Category: City Beat
Aso Rock: Soyinka says Buhari not in charge
Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says he does not believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of the country. Speaking on Thursday during an interview...
Deep seaport investment only way to make Nigeria’s ports efficient NPA MD
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, has said the focus of the agency going forward is to aggressively drive investment in...
Mayhem in Kogi as many feared killed in bank robbery
The relative peace that has reigned in Kogi after last years governorship election was punctured Thursday as an unspecified number of people were said to have...
Horror in Ibadan, 19-yr-old girl raped, killed in parents’ house
A 19-year-old female student, identified as Barakat Bello, has been raped and stabbed to death in Ibadan, Oyo State, by yet-to-be identified persons. The year one...
Budget slash for education, health in preferfnce for NASS insensitive – PDP
… Demands immediate 100% Increase The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the slashing of the 2020 budgetary allocations for basic health care from N44.4...
FCC: Senate confirms appointment of 37 nominees
…As Buhari seeks confirmation of REC, replaces dead nominee on Commission The Senate on a Tuesday confirmed the appointment of 37 nominees forwarded to the upper...
Bello calls for end to Almajiri system
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has advocated end to the current practice of the almajiri system of seeking Islamic knowledge in a country far away from the...
Set of twins for Gani Adams
Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Tuesday, welcomes a set of twins in a private hospital in Lagos. Adams made this known in a statement issued in...
Again, CRS bars 11 trucks carrying Almaniris from entering state
The Cross River Government in collaboration with Peace Corps Nigeria have intercepted and sent back 11 trucks carrying Almajiri, Quranic education pupil, at the...
Fresh lock down: LASG asks residents to decide
The Lagos State Government has asked residents to determine if a fresh lockdown should be imposed on the state or not in the face of current development following...
