Some residents of Lagos have reacted differently to the planned strike by labour over the increase in the prices of petrol and electricity. Those in support of the planned strike from Monday next week told Lasgidi FM’s CHUKWUEMEKA OBIOMA that it was a step in the right direction. However; another group of concerned Lagos residents expressed fear…
Lagos State Governor, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU, has presented fifty-one Sport Utility Vehicles and eight houses to judges of the State High Court. Speaking during the presentation ceremony at the Ikeja High Court complex, Governor SANWO-OLU promised to always improve on the welfare of judicial officers in the state. He said the presentation of the gifts would help to…
A dismissed policeman, identified as OLOGUNOWA OJO, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing one TAIYE AKANDE in Ajah area of Lagos State over four years ago. Justice OLUWATOYIN TAIWO of the Lagos State Special Offences Court found OJO guilty of the crime, which he committed on February 3, 2016. At the time he…
The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room says the Edo State Governorship election recorded incidents of vote-buying. The Situation Room observed that the problem of vote trading has deepened in the Nigerian political system, as politicians appear to be spending more to influence elections. In its second interim statement on the conduct of the election last Saturday, the…
• 33 states abandon testing The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 has given out one billion naira each to thirty-two of the thirty-six states in Nigeria. This was announced by the PTF National Coordinator, Doctor SANI ALIYU, during a briefing in Abuja yesterday. Doctor ALIYU said the money is meant to sustain the state governments’ response to…
• NPM threatens NLC, TUC over planned strike Nigerians may be in for a week of fuel scarcity, following a ban on petrol tankers above forty-five thousand litres from plying the roads. The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, has responded to the ban by asking its members to suspend the lifting of petroleum products from…