INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020
Fellow Nigerians
I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion of our country’s 60th independence Anniversary. As...
As part of efforts to ensure a crime-free Eid-el Kabir celebration in the country, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has directed the commissioners of police in all the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as well as their supervisory Assistant Inspectors General of...
A former Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, has died of complications arising from the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
The former University don passed away on Sunday, January 3.
This was confirmed by the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) UNILAG branch, Dele Ashiru.
He said the...
Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has recovered the black box of the helicopter that crashed into a residential building in Opebi area of Lagos State.
This was coming as President Muhammadu Buhari and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, commiserated with families, friends and associates of people who lost their lives.
AIB officials...
President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended indefinitely the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Mr Adebayo Somefun.
The decision of the President was contained in a statement on Thursday from the Head of Press and Public Relations at the Ministry of Labour and Employment,...
General Manager of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Olajide Oduyoye, has berated the lady officer, Odunlami Adepeju, in a viral video circulating online.
Oduyoye described the act of the lady officer as an "unprofessional conduct, misbehaviour and public display of violence," saying Adepeju has demonstrated "poor professional judgement of...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a pan socio-cultural group of the igbos, has distanced the Igbo tribe from provocative statement inciting the destruction of Yoruba assets in Lagos, credited to the leader of proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The group, through a statement issued by the President-General of Ohanaeze...
Executive Chairman of Atlas Petroleum and Oranto Petroleum, Arthur Eze, has categorically denied recent news report of his involvement in a partnership with ADM Energy on the ongoing Marginal Fields Bidding Round in Nigeria.
On August 3, ADM Energy announced its successful pre-qualification in the Nigerian Government's 2020 Marginal Field...
By Tobiloba Kolawole
The threat to the life of anti-corruption activist Garba Abdullahi over his role in exposing alleged misappropriation of N225 million constituency projects involving Senator Philip Aduda, representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has been condemned by the Socio-Economic Rights and...
The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led Lagos State Government has directed all pupils/students in public and private schools to stay at home following the tension generated by the #EndSARS protests across the state.
The Sanwo-Olu administration issued the directive through Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, describing the safety of the...
