An 83 year-old retired soldier, Pa Sule Yusuf, who sleeps under the bridge for 17 years in Lagos has rejected the offer of relocation to his country home, Igboora, Oyo State. The Igboora Progress Union (IPU), the umbrella association of Igboora indigenes told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday.
NAN reports that the news of Yusuf’s 17 years sojourn under the bridge was widely reported in the media on January 6, which necessitated the intervention of his community.

TOTAL Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, has said the oil price fall is responsible for the challenging economic environment in Nigeria, while identifying three critical factors for sustainability of the petroleum industry

Simon Achuba was on Tuesday, sworn in as the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, in Lokoja the state capital.

BY BOILUWAJI OBAHOPO LOKOJA – Practicing journalists in Kogi state Tuesday received the shock of their lives as armed security men attached to the government house in Lokoja prevented them from covering the inauguration of the Deputy Governor, Mr. Simeon Achuba. Journalists, mostly from the prints who were rushing from the State House of Assembly […]

The Federal Government says it has concluded plans to employ families of dead victims and other injured persons of the 2014 immigration recruitment stampede.The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja shortly after defending the budget of his ministry before the Senate Committee on Interior, that the ministry would soon issue employment letters to those affected.