archiveJanuary 2021

Over 60 per cent of the workforce on the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project are currently battling with COVID-19 infection. The Minister of Transportation, Hon Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this on Monday when he appeared on a television programme. Amaechi said that as a result of this, the commissioning of...

  The Commandant of Oyo State Security Network Agency, Operation Amotekun, Colonel Olayinka Olayanju (retd), has said that there were no clashes between his men and Fulani herdsmen in Ibarapaland and Oke Ogun axes of Oyo State. The commandant, who addressed newsmen in Ibadan, said that his men launched six...

  The Lagos State Government may have lost more than N2.5billion in its projected revenue due to the closure of the Lekki toll plaza and the Ikoyi Link Bridge toll plaza in the last 95 days. According to The PUNCH, the figure was obtained from the daily and monthly targets...

Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has felicitated with Prof. George Obiozor on his election as the President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo. Obiozor, also a former Nigerian Ambassador to the US, Israel and Cyprus, polled 304 votes to defeat his only rival, Mr Valentine Oparaocha, who...

The workers unions of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, on Monday locked all the entrances leading into the institution thereby disrupting the resumption of the institution for academic activities after the Christmas break. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers unions comprise the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and...

 A team of experts commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to search for the origins of the COVID-19 is scheduled to arrive in China on Thursday, after a long, strained application process. China’s health commission in Beijing on Monday initially issued a one-sentence statement saying the experts will work...

  Mrs Funmi Falana, wife of constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 state governors in the country to resign if they can no longer tackle insecurity in Nigeria. Falana who is also a lawyer and a human rights activist,...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that confirmed cases of coronavirus have risen to 100,087 in the country even as the country now has 1,358 deaths. This is coming 45 weeks after the country recorded its first COVID-19 case on February 27, 2020, according to data available...

*We must at every opportunity insist that every great multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation has through thick and thin, fought to realize the great dividends of diversity and pluralism. REMARKS OF HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, DELIVERED BY THE SECRETARY TO THE...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), All-Share Index and Market Capitalization depreciated by 0.37 per cent to close last week at 40,120.22 and N20.978 trillion respectively. However, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NSE Premium, NSE Lotus II and NSE Industrial Goods which depreciated by 2.99 per cent,...