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The Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Friday travelled to Owerri, the Imo state capital via the Sam Mbakwe Airport. The purpose of his visit to Imo state is to woo party delegates ahead of the All Progressive Congress’ presidential primaries billed to hold later this month. He was received …

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Gusau Depot, has threatened to stop transporting petroleum products within Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara and parts of Katsina state. The threat came following the Federal Government’s failure to settle its N40bn outstanding payment to IPMAN members, IPMAN’s Zonal Chairman, Yahya Kamba, said. According to …

The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to clearing out commercial motorcycles, popularly known as okada, from the city’s highways. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, said commercial tricycles (keke), are also not excluded from the state’s drive to …

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Friday lifted a curfew imposed on Sokoto metropolis over the unrest that followed the killing of Deborah Samuel. The Governor also banned all forms of procession in the state indefinitely. Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, was lynched by a mob …

For allegedly selling his wife to human trafficker and selling his two years old son, Police officials in Ogun State have arrested a 36 years old man, Kingsley Essien. He was alleged to have sold his son for N600,000, while he sold his wife to a human trafficker at N1.4 …

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has demolished over 30 houses which it described as illegal at Trademore Estate, Lugbe in an attempt to prevent incessant flooding in the area. Ikharo Attah, Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement to FCT Minister, led the operation. The operation was carried out …

The Lagos State Government says the seizure of commercial motorcycles by the Lagos State Task Force will continue in spite the June 1 deadline. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Wednesday issued a fresh total ban on okada use in six Local Government Areas. These are Eti-Osa, Ikeja, Lagos Island, Lagos …

The Secretary to the Kogi State Government, Dr. Folashade Ayoade, has resumed as a part-time lecturer at the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, in the state. She took the job with a promise of impacting knowledge on the young ones and also to serve as inspiration to them. …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Adamu Tutuwa as the substantive Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi FIIRO, Lagos. The appointment is contained in a statement signed Friday, in Lagos by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and …

Zamfara State Chapter of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed rumours circulating in some social media and other online platforms which said the party had suspended its chairman over anti-party issues. Debunking the rumours when he interacted with journalists in Gusau Thursday, the Deputy Chairman of the Party, …