Osinbajo presides over FEC meeting

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja. President, Muhammadu Buhari, is still in London where he is undergoing routine medical checkup. At the commencement of the meeting, council members observed a minute silence in honor of a […]

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Gas expansion project’ll lift 100 million from poverty – Sylva

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Federal Government has said that it would lift no fewer than one hundred million Nigerians out of poverty through the implementation of National Gas Expansion Programme. The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, who spoke in Owerri, the Imo State capital, at the opening ceremony of the National Gas Expansion

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Ramadan 2021: Remember Nigeria in prayers, Lawan urges Muslims

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has urged Muslims on Ramadan to remember Nigeria in their prayers as the country seeks to overcome the challenges it is facing. This was disclosed in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Ola Awoniyi. Lawan further urged them to stress the messages

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FAAN Tasks Airport Users On Complying With COVID-19 Protocols

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has urged passengers, drivers and other airport users, particularly those at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed local Airport to always comply with all laid down protocols on COVID-19 to ensure the safety of all airport users. FAAN declared that, in line

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FG Meets Striking Judicial Workers Today

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Federal Government will meet the striking judicial workers over the lingering crisis in the sector; even as the leadership of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria has declared that the seven-day-old strike will continue until their demands are met. However, the union also declared that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim

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CP dismantles road blocks on Lagos-Badagry expressway

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, on Saturday ordered the dismantling of all illegal police road blocks on Lagos-Badagry expressway. The state police command’s spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement that Odumosu gave the directive on Friday while addressing Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in

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LASU student, others kidnapped on Warri-Benin Highway

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA An accounting student of the Lagos State University, LASU, Olowa Kehinde, was at the weekend abducted with others along the Warri-Benin Highway while coming back to Lagos. Speaking in an interview with Newsmen in Lagos, the Public Relations Officer of the LASU Student Union Government, Adams Zaenab Olawunmi, said immediately the leadership

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BREAKING: Resident Doctors Suspend Nationwide Strike

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have suspended their nationwide industrial action. This comes 10 days after the doctors commenced the strike, leaving many patients unattended across various government-owned hospitals in the country. The President of NARD, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, confirmed the suspension of the strike to newsmen on

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BREAKING: Sports festival continues, FG counters Edo govt

BY DEJI OGUNSOLA The Federal Government says activities at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Edo State would continue as planned. This is against the earlier announcement by the Local Organising Committee that the festival would end abruptly 12noon on Thursday (today). The Federal Government made this known in a statement by the, Assistant Director

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