Lagos – Bolt (formerly Taxify), the leading on-demand transportation platform in Africa, has on 30th August launched operations in Port Harcourt.

—Pensioners in Abia State, yesterday, urged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to consider their plight and pay their 32 months pension arrears and 19 years unpaid gratuities.

TOYOTA and Suzuki will take small equity stakes in each other, the Japanese carmakers said, as they seek to develop newer technologies and meet sweeping changes upending the global auto industry. The tie-up is the latest example of automakers chasing scale to manage costs and boost development. Automakers – especially smaller ones like Suzuki – are struggling to meet the breakneck growth of an industry transformed by the rise of electric vehicles (EVs), ride-hailing and autonomous driving.

mo State government has revealed its plan to inject N3.9 billion in the education sector of the state.

Following the closure of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has offered free transport, security services and affordable accommodation to Ebonyi citizens in their movement from Ebonyi State to Owerri Airport and back.

Some security experts on Thursday suggested collective efforts in fighting corruption and insecurity in the country.

 The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has urged staff of the ministry to shun all forms of corrupt practices in the conduct of government business.

AS governors of six states of the South-West zone of the country fine-tune plans to launch a joint security task force to check the excesses of herdsmen and other miscreants, the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, DAWN, yesterday, disclosed that the security network will be funded by a zonal security trust fund.

THE Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of police helicopters to tackle the increasing rate of criminal activities in the country.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission probing how the sum of $8.5 billion meant for the payment of compensation to communities for right of way for the $16 billion power project in 2006, have obtained more documents exposing how the cash was diverted by top government officials, Vanguard learned last night.