The Ogun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service says it has intercepted a truck loaded with 190 bags of foreign parboiled rice in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The command also said its men and officers also intercepted a tipper truck along Ilaro-Papalanto axis loaded with 200 bags of the same content. In a […]
Continue ReadingThe Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has dissolved all transport unions in the state. In the interim, he named a 13-man committee to coordinate the activities of road transport trade unions. Also on Monday, the Governor constituted an ad-hoc Committee to coordinate the 2019 Hajj operations for the State Muslims faithful performing this year’s […]
Continue ReadingFormer President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and his Ghanaian counterpart, Mr. John Kufuor have tasked the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to act on the political situation in the West African Country of Republic of Benin. In a statement jointly signed by the former African leaders, titled […]
Continue ReadingThe National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has threatened to move against African Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM over some reports it considered unfavourable. The regulatory body accused the broadcast stations of airing “offensive, unfair and unprofessional” content in violation of its rules. In three separate letters, Mr. Armstrong Idachaba, the commission’s director of broadcast monitoring, […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the inauguration of Prince Dapo Abiodun as the fifth Civilian Governor of Ogun state, three staff unions of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic; Non-Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (NASU), Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, (SSANIP) and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (ASUP), have suspended their industrial actions to honour him. NASU and SSANIP have been […]
Continue ReadingThe General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has been slammed by prominent Nigerians for saying Nigerians should not criticize President Muhammadu Buhari. Kumuyi, widely respected for his preaching on holiness and the fear of God, said it was ungodly for Christians to attack constituted authorities. He spoke during a church […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the state’s 2019 appropriation bill of N873.5bn into law, as he appended his signature to three other bills. The bill had been passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly over a month ago and presented to the former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for his assent. Ambode had […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of state and local government police. This was contained in a statement by the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, Anthony Ojukwu, on Monday, during the submission of report of the Presidential Panel on the reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has declared that the state government may soon start implementing death penalty on bandits’ informants in the state. The governor announced this on Sunday when he visited Lilo village of Wonaka district in Gusau Local Government Area of the state. He was at the village to sympathise with the […]
Continue ReadingThe Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Mutiu Olaniyi Adio Sunmonu as an interim management of Oando Plc, pending the constitution of a substantive management for the indigenous oil company. Sunmonu was a former managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria. His team will organise an Extra-Ordinary General meeting of the troubled company on […]
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