Social media censorship bill: ‘Senate can’t be intimidated’ to surrender’
AS criticisms continue to trail the ongoing bill by the Senate to censor social media in the country, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said no amount of attacks arising from it would make the Red Chamber abandon the proposed law.
Fake bank alert: Police arrest suspected kingpin in Lagos
A middle-aged man, Pius Asomba, suspected to be the leader of a notorious syndicate that specialized in dispossessing businessmen of large sums of money through fake bank alerts, has been arrested by the police in Lagos.
KOGI: How Bello, Wada ‘ll share 49,989 votes
All eyes are on today’s pronouncement of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on the outcome of penultimate Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State. How the court rules would determine whether or not tomorrow’s scheduled supplementary election to conclude the November 21 governorship election go ahead.
11 years after, Senate urges Buhari to reintroduce toll gates
THE Senate, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency reintroduce toll gates on the nation’s highways to create a financial pool through which bad roads could be maintained and rehabilitated.
8 LAGBUS staff arrested for allegedly issuing fake tickets
LAGBUS Asset Management Company, operators of Lagos Metropolitan Red Buses, yesterday said it had arrested eight of the company’s staff for allegedly issuing fake tickets to commuters.
420,000 die annually from contaminated foods —WHO
The first ever global estimates of food-borne diseases carried out by the World Health Organisation, WHO, has revealed that not less than 420,000 people died yearly from eating contaminated food.
