archive2020

Personnel of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, popularly referred to as taskforce, have demolished over 1,700 shanties and containerised shops around Fagba Railway lines, Agege. The Head of Public Affairs Unit, Lagos State Task Force, Adebayo Taofiq, stated this in a statement on Sunday. The chairman...

Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the appalling security situation of the country. She described him as having zero use. Yesufu was on Sunday reacting to the killing of no less than 43 farmers by Boko Haram terrorists in a farming community in Borno State. In...

Shehu Sani, former Kaduna Central Senator, has condemned the killing of over 40 farmers by Boko Haram in Borno State. Sani lamented that Nigeria was bleeding in the hands of evil. Boko Haram had killed some farmers on rice fields at Zabarmari, in Jere Local Government of Borno State. The...

The Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has commiserated with the people of Zabarmari in Jere Local Government Area of the state over the killing of no fewer than 43 farmers by Book Haram insurgents on Saturday. The victims of the attack lived in Zabarmari, a farming community in Jere...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed grief over the killing of farmers on rice fields at Zabarmari in Jere Local Government of Borno, describing the terrorist killings as insane. The president made the condemnation in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja...

  Wife of Mr. Olugbenga Ale, Chief of Staff to Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, who was kidnapped in Ondo has regained freedom. Mrs Ale was kidnapped on Thursday evening along the Ondo-Akure Expressway at Owena area in the Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State while travelling from Lagos...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 2.19 per cent to close the week at 34,885.51 and N18.228 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NSE CG, NSE Banking, NSEAFR Bank Value, NSE AFR Div Yield, NSE MERI Growth...

  Ask Buhari to restructure security architecture, insist on removal of Service Chiefs   A group of Northern Elders under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace Development have commended the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar for demonstrating the courage to speak on the deplorable security...

The Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector alliance formed to eradicate coronavirus from Nigeria, has revealed plans to support government’s efforts in rebuilding the economy. This follows the mayhem caused by hoodlums who hijacked the EndSARS protests, resulting in vandalism, loss of lives and disruption of the existing state...

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) on Friday said members were losing their share of the African manufacturing industry to other countries on the continent on a daily basis on account of closure of Nigerian land borders. MAN president, Mansur Ahmed, disclosed in a statement titled ‘MAN’s Position on the...