To save lives and property, the Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, PPUD, has cautioned banks operating in the state to maintain existing communications masts and towers, warning that it would pull down weak masts occupying airspace in the state.

As part of efforts to ensure adequate security and to check kidnapping in the country, a member of House of Representatives, Alhaji Yakub Balogun, has asked the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to direct all telecommunications service providers to stop all local calls made under the guise of ‘hidden numbers’.

A total of 326 “stranded” Nigerians, including about a dozen children, were brought back home from Libya this weekend, an official statement said on Sunday.

The aviation sector best explains the scenario. For example, it is difficult for the domestic airlines to afford new and functional planes because they don’t have the financial muscle and so they buy relatively cheap and very old aircraft.

A man has been arrested by security agents in connection with an explosion near a church at Obehira, Okene, Kogi.