Falade Oyekan, GM of LNSA demonstrating the different cameras available and their setbacks “Have they started wearing body cameras? Yes, they have started wearing it. Now, are they everywhere? The answer is no, they are not everywhere just yet?” As part of the efforts of the Lagos State Government to improve the professionalism and accountability […]
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The Senate has queried the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for spending about 90 per cent of its revenue on salaries and emoluments of staff of the Commission. SEC had disclosed that it spent over N6 billion on staff salaries with other overhead costs totaling about N8 billion in 2021 – an expenditure which the […]
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to establish the Real Estate Regulatory Council of Nigeria. The Council when established would, among others, curb fraudulent practices to ensure that the real estate business confirms with the National Building Code in Nigeria. The bill which scaled third reading during plenary is tagged: […]
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Towards ensuring growth and investment in the mining sector, the federal government has announced that the amendment of the Nigeria Minerals and Mining Act (NMMA) is underway. This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, at the opening ceremony of the 5th annual mining week, themed; “Seven Compelling Reasons to Invest in […]
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The death toll from the violent attacks on Sunday and Monday in Illela and Goronyo Local Government Areas of Sokoto State has risen to 45, Governor Aminu Tambuwal has said. On Wednesday, Tambuwal said he was briefed about the gravity of the attacks during a visit to the affected areas. The governor was initially reported […]
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Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, The first defendant in the case of murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, left the apartment, where the alleged murder occurred, a night before body was found. A security guard at the apartment said this on Wednesday while testifying before a Lagos high court as the second prosecution witness […]
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American President Biden The United States Department of State yesterday removed Nigeria from its list of religious freedom violators. It announced its list of designations for state and non-state religious freedom violators, according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The most severe category of designation, called the “Countries of Particular Concern (CPC)” […]
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Justice Doris Okuwobi, retired, submitting the report to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Analysts commend panel Lagos State government in its first reaction to the viral report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, which leaked on Monday, said yesterday that it had noted the various reactions […]
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The ongoing civil conflict in Ethiopia is partly engendered by the exclusionary policy of the Ahmed Abiy government. Thus, the Tigrayans are locked in a brutal civil war with the Addis Ababa government on the autonomy question despite the clear provision in that country’s constitution on the management of the national question. Perhaps a cautious […]
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The novel Coronavirus has pushed some 30 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa into extreme poverty and dwarfed more than five years of progress, according to a report released, yesterday, at the ongoing Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. The Bloomberg Economics Special Report, titled, “Long COVID: Jobs, Prices and Growth in the Enduring Pandemic,” noted […]
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