Vandalised footbridge at Five Star Bus Stop, along Osodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos Lagos residents have lamented the disappearance of rails on footbridges and bus stops provided to protect pedestrians and other road users across the state. According to them, most of the protective rails installed at bus stops by the last administration have been vandalised or […]
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Credit: Twitter/Drahmadlwan/TopeBrown IPAC, women groups laud FG, seek implementation, affirmative action Barely five days after assenting to the Electoral Act 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate to amend the newly-signed act. The President, in a letter addressed to the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, and read at plenary yesterday, demanded the federal lawmakers […]
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By Mike Asuquo SUNNY OJEAGBASE (SO) was a ground-breaker and a self-made entrepreneur beyond the traditional bounds of the media! He was a man who mastered the art of the possible – a grand master of overcoming the odds once he set his sight on the goal! Before him – and long after he switched […]
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Dr Sunny Emmanuel Ojeagbase, the founder and executive chairman of Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspapers, SuccessDigest and other online publications, has passed on. He was 71 years. The media entrepreneur, according to a statement signed by his son, Julius Ojeagbase, passed on on Saturday, 26 February 2022, in Atlanta, in the US […]
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Lagos State chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, has responded to a query issued to him by the national headquarters for alleged insubordination. In a letter, Akinsanya stated that he faithfully complied with the laws guiding the union’s operations, adding that he would “never do […]
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No fewer than 12 persons were burnt to death in an auto crash involving a Toyota Hiace bus and a J5 bus along the Kano-Kaduna expressway, Monday. The spokesman, Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Yusif, who disclosed this, yesterday, said the accident claimed the lives of all passengers on board. According to Yusif: “We received […]
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Commercial motorcycle riders queuing for fuel at a filling station in Akure, Ondo State… yesterday. Photo: Sam Olusegun Alade • Kaduna, Ilorin motorists sleep at filling stations • Marketers deny blending of adulterated petrol, say product yet to be evacuated • We’ll not lift PMS for depot owners selling above N148.77, says NUPENG • NMDPRA, […]
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Alaafin, Aregbesola, Ooni Two foremost Yoruba royal fathers, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, met with the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday in a move to reconcile the two feuding politicians. Though the details of the meeting were sketchy as of the time of filing […]
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, said he was not invited to the peace meeting between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday. It was gathered that the meeting took place at the private residence of Alaafin […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that efforts have been intensified to deal decisively with issues of kidnapping and disruption of schools by criminals across the country. He said this at the National Security Seminar organised by the Alumni Association of the National Defence College (AANDEC) on Tuesday in Abuja. The seminar with the theme, […]
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