The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has approved the payment of N683 million bursary, and foreign and local scholarship to Lagos State indigenes in tertiary institutions across the country and abroad.

TAIWO “Esepo” Agbaje, on Sunday night, emerged winner of the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy for the best boxer at GOtv Boxing Night 16, which carried a cash prize of N1.5million

HOPAEL Beer She va’s John Ogu was a non-playing substitute in Nigeria’s 4-0 rout of Libya in Saturday evening’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium.

 The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Ecological Fund and related agencies to be proactive in tackling the menace of flooding in Beyelsa and all other states in the federation.

SOME elders of Benue State sympathetic to the Social Democratic Party,SDP,have accused its governorship candidate in the state, of being a mole of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the state governor,Chief Samuel Ortom.

 Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Tuesday lamented the huge food losses recorded by farmers whose farms were washed away in the state by the flood this year.

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has urged stakeholders in Public-Private Partnership(PPP) not to exclude social infrastructure in their projects.

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party on the appointment of the Senate President Bukola Saraki as the Campaign Director General.

Wife of Lagos State Governor and chairman of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials, (COWLSO) Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Tuesday assured participants that the 18th National Women’s Conference of the Committee would be better than the previous editions.

Women Lawyers under the auspices of African Women Lawyers Association, AWLA, Tuesday, condemned the killing of Hauwa Leman, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, by a faction of the Boko Haram sect, the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, on Monday.

The Ekiti state’s economy is heading for a state of emergency with a huge debt of N120 billion, the new governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said on Tuesday in his inauguration speech in Ado-Ekiti. The governor appealed to the federal government for assistance to bail out the state through the Economic Stabilisation Fund. […]

Photos: Fayose visits EFCC office

THE former Minister of Finance,Mrs Nenadi Usman and her family have dragged the Nigeria Police Force,to court over last Saturday’s night brutal killing of their daughter,Ms Anita Akapson,by a police personnel,in Gwarimpa area of Abuja.

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has condemned the murder of Hauwa Leman, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), by Boko Haram insurgents.

Members of the House of Representatives at Tuesday plenary approved the N831,259,220,255.00 billion request for virement of f