The Lagos State government said it has concluded arrangements to begin mapping the entire landscape of the state through its Geographic Information System (GIS) project in the first quarter of this year. Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Innovation and Technology, Mr. Tubosun Alake, who made the disclosure in Lagos during […]

Motorists will have to endure additional 12 months of  nerve-racking traffic on the 35-kilometre Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota highway  in Lagos for its  reconstruction to be completed. Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, who inspected work on the road in company with President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said on Sunday that the road would be delivered end of […]

Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has faulted the Federal Government’s claim that the fate of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, lies in the hands of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai. The proscribed IMN, also known as Shi’ites, said the attack, arrest and detention of El-Zakzaky were masterminded by Federal Government agencies in the past four […]

Twenty-three year-old Adeeko Owolabi has narrated how he lured a final year female student of the Lagos State University (LASU), Miss Favour Daley-Oladele, to a church in Osun State. Owolabi lured the victim, 22, to a Cherubim & Seraphim Church at Ikoyi-Ile in Osun State where he allegedly killed the girl  while she was asleep […]

The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmed Lawan, has pledged to run non-partisan leadership in the National Assembly. Lawan stated this on Sunday in Damaturu at the ‘Grand Reception’ ceremony in his honour and Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mr Abubakar Aliyu. “I can take it upon myself to run a non-partisan Senate, […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday conducted sympathisers round the marine security post’s scene of the attack on his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, with a call on security agents to ensure the arrest and prosecution of the gunmen who carried out the attack. The assailants had stormed Jonathan’s country home on December 24, at […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja appealed to Nigerians not to give room for terrorists to divide the country along religious lines. The president’s appeal came on the heels of the recent execution of some Christians and Muslims by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). In a statement, Senior Special Assitant to the President […]

THE Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the newly-released “Guide to Charges by Banks and other Financial Institutions”, which reviewed downward some electronic banking transaction charges. Its Director-General, Mr. Timothy Olawale, said: “The new guideline is indeed, a welcome development in some part, as it will make […]

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says the corporation will soon introduce e-ticketing for train services across the country. Its Managing Director,Mr Fidet Okhiria,  said yesterday in Abuja that the processes involving the commencement of the e-ticket platform was at its final stage. “The e-ticketing has gone to advanced stage, the process is on, we are […]

Nigeria may experience another round of electricity blackout with the deterioration of trade union relationship between workers in the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and their national umbrella body, the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC). According to a statement sent to THISDAY, the TCN branch of the SSAEAC are currently at […]