Some protesters earlier today blocked Mbiama-Yenagoa junction on the East-West Road in protest over the appointment of a Sole Administrator for the NDDC. The protesters stopped the movement of vehicles on the federal highway, which runs from Akwa Ibom though Rivers, Bayelsa, and down to Delta state. In a separate interview with Lasgidi FM News Desk, a…
• Senate approves NDDC’s 2020 Budget The two chambers of the National Assembly have passed the 2021 Budget of the Federal Government, after ten weeks and four days. The ‘Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience’ passed by the Senate, is thirteen point five-eight-eight trillion naira. The amount is over five hundred and five billion naira more than…
• Gov MATTAWALE denies sponsoring bandits State governors from Nigeria’s Northcentral geopolitical zone have held a meeting in Makurdi, Benue State. The agenda of the meeting is to find a solution to the security challenges in the northern part of country. These include terrorism in the northeast, banditry in the northwest, and communal killings in the northcentral.…
Security operatives in Lagos State have seized more than one hundred and thirty commercial motorcycles for driving on restricted areas. Members of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Agency also arrested five vehicle drivers for driving against traffic and obstruction of traffic. The arrests and seizures were made when the task force operatives moved into the Abule-Egba…
The popular Millennium Park in Abuja has been shut down due to the second wave of Covid-19 in Nigeria. The decision was reached by the Federal Capital Territory Administration with a view to check the spread of second wave of the coronavirus. Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, BASHIR AHMAD, confirmed the development in a…
Former Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, ENOCH AJIBOSO, has died at the age of sixty-eight. AJIBOSO, who also served as Chairman of Agege Local Government, died in the early hours of yesterday at his hometown in Osun State. The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, SEYE OLADEJO, said AJIBOSO’s death was shocking…