archiveFebruary 13, 2020

The Supreme Court has sacked the governor-elect of Bayelsa State, David Lyon, and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo. A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to the All Progressives Congress’ candidate as the...

A survey by NOIpolls, a polling service, has revealed that at least 66 per cent of Nigerians do not use condoms during sex with persons not their regular partners and or spouses. The result of the survey, which was carried out in partnership with the National Agency for the Control...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the late music icon, Sir Victor Olaiya, as a legend of his time, whose music signposted a great epoch in the history of Nigeria. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the minister said Olaiya’s death, even at...

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has asked the Federal Government to extend the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which he described as the busiest road in the country, to at least a ten-lane-road pattern. Abiodun added that the population explosion being experienced in the country has made the six-lane-road pattern on the...

  Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, the engineering construction contractor handling the 2nd Niger Bridge project, has set February 2022 as the deadline for the completion of the project. Julius Berger Project Manager, Mr. Friedrich Wieser, gave this assurance last Tuesday when the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola,...

  warns Buhari against visiting Borno again   Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau has given a condition under which the remaining Chibok schoolgirls in captivity would be released. In a video, the Boko Haram released on Thursday,  24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari visited Borno, Shekau said...