Lagos evacuates 1, 340 beggars, destitutes in one year
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said a total of 1, 340 beggars, destitute and mentally challenged persons were rescued off the streets of Lagos in the last one year, just as it said about 73, 664 patients were screened and helped to trace their homes through various media platforms.
Biafra: Court declines to stop Kanu, others trial
……..as hearing resumes June 20 By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—–Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, declined to suspend further hearing on the six-count treason charge pending against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Tsoho dismissed an application Kanu filed alongside two […]
No protest can force any senator out of office – Ndume
NAN reports that the protesters stormed the National Assembly to demand the resignation of Saraki. The protesters; “Occupy National Assembly” also called on the legislators to conclude all issues on the 2016 budget, return their luxury cars and cut their N115 billion budget.
Court grants Bianca’s prayer to re-open evidence
The wife of late Biafran war lord, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu’s application to re- open her evidence in chief, in a suit she instituted against her husband’s family, was on Tuesday, granted by Justice Abdulfattah Lawal of a Lagos High Court, sitting at Igbosere.
Nigeria spends N132b on fighting malaria annually – US
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Enwinstle, on Tuesday noted that Nigeria’s National Malaria Elimination Programme annually costs her about N132billion
($660million) annually.
11 months after: President Buhari and Nigeria’s security challenges
Just a few months ago news of Boko Haram hoisting flags of its imagined Caliphates across large areas in the North eastern part of Nigeria was no longer news.
