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The Lagos Police Command on Sunday banned all forms of protests and gatherings in the state. This is coming on the heels of the planned second phase of #ENDSARS protests billed to commence Monday in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and other cities. Organisers of the protests who have been raising...

The senator-elect for Lagos-East senatorial district and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tokunbo Abiru, has promised to translate his campaign promises into tangible outcomes for his constituents and Lagos as a whole. Abiru, who spoke in a ‘Victory Speech’ shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared him...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday congratulated the All-Progressives Congress (APC) candidates for Lagos East Senatorial District, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru and Lagos Assembly Kosofe Constituency II, Mr. Obafemi Saheed for emerging victorious at the by-elections held on Saturday. According to the results announced by Independent National Electoral Commission...

  as 155 youths in agribusiness get over N30 million   The founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola has told President Muhammadu Buhari that the nation would only overcome the challenge of insecurity and others with a new constitution that will capture the agitation of many...

Mr Kenneth Okoineme, Public Finance Analyst Consultant, has advised journalists covering health issues to track budgetary provisions on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) funds in the country. Okoineme made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of a 3-day Annual Health Conference of Association...

A cleric, Rev. Tajan Moltok, the Jos Resident Pastor of Shepherd House Assembly International, has condemned the use of sex toys for sexual gratification, saying it is a perversion of nature. In his sermon titled: ‘Understanding the Anointing’, the cleric condemned the act during the anointing service on Sunday in...

Many secondary school students in Sokoto State do not know much about HIV and AIDS due to cultural and religious restriction to sex education in schools in the state. Some of the students, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Sokoto on Sunday, expressed...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, upheld the conviction and death sentence that was handed to Maryam Sanda, daughter-inlaw to a former Chairman of the PDP, Mohammed Haliru. Delivering judgment,  Justice Stephen Adah, who read the decision on behalf of the three-member  panel of justices held that the...

Gov. Darius Ishaku of  Taraba on Friday presented a budget of N139.46 billion for 2021 to the State House of Assembly for approval. Ishaku said at the ceremony that the budget was made up of N82.9 billion recurrent expenditure, representing 59.4 per cent and N56.50 billion capital expenditure, representing 40.5...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday declared the 2020 edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair open, reiterating the Federal Government’s commitment to revamping Nigeria’s Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the trade fair, which is being promoted by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and...