The Minister of Information and Culture, LAI MOHAMMED, has said the celebration of Nigeria’s sixtieth independence anniversary will not be done in a big way. LAI MOHAMMED told newsmen in Abuja the decision of the government to scale down the celebration is because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. However; MOHAMMED said the Diamond Jubilee celebration…
At least thirty people have been injured and more than twenty houses destroyed in a gas tanker explosion around Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State. However, IBRAHIM FARINLOYE of the National Emergency Management Agency said fifteen people were injured, while eighteen buildings and thirty-five shops were affected. The explosion at Balogun Bus stop on Thursday afternoon, September 24,…
• President Buhari demands Enforcement Agencies to sit up Kogi State has been thrown into mourning following the death of at least twenty-three persons in a petrol tanker explosion. The accident happened yesterday on the Lokoja-Abuja Highway, around Felele area of the state capital, and those who were burnt to death include five students of the Kogi…
The Federal Executive Council has approved a contract of nearly two billion dollars for a rail line that runs into Niger Republic. The Minister of Transportation, ROTIMI AMAECHI, said the one point nine-five-nine billion dollars’ rail track would run through the Nigerians cities of Kano, Dutse, Katsina, Jibia and Maradi in Niger Republic. AMAECHI told State House…
Former national chairman of the All Progressive Congress, ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE, has finally accepted defeat in the Edo State governorship election last Saturday. OSHIOMHOLE had led a campaign to unseat Governor GODWIN OBASEKI whom he helped to put in office in 2016 after they both fell apart. The former Edo State governor had wanted to install preferred candidate,…
Edo State Governor, GODWIN OBASEKI, has been visiting his fellow PDP governors in the South-South to thank them for their support during his re-election campaign. Governor OBASEKI first stopped at the Rivers State Government House in Port Harcourt, Wednesday, September 23, 2020, to see Governor NYESOM WIKE, who was the Chairman of the PDP Campaign Committee for…