Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Friday reiterated the commitment of his administration to reducing, to its barest minimum, the number of medical cases taken abroad from the state for treatment, saying the capital flight resulting from such foreign treatments was not good for the state. Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House, […]
A CHIEF magistrate court in Osun State has ordered a monarch in the state, Oba Adebukola Alli, the Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of the state, to be remanded in prison custody. The embattled monarch is standing trial for alleged raping of a 23-year-old member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who […]
ALL the 37 cabinet nominees sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor, Babatunde Fashola, have scaled through the screening process and had their nominations confirmed. The Speaker, Mr. Ikuforiji Adeyemi, said that 21 of them would be Commissioners while 16 would be Special Advisers. The exercise, which lasted three […]
The Kano High Court in Gaya, a town some 70 kilometres South of Kano city, was full of life on Wednesday, June 16. The court was hosting a cream of Igbo personalities, including associates and aides and counsel of two Kano-crowned, Igbo monarchs, Nze John Chiejina Nnaji and Chief Boniface Ibekwe, both locked in a […]
More than five months after the face-off between the Anambra State government and its judiciary workers, the state has assured that the striking workers should prepare for resumption of duty. Addressing journalists after commissioning the new High Court in Nnewi, the Anambra State governor, represented by his deputy, Mr. Emeka Sibeudu, stated that the state […]
The 25 local government councils in Niger State would need a whopping sum of N6.5billion monthly to be able to pay the new minimum wage of staff and primary school teachers even as the state government detected 4000 ghost workers in the last staff audit. This was coming on the heels of the disclosure that […]
Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory malam Nasir el-Ruffai was this morning, arrested by the State Security Service (SSS). He was picked up as he landed aboard British Airways flight from London. el-Ruffai has been very critical of the conduct of the 2011 elections and the policies of the Jonathan government. However, It’s not yet […]
GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, yesterday, swore in 25 Commissioners and 12 Special Advisers to serve in his new administration with a warning to them to avoid corruption and laxity or face an early exit from the cabinet. Addressing the officials shortly after they were sworn in, the Governor said that even though much […]
Two suspected robbers were burnt to death, Thursday, by a mob, made up of commercial motorcyclists, popularly called okada riders along Airport Road Effurun, Warri. The robbers, operating on a motor bike, snatched an unspecified amount of money from a customer who just came out from the Oceanic Bank branch, behind Total filling station, at Airport Road, Effurun area […]
Jos – Mr Jacob Wongdem, the Permanent Secretary in the Plateau State Ministry of Health, has announced the outbreak of cholera in some parts of the state. Wongdem, who earlier denied the outbreak of the disease, said in Jos on Thursday that it had killed 10 people. He added that 370 people had also been […]
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