By Abdulfatah Babatunde Sanwo-Olu’s Commissioner-designates list, Classical religious bigotry – Gbadamosi The Lagos Muslim community, on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest to express dissatisfaction with the list of commissioner-designates by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu. TheNewsZenith reports that out of 39 commissioner nominee slotsSanwo-Olu allotted only eight to Muslims and 31 to Christians, thus raising anger from […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu says his administration will soon take measures to stabilise the supply and demand of petrol in the country. The Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, announced this on Tuesday in Abuja. Ngelale said the measures would involve addressing the inefficiencies in the downstream and midstream oil sector. The President said there was no […]
British Police says the number of online child grooming crimes it recorded hit a record high in 2022, a children’s charity said on Tuesday. The charity, therefore, urged progress on stronger cyber safety laws. Citing data from all British Police forces, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said it recorded […]
Tanzanian authorities said on Monday that they intercepted a fuel tanker ferrying 65 Ethiopian illegal immigrants in the southern highlands, an official said. Majid Mwanga, the Mlele District Commissioner in the southern highlands region of Katavi, said officials from the Immigration and Tanzania Forest Services Agency intercepted the empty fuel tanker at around 1.00 p.m. […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it plans to address speculations in the foreign exchange market by injecting more dollars into market. This is even as the Federal Government proposed to inject more dollars into the market. Acting Governor of the CBN, Folashodun Shonubi, announced this while addressing journalists after meeting with President Bola […]
An Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday sentenced a teenage boy, Ishola Yusuf, to two years and three months in Borstal Correctional Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun for attempted theft. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, sentenced Yusuf to the Boys Correctional Facility also known as Borstal Correctional Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The magistrate sentenced the […]
The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has appealed to the Federal Government to preventing further hike petrol price. Mr Adeolu Ogunbanjo, National Deputy President of NAPTAN, made the appeal during an emergency meeting of the association on Monday in Lagos. President Tinubu, in his broadcast to the nation in July, said the government […]
Gov. Seyi Makinde, on Monday in Ibadan, inaugurated a 12-man governing board for the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed “Amotekun”, operating in Oyo State. The governor restated his administration’s commitment towards ensuring that the state is secure and habitable for all and sundry. He pledged to continually support the corps with logistics, health insurance, training […]
Members of ECOWAS Parliament were divided over taking military action as an option to tackle the political situation in Niger Republic. About 22 parliamentarians participated in the virtual extraordinary meeting, on Saturday, to discuss the political crisis in Niger. Some of them called for actions that would nip in the bud of military incursion into […]
Andoni Local Government Council of Rivers, on Friday, disbursed N5 million in business grants to 50 persons living with disabilities (PWD) in the area. The Council Chairman, Erastus Awortu, distributed N100,000 to each of the beneficiaries at Ngo, the council’s headquarters. Awortu said the money was take-off grants for beneficiaries. The funding followed a four-day, […]