archiveJanuary 2020

The Lagos State Police Command has summoned leaders of the three unions at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO), for protesting against the controversial doctorate degree of the acting Director-General, Chima Igwe. According tp Punch Correspondent who obtained copies of the letters served on the Chairman of the...

  A highrise building at the popular Balogun market on Lagos Island is currently on fire Eyewitnesses told Breaking Times that the fire started from the building opposite Oluwole Car Park on Martins Street. Details of the cause of the fire incident are still sketchy. Fire fighters are on hand...

President Muhammadu Buhari has downplayed the claims that certain individuals among his aides and relatives, often called “cabals,” have an influence on his government. “I was the one who went round the country on campaigns, and I was the one voted into office as President, twice. No one else did,...

The World Food Programme (WFP) says it will like to collaborate with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to strengthen School Feeding Programme and other humanitarian affairs. Mr Paul Howe, Country Director of WPF, stated this when he visited the Minister, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq on Tuesday...

  The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim on Tuesday in Jos said that the service would soon start revenue generation. “We are going to start generating revenue and in our next budget we are going to include Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). “When we generate the...

  The Nigerian equities market on Tuesday extended bearish stance, dropping further by 0.59 per cent with a loss of 0.59 per cent. Specifically, the market capitalisation lost N90 billion or 0.59 per cent to close at N15.132 trillion compared with N15.222 trillion achieved on Monday. In the same vein,...

  The Lagos State Government says it will upgrade the agricultural supply chain by connecting all value chains with the newly established Eko City Farmers Market. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Gbolahan Lawal, made this known on Tuesday at a Stakeholders Meeting on the implementation of Eko City Farmers’...

Amb. Adnan Bostaji, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Nigeria, has met with the First Lady, Aisha Buhari with a view to strengthening humanitarian cooperation with her Future Assured Programme. This is aimed at meeting the needs of displaced persons. This was made known in a statement by...

  The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it will begin conduct of compulsory eye test for drivers to ascertain quality of vision to reduce Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) in 2020. The FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, said this at the corps operators’ meeting with Zonal Commanding officers (ZCO)...

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says road construction has enabled the government to create jobs and promote procurement. Fashola made this assertion on Tuesday during his inspection tour of the Jebba-Mokwa-Bokani road in Niger. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the road is one of...