One of the officers of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, identified as Mr. Ola Oyesina was Saturday evening hacked to death by mob around Igamu area of Lagos State. Recall that similar incident happened in Apapa area of the state about two years ago. According to LASTMA source, the victim was attacked tat about […]
Nigeria and Iran have agreed to set up a binational commission that will promote trade, investment, agriculture and technology transfer, following a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and Iranian Vice President for Economic Affairs, Mohammad Nahavandian, on Friday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Speaking at the bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of the 5th Summit […]
The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission deepened on Friday when the House of Representatives differed with the Senate over the status of the Interim Management Committee set up by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President forwarded the 2019 and 2020 budgets of […]
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked the national assembly to discard the social media and hate speech bills. The association asked the legislature to devote its time to solving issues on poverty, insecurity, bad roads and poor education. Samson Ayokunle, CAN president, made the call in a statement by Samuel Kwamkur, the national […]
A 23-year-old man, Kevin Lusala, has been found guilty of the murder of 22-year-old Nigerian-born, Ayodeji Habeeb Afeez, who was lured to his death in Bromley, United Kingdom. Lusala of Eldred Drive, Orpington, was found guilty of fatally stabbing Azeez on November 4, 2018, in a car park at the rear of Grace Mews in […]
The number of registered contributors under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) as at September 2019 has grown to 8.85 million, as pension fund assets stand at N9.58 trillion, the Acting Commissioner, National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Aisha DahirUmar, has said. She spoke on Thursday at the just concluded 2019 Journalists Workshop held in Benin, Edo […]
Football’s world governing body has announced plans to raise $1bn dollars to build at least one stadium meeting Fifa standards in each African country. Fifa president Gianni Infantino was talking in Lubumbashi during the 80th-anniversary celebrations of DR Congo side TP Mazembe. He insisted that Fifa wants African football to shine and will work with […]
Contract Violation: Nigeria vows to resist enforcement of N3.2 trillion judgment after British court ruling The Nigerian government has provided a bond of $200 million to a court in the United Kingdom, as part of efforts to overturn the $9.2 billion judgement debt against it, in favour of an Irish firm, Process and Industrial Development […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday re-sent the $29.96bn 2016-2018 external borrowing plan to the Senate for its consideration and approval. Buhari made the request a day after the International Monetary Fund warned Nigeria against rising debts. The Debt Management Office has said out of Nigeria’s total debt profile of N25.7tn as of June 2019, external […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate seeking an amendment to a section of Nigeria’s current Companies and Allied Matters (CAMA) law. His message was contained in a letter read out by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the start of plenary on Thursday. In the letter, the president wants to preserve the powers […]