Category: City Beat
LASG partners FirstBank to promote access to affordable healthcare
The Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), in its commitment to ensure that residents at the grassroots have access to affordable, effective and quality...
Pension: How Delta, Edo spent over N842m on convicted ex-govs
The Delta and Edo State governments have spent over N842m on pensions and benefits for two convicted ex-governors in the last 12 years.  The two former...
Emefiele: We must stop dependence on crude oil for revenue, FOREX
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has reiterated the need for the country to discontinue with heavy dependence on crude oil to...
APC floors PDP, others again
…As Abiru’s elected as Lagos East senator, continues from where Oshinowo signed off Just as it did in the senatorial by election in Lagos East, the...
At home with Wole Soyinka in Autonomous Rep of Ijegba
By Segun Odegbami It is Tuesday, the 24th of November 2020. The sign posts at the gates reflect the nature of the man who lives beyond them. We leave the entrance and...
Don’t plan coup, Buratai to generals
Chief of Army staff, Tukur Buratai has extended a stern warning to military generals to stay away from politicians and individuals approaching them to plan a...
SARS operatives kill, dump physically challenged man’s body in container – Witness tells panel
A 65-year-old man, Olukayode Omotosho, on Friday, narrated to the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters,...
Head of military junta elected as president of Mali’s Interim Legislature
Mali’s interim legislature on Saturday elected Colonel Malick Diaw, a member of the military junta that toppled president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August, as its...
One dies as police, soldiers foil bandits attack on Kaduna community
A combined team of the military and police on Friday night foiled an attack by armed bandits in Kasuwan Magani community, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna...
Bayelsa by-election: Three policemen drown in Southern IJaw River
Three yet to be identified personnel of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have reportedly drowned on their way to Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa in...
