As the country wrestles with increasing expansion and a rising neediness rate, the sum of 4 billion naira has been budgeted for the renovation of the presidential quarters of the president in Dodan barracks, Lagos. The supplementary budget, as proposed, includes significant allocations for various items, such as the renovation of the President’s official residence…
Mo Zhotian Construction Company, a Chinese engineering firm has offered 600 students from Igwebuike Grammar School Awka, scholarship. According to the Managing Director, Tu Makuan, the scholarship which is for students from SS1 to SS3 would run for one academic year. She stated that the gesture was part of the firm’s corporate social responsibility in…
Kayode Egbetokun has been officially confirmed as the substantive Inspector-General of Police by the Nigeria Police Council (NPC). The new IGP replaced Usman Baba, appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari on April 6, 2021. Egbetokun, who enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force on March 3, 1990, would clock 35 years in service by September 2024….
The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timipre Sylva, said the judiciary has vindicated itself with the Court of Appeal reversing the nullification of his candidacy. Speaking on a live television programme monitored in Awka, Sylva said “I just feel relieved because it was confusing when that judgement came, but I feel very…
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm 10 new Resident Electoral Commissioners for a term of five years. The request was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Tuesday. The newly appointed RECs were nominated last week to serve in the Independent National Electoral…
The Lagos state government has shut down 34 corporate organizations for failing to remit Personal Income Taxes of their employees and for non-remittance of consumption taxes. The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Head, Corporate Communications, Monsurat Amasa-Oyelude, confirmed this in a statement issued on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Some of these companies to include…
The SS3 student accused of forging her JAMB result Ejikeme Mmesoma has obtained her international passport and she due to travel abroad for further studies. A concerned Nigeria Gauis Chibueze awarded Mmesoma a scholarship after she was suspended by JAMB for falsifying her UTME results. According to social media sources, Ejikeme Mmesoma is now ready…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. The Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, stated this on Social…
King Charles III commenced the second day of his trip to Kenya on Wednesday after acknowledging that there was “no excuse” for colonial-era abuses during Britain’s rule of the East African country. King Charles has previously made three official visits to Kenya, but this is his first tour of an African and Commonwealth nation since…
The traditional ruler of Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Igwe Chidubem Iweka has called on the five South East governors to convoke a meeting to rescue the zone from terrorists. Igwe Iweka who spoke during a traditional ceremony in his community; Obiora festival said other Igbo stakeholders need to…
