The establishment of Lagos Traffic Radio in 2012 by the Babatunde  Fashola administration was applauded by Lagosians, especially as it opened up a new vista in the management of traffic in the state of aquatic splendour.

Suspected kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Balla, a.k.a Wadume, who has been in the middle of the raging storm between the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police over the murder of three police operatives and two civilians by soldiers in Ibi town,  has revealed that the bodies of slain policemen were taken to the house of the army officer, who ordered the killing.

The new leadership of the Delta South chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has visited the Senior Political Adviser to the Governor, Chief Solomon Funkekeme with a promise to build a stronger unity among party members in the senatorial district.

Sudan needs $8 billion in foreign aid over the next two years to cover its import bill and help rebuild its ravaged economy after months of political turmoil, its new prime minister said on Saturday, according to Reuters report. Abdalla Hamdok, sworn in three days earlier to head a transitional government after the ousting of […]

He is SAD but definitely not a sad man. Sunday Akin Dare is the new man in charge of the ministry of Youth and Sports Development. The euphoria that greeted his appointment last Wednesday by President Mohammadu Buhari was such that you will think that Nigeria won a major international honour.

YOUTHS in Ikare-Akoko, Ondo State, yesterday, allegedly prevented detectives from the state police command from arresting the parents of the four-year-old girl, said to have been  beaten to death by them for being a witch.

The Communications Technology Ministry, created in 2011, appears to be a more critical ministry, particularly to Information and Communications Technology, ICT, practitioners, considering how technology has clearly introduced a new world, creates new wealth and shapes world economies.

Ex-militant “Generals “have called for a peaceful  governorship election in Bayelsa State, saying that  all political parties and their candidates should ensure a violence-free election.

The Maye of Yoruba land and founder of Oduduwa University, Dr. Abdul-Rahaman Adegoke Adedoyin, has urged Yoruba elders and other stakeholders   to   sheath   their swords and “stop washing our dirty linen in the public”, over the appointment of Professor Adebanji Akintoye as new Yoruba Leader.  

Southern Taraba Youth Forum has refuted the claim in some quarters that the Tiv ethnic group in Taraba State has been politically marginalised by other ethnic groups. 

GENERAL Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles, MFM, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, yesterday, identified spiritual laziness on the part of some church leaders as the bane of multi-dimensional crises in Nigeria.

Although many wrote Ruiz Jr off, the softly-spoken and unassuming heavyweight battered Nigerian-born British pugilist, Anthony Joshua in New York and stunned the world by stopping the seemingly untouchable ‘AJ’.

 Built environment professionals have asked the new Minister of Works & Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who served as Minister of Power, Works and Housing in the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari administration, to be more focused to ensure the delivery of uncompleted works and housing projects he started across the country when he was Minister, Power, Works and Housing now that his workload has been reduced. The President, Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, Mr Kunle Awobodu, who lauded the reduction in Fashola’s workload to Works and Housing, said Fashola couldn’t really perform to Nigerians’ satisfaction as Minister of Power, Works and Housing because he was saddled with so many responsibilities handling three-in-one ministry.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it never budgeted for thugs in the 2019 general election.

The federal government of Nigeria stands accused of letting down its 201 million residents by failing to complete a gas supply and production agreement that would have transformed their lives. Instead, the country will now have to pay $9bn (£7.4bn) in penalties or risk having its assets seized. According to the Guardian UK which published […]