Benue Killings: 2Baba calls for urgent action, says ‘we can’t pretend anymore’
Nigerian music icon, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has condemned the continued killings in Benue State, describing the attacks on communities in Otukpo Local Government Area as unacceptable. The Benue-born singer spoke on Wednesday during a visit to Otukpo-Nobi, one of the communities recently attacked by suspected armed herders. The visit came weeks after […]
I didn’t promise decongestion of Oshodi-Apapa expressway in 60 days, says Sanwo-Olu
GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, yesterday, denied promising to decongest the Oshodi-Apapa expressway within his first 60 days in office but said his government would carry out a review of previous activities on the road within 60 days
Buhari, Sanwo-Olu meet over Lekki, Badagry Seaports
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on plans to develop the Lekki and Badagry seaports in order to decongest the Apapa port.
Fire razes Orita-Aperin market in Ibadan, as goods worth millions of naira destroyed
GOODS worth millions of naira were on Friday midnight destroyed at the popular Orita-Aperin market in Ibadan, following a fire incident that its course was yet to be known.
Breaking: Sanwo-Olu increases LASTMA officers allowances
Lagos State Governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced one hundred percent increase in the allowances of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA officials to encourage and motivate the workers in the performance of their duties and also in fulfilment of his vision to make traffic management and transportation number one priority in his administration.
Man cries for help as wife dies after delivery of triplets
HELPLESS Emmanuel Amadi whose wife died following delivery of triplets in Elele Alimini, Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers state, has cried out for financial support to sustain the babies.
Mother, child, six others perish in multiple crash
A multiple auto crash occurred Wednesday night along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, leaving eight persons dead, with 12 others severely injured.
GRAPHIC: Herdsman beheads girlfriend in Ekiti
There was confusion at Ilasa-Ekiti in Ekiti East yesterday as an unidentified young herdsman chopped off the head of his girlfriend with Cutlass.
Edo residents hail Obaseki for reclaiming erosion-plagued roads, streets
Following the completion of construction work on some roads and streets in Ekehuan axis of Benin City, residents in the area have expressed appreciation to Governor Godwin Obaseki, for acting promptly in rescuing their hitherto erosion-prone neighbourhood.
ACCDA congratulates Dapo Abiodun
Arepo Central Community Development Association, (ACCDA) an umbrella development group comprising no fewer than twenty estates and communities in Arepo, has congratulated the new Governor of Ogun state His Excellency, Prince Dapo Abiodun and his deputy Engr. Mrs. Noimot Salako-Oyedele as they assumed the mantle of leadership of the Gateway State praying that their administration and tenure in office will surely usher Ogun state into its Greater Greatness.
‘We killed our master, daughter after taking tramadol with Indian hemp’
THE decomposing corpses of a 71-year-old father Kwakye Kwaku Richard and his 27-year-old graduate daughter Kwakye Tope have been recovered by police detectives sixteen days after they were strangled to death by two Hausa security guards in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
