Monday, 23 December, 2024

Month: July 2023


The Lagos State Government says the recent demolition of distressed buildings in Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Council was neither a witch-hunt nor intended to acquire the land but done to protect lives. Mr Gbolahan Oki, General Manager, Lagos Read more…


President Bola Tinubu has advised former Vice President and presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to allow the judiciary to carry out its sacred duty without harassment. President Tinubu said attempting to discredit an Read more…


A federal high court in Abuja has restrained Ned Nwoko from transacting with promissory notes issues with respect to the Paris Club refund. Nwoko is one of the beneficiaries of the controversial payment of $418 million to consultants — a Read more…


Mr. Kunle Ogunba (SAN), counsel to Ecobank Plc in the alleged Honeywell debt recovery saga, yesterday dragged the law firm of Wole Olanipekun & Co. before the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and the Body of Benchers. Ogunba urged the Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Police operatives in Anambra State Command have smashed a notorious kidnap gang operating in Anam axis of Anambra West LGA. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the command, Tochukwu Ikenga (DSP) revealed this in a press Read more…


Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that the bridge to Crimea is not civilian infrastructure, but a key logistical route for Russia’s “militarizing” of the peninsula, insisting Kiev was within its rights to target it using any means necessary. The Crimean Bridge Read more…


James Onanefe Ibori, former Delta State governor, has expressed sadness over the confiscation of over £100 million from him. A judge in London on Friday ordered the confiscation of 101.5 million pounds ($130.34 million) from the former governor who was Read more…


Former Military Administrator of Delta State, Air Commodore Luke Ochulor (rtd) is known for his bluntness on national issues. In this interview with STANLEY UZOARU in Owerri, he expresses his mind on a number of issues, including why leader of the Read more…


The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi at the February 25, 2023 election have both blasted President Bola Tinubu for saying that nullifying the election that produced him as Read more…


DANIELS IGONI examines the Bayelsa State’s Oil and Environmental Pollution Commission’s findings on the devastation caused by oil exploration in the state, the culprits and the way forward Bayelsa State holds the enviable record of being the first state in Read more…


The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed that a couple, their two children and others died from suspected generator fumes in their residence at Nkwele Ezunaka, near Onitsha. The Onitsha-based trader, his wife, two children, mother in-law and newly arrived Read more…


The management of the University of Lagos UNILAG, Akoka, Lagos,  has increased the school fee payable by undergraduates. The management of the University of Lagos UNILAG, Akoka, Lagos,  has increased the school fee payable by undergraduates Previously, students of the Read more…