The police in Lagos have arrested a 25-year-old woman, Joy Okeke, after her boyfriend, Ofoagbu Ekene, reportedly diverted 40,000 litres of diesel worth N7.2m and fled. Okeke was apprehended along with a teacher, Lukman Kelani, who was said to have stood as a guarantor of the fleeing suspect at Northbridge Oil, which employed him as a driver. The company had […]
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No fewer than 37 vehicles loaded with illegally imported bags of rice have been impounded by men of the Ogun State command of Nigeria Customs Service, while three suspects were also arrested in connection with the crime. Briefing journalists at its Idi-Iroko Border Station on Wednesday, the Deputy Comptroller in charge of Enforcement, Mohammed Gagyo, said the vehicles loaded with […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he would never take the love and support the people of the state are showing to him for granted. The governor, who said it was not in his character to repay good with evil, added that this had always prompted him to give his best to the people despite the economic rating and […]
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The Senate on Wednesday decried the deplorable state of roads across the country, saying that the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency lacks the capacity to handle the task of road management. The Senate also canvassed the need to invite private investors in road infrastructure through the concession of some federal highways.
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