Drake shatters Adele’s record of Most Awards Won
Drake was named the top artist at Sunday’s 2017 Billboard Music Awards, breaking the record for the most awards won in a single year with 13 total wins.
Apapa-wharf roads: Fashola assures of rehabilitation works soon
MINISTER of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said that work will soon commence on the rehabilitation of dilapidated Apapa -Wharf roads.
NCAA orders Ethiopian Airline to stop extorting passengers
THE Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, yesterday ordered Ethiopian Airlines, ET, to stop the extortion of passengers and desist forthwith the illegal collection of unauthorised charges.
FG, states, LGs, share N1.41trn in Q’1 2017
The Federal Government, the 36 states and their local government areas have so far shared N1.4 trillion from the federation account, being revenue generated in the first quarter of 2017.
Submit petitions against corrupt judges to NJC, CJN tells Nigerians
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has asked Nigerians to petition any judicial officer involved in corruption or any form of unprofessional conduct in any part of the country to the National Judicial Council, NJC.
Boko Haram threat: Security on high alert in Abuja
Following threats by Boko Haram to attack Abuja, security agencies in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have declared their readiness to combat all forms of threat to lives and property by intensifying intelligence efforts, surveillance and raiding black spots within and around the city.
World Bank approves $500m loan for SIP —Presidential aide
Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, said, weekend, that the World Bank has approved $500 million loan for the Federal Government’s social investment programme.
We came to raise capital for our poor parents —13-yr-olds who fled Abuja for Lagos
Two teenagers, who fled their parents’ home in Abuja for Lagos because of what they described as their parents’ poor conditions, have been re-united with their families.
17 arrested over Cross River, Akwa Ibom boundary crisis
Military men permanently positioned on the Cross Rivers State side of the Calabar-Itu Head Bridge have arrested 17 persons involved in the attacks in the boundary dispute between Oku Iboku clan in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and Ikot Offiong in Odukpani Local government area of Cross Rivers State.
NPFL: Enyimba, FC Ifeanyiubah, Lobi Stars win on the road
The NPFL returned with a big bang Sunday with Enyimba, FC Ifeanyiubah and Lobi Stars winning on the road, while leaders Plateau United and Akwa United recorded away draws.
Collapsed Lagos building: Death toll now four
Three days after a three-storey building under construction collapsed in Isolo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, another body has been recovered from the rubble, raising the body count to four, with 19 injured—all male.
