Lagos begins airlift of Jerusalem pilgrims
lagos—THE Lagos State Government has commenced the airlift of pilgrims to Jerusalem with the first batch of 350 pilgrims who departed for the Holy Land at the weekend.
Many feared dead in Kogi as Ebira, Bassa clash
LOKOJA—Many were feared killed, while houses were burnt in Bassa-Komo, Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi State yesterday, following a fracas between the Ebira and the native Bassa people.
FG needs to be pushed before doing the needful – ASUU
ABUJA—Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said yesterday that the Federal Government has developed a pattern of not being proactive on addressing issues affecting the university system unless some industrial action was taken by the union.
Fashola laments community use of charms to chase away contractors in Akwa Ibom
Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has said that use of effective communication was vital in resolving major crisis confronting the power sector of the economy. Fashola, spoke on the backdrop of difficulties encountered by contractors and officials of the ministry in the course of construction of the recently inaugurated 330KV switching station in Essien Udim in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Wrong use of Logo: YDP vows to seek cancellation of Edo, Ondo guber elections
The Young Democratic Party, YDP, yesterday, vowed to seek every legal means to ensure the total cancellation of the just concluded governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States over alleged wrong use of its logo on the ballot papers by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Man in prison custody over fake insecticide
Lagos—Justice Abdulazeez Anka of a Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, remanded a 38-year-old clearing agent, Yakubu Kabiru, in prison custody over alleged importation of fake and unregistered insecticide.
