LAGOS—THE Lagos State government has flagged off the continuation of reconstruction of Lagos-Badagry Expressway which had been abandoned in the last four years.

Members of the Abia State House of Assembly have expressed dismay at government parastatals that are owing their staff wages running into months despite receiving monthly subventions from the state government, generating revenues without remitting any amount to the coffers of the state.

LAGOS — THE Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Lt. Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, yesterday, disclosed that the only solution to end  insurgency in the North East and other acts of criminality across the country was synergy among the Armed Forces,  other security agencies  and security stakeholders in the country.

Renowned Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has urged the President Buhari-led government to handle the issue of RUGA settlement carefully as “there cannot be any kind of society where cattle take priority over human beings.”

Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Orji MNSE, has assured staff of the Assembly of better days, saying that their welfare is of utmost concern to him.

The Chairman of the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), Chief Niyi Akinsiju, Tuesday said that President Muhammadu Buhari has achieved more compared to the various achievements recorded by his predecessors, (Goodluck Jonathan, Musa Yaradua, Olusegun Obasanjo, others), during their respective regimes.

Nigerian energy giant, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company, yesterday, announced plans to inject over $5 billion investments in its operations to boost its production to 250,000 barrels per day.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday vowed never to disappoint Nigerians that voted for him during the 2019 Presidential election.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to appoint Niger Delta activist and traditional Prime Minister of Tuomo Kingdom in Burutu and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Delta and Bayelsa States, Chief Mike Loyibo as coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP owing to his cardinal objectivity on the plight of the Niger Delta people.

La Liga is set to have its first female official next season, the Spanish Football Federation announced on Tuesday.

ABEOKUTA— former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that many Nigerians are not happy with their country and want to pull out because they could not get what they want.

With five years to go before the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the first foreign delegations began a two-day Paris visit on Thursday to check out venues and possible base camps.

A former governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, has revealed that but for his intervention, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the late ex-governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, would have exchanged blows at the Presidential Villa in 2002.

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina has chartered a 480-seater plane to take football fans to Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations after the country unexpectedly qualified for the round of 16.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said that the total value of capital importation into Nigeria stood at 8,485 million dollars in the first quarter of 2019.