The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, (LAMATA) has declared the 50% fare discount on BRT will no longer be in effect from Sunday. LAMATA announced this on its page on Saturday. According to LAMATA, the temporary 50% fare cut will expire on Sunday, making normal price to resume on Monday. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on August…
The Nigerian Union of Pensioners NUP has dismissed protests, contesting the appointment of Dr Chioma Ejikeme as the Executive Secretary of the Pensions Transition Arrangements Directorate PTAD. Recall that Ejikeme was reappointed as the Executive Director by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu which a minute section of the body protested. But the National body through a…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Onne, Port Harcourt Area 11 Command on Friday says it has intercepted a pistol, 9mm munitions and handed over two suspects, to the Nigeria Police Force. The Command was also said to have generated over N246B between January to October,2023. The Command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Baba Imam made this known…
“Does it ever worry us that history which neither personal wealth nor power can pre-empt will pass terrible judgement on us, pronounce anathema on our names when we have accomplished our betrayal and passed on? We have lost the twentieth century; are we bent on seeing that our children lose the twenty-first? God forbids!” (Chinua…
The Northern Consensus Movement of Nigeria has vowed to stop the supply of food from the North to the southern part of the country. The group made this threat following a recent ultimatum issued by Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho for the Fulani community to vacate Yorubaland within 10 days….
The Federal Government has vowed to lift at least 50 million Nigerians out of poverty within the next 42 months. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, said this while speaking with journalists after a courtesy call on the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, in Abeokuta.the state capital The Minister…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has issued a 5-day ultimatum for the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police in Imo State. The ultimatum is a response to the attack on the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, the Imo state capital on Thursday. Organised Labour made this call in…
Veteran Nollywood actor Amaechi Muonagor has begged Nigerians for financial assistance over an illness he has been battling with for a while now. The actor was recorded on his hospital bed as he explained how he got paralyzed after suffering a stroke; however his condition showed no signs of recovery, after he was referred to…
The Supreme Court has fixed January 26, 2024, for judgment in the appeal by a former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Lawan who is presently in jail. A five-member panel led by Justice John Okoro chose the date after lawyers to parties made their final submissions and adopted their written briefs. Lawan’s appeal…
The Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru has commenced the distribution of 2 million naira each to beneficiaries of his skill acquisition empowerment scheme. In a statement by the Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Leo Ekene Oketa, he emphasized that the scheme is geared towards empowering 1500…
