The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd), handed over two aircraft in the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force. Monguno handed over the two aircraft, Augusta AW101 Very Important Personality Helicopters to the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, in the presence of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, his Army counterpart, Lt. Gen. […]
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ABULE-EGBA FLYOVER: LAGOS DENIES VIOLATING FEDERAL HIGHWAY REGULATIONS
The Lagos State Government has denied contravening any provision of Federal Highway Regulations while constructing a reinforced concrete dual carriage flyover at Abule-Egba along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. It provided proofs of compliance to the regulations in in a statement by the Head of Public Affairs, the State’s Ministry of Physical Planning & Urban Development, Mr. Shina Odunuga on Wednesday. Different reports […]
Continue reading »WHARF LANDING FEES FACE-OFF: FG ASKS LAGOS TO REFUND BILLIONS OF NAIRA COLLECTED
The Federal Government has asked the Supreme Court to declare the Lagos State Wharf Landing Fees Law No 5 of 2009 unconstitutional and to order the state to refund all the monies collected through the law. The law was passed in 2009 when Babatunde Fashola, now the Minister for Power, Works and Housing, was the state governor. It imposes levies […]
Continue reading »TRAILER CRUSHES SUSPECTED POLICE ESCORT IN CROSS RIVER
An unidentified person suspected to be a police escort was on Friday crushed to death by a trailer that skidded off the road in Ugep, headquarters of Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. The incident, which happened at about 8pm close to the Eckankar Temple along the busy Calabar-Ikom Expressway, was said to have happened after the driver […]
Continue reading »RECKLESS POLICE DRIVER KILLS TWO IN DELTA STATE
A police driver has killed two people while attempting to stop an overloaded commercial bus on the Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi-Uku Expressway, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. Several sources, who witnessed the accident, claimed that the driver of the commercial bus and a male suspect, who the police were taking to the state command in Asaba, died on the […]
Continue reading »NDDC DEBUNKS BAYELSA’S CLAIM ON ROAD REHABILITATION
The Niger Delta Development Commission has debunked claims by the Bayelsa State Government on the rehabilitation of 14 roads in the state. The Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, in a statement in Yenagoa on Sunday described as “untrue and shocking” recent claims by the Bayelsa State Government that it was intervening on the same roads […]
Continue reading »BELLO INAUGURATES N10BN ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN KOGI STATE
The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, over the weekend inaugurated the construction of some roads across the three senatorial districts of the state. According to the government, the projects will cost over N10bn. The 18.3 kilometre-long road networks in the Kogi Central include Agassa-Ahache-Upogoro road, Ogaminana-Ebogogo, Itape-Eika-Kuroko and Obehira-Ihima-Obangede roads in Okene, Adavi and Okehi local government areas. Others […]
Continue reading »NAVY NABS OIL THIEVES, SEIZES ADULTERATED DIESEL
The Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Jubilee, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, have seized three wooden Cotonou boats with 47,000 litres of product suspected to be illegally refined Automative Gas Oil. The commander of the ship, Commodore Saidu Garba, who said this in Ikot Abasi on Saturday, praised the Nigerian Navy for achieving the results.
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