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LAMATA Hikes BRT Fares Cities Cost Of Operations

13.02.2025

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) on Thursday increased the transportation fare for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). This was contained in a notice posted by LAMATA on its X handle, noting that the 18 per cent increment would begin next week on Monday, February 17. This was as the management called for the understanding...

You’ve Made Us Highest Paid State In Nigeria, Oyo Pensioners Hail Makinde

13.02.2025

...As gov restates commitment to retirees’ welfare Pensioners from all geopolitical zones of Oyo State, on Thursday, converged at the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, in their hundreds to appreciate the state governor for turning around their fortunes through the recent review of pensions in the state. The pensioners, under the aegis of the Nigeria...

Faction Rejects Inauguration Of Miyetti Allah Leadership In Ondo

13.02.2025

A contestant for the position of President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN), Alhaji Shehu Mohammed B. Sule, has rejected the planned inauguration of leadership of the association in Ondo State. Sule, who addressed reporters in Akure, the state capital, on Thursday called on the national leaders of the association to intervene in the...

Justify Your Appointment, Onuigbo Urges Board Members

13.02.2025

Chairman, Security, Climate Change and Special Interventions Committee on the Governing Board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Samuel Onuigbo, has urged members to justify their appointment, by ensuring that the South East region gets the best. This was even as he also called on Ndigbo in the diaspora to support the commission and...

NBMA Restates Commitment To Safety Of GM Crops In Nigeria

13.02.2025

The Director General/CEO of the National Biosafety Management Agency, Agnes Yemisi Asagbra has reaffirmed the Agency’s commitment to ensuring the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops in Nigeria through a comprehensive Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) framework. This commitment was emphasized during a stakeholder meeting held to discuss the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for PRM of GM...

Lagos Assembly Invites Works Commissioner, Contractors Over Abandoned Roads

13.02.2025

The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on the state government to urgently address the pain of residents in relation to some abandoned roads. The lawmakers at a sitting presided over by Speaker Mojisola Lasbat Meranda particularly mentioned the abandoned Bola Ahmed Tinubu Road in Igbogbo-Baiyeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), urging Governor Babajide...

FG Partners State Govs To Reinforce Campaign Against Open Defecation

13.02.2025

The Federal Government has said it would collaborate with state governors to reinforce the campaign against open defecation across the country. This, it said would be achieved through collaboration with Development Partners, and renewed commitment towards the propagation of the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Country. This disclosure was made by the...

Rivers Court Sentences Tanker Conductor To Death By Hanging

13.02.2025

…neighbours discover man dead in apartment A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital has sentenced a trailer conductor to death for the murder of a mortuary attendant over a parking space disagreement. The court, presided by Justice Boma Diepiri ruled that Eze Kingsley murdered Wagbara David on December 7, 2018,...

Adeleke Raises Alarm Over Plot To Destabilise Osun

13.02.2025

…Directs Security Operatives to Deal with TroubleMakers Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has raised alarm over credible reports of a sinister plot by elements within the opposition parties to launch vicious attacks on Local Government Secretariat across the state including an orchestrated onslaught on leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and top government officials....

Group Condemns EFCC’s Role In Mercy Chinwo, EeZee Dispute

13.02.2025

…Calls for PFN, Christian elders to intervene A Christian youth advocacy group, the Nigerian Christian Youth Network (NCYN), has criticized the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for what it calls unwarranted interference in the ongoing contractual dispute between music producer, Ezekiel Onyedikachi, popularly known as EeZee Tee, and renowned gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo. In...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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