The defecting members of the Zenith Labour Party, led by the state […]

A former Interim National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Tijjani Tumsah has expressed confidence that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) would positively affect Nigeria’s economic growth Tumsah, in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, described the former Finance Minister as a worthy ambassador […]

By Collins Nweze The Federal Government recognizes Lagos State as central to the economic fortunes of Nigeria, President Mohammad Buhari said yesterday. In his goodwill message at the ongoing Lagos Economic Summit – Ehingbeti-  themed ‘‘For a Greater Lagos: Setting the Tone for the Next Decade’- the President said the economic potential of Lagos remained […]

With the recent swearing in of the only Peoples Democratic Party member in the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hammed Shittu writes that the party may be rejuvenated to reclaim its pride of place in the state The race to the 2023 general may have commenced in Kwara state with the recent swearing-in of the […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted two suspected fake military officers in a new VIP edition of Toyota Hilux Jeep loaded with a total of 394 compressed parcels of illicit drugs concealed in different parts of the vehicle. The suspected fake military officers – Mohammed Nura and Abubakar Dahiru, were intercepted by […]

The Lagos State Government has announced plans to shut the Third Mainland Bridge from midnight, Friday, February 19 to the midnight of Sunday, 21, 2021 for final rehabilitation works. The bridge, which has been under repairs for the past six months will be shut to allow the contractor to cast the final rehabilitated expansion joint […]

As part of efforts to reconcile members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and reshape the party ahead of the 2023 general elections, the party’s Reconciliation and Strategy Committee, led by former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday met with former President Goodluck Jonathan, in Abuja. The meeting came amid speculations that the ruling All […]

Bandits have killed a student of Government Science College Kagara in Niger State and abducted several others, including teachers. The attack on the school occured at about 2am on Wednesday. Details of the incident is still sketchy but the Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) Alhaji Ibrahim Inga confirmed the incident. […]

A 34-year-old graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kelvin Monye, was on Monday sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin for romance scam. Monye, a graduate of Agricultural Science, was convicted on two counts of cheating by impersonation and portraying himself as a white […]