archive2021

  A Structural Engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding...

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a new salary structure for officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, made this known to State House correspondents at the end of the Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has faulted talk that President Muhammadu Buhari has nothing more to offer, saying it is untrue, fallacious and smacks of dirty politicking. This is as he revealed the effort of the regime in tackling insecurity which now has in addition banditry and...

  The Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, approved the award of the contract for the dualisation of the Ibadan Airport Road and some link roads at the cost N4.9 billion. The Commissioner for Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin, who made this announcement, while briefing journalists after the...

gives nod to $10m grant component    The Senate on Wednesday approved the sum of $5,803,364,553.50 USD and a grant component of N10 million USD under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. Chairman of...

The undemocratic takeover of government in some West African countries has created a great challenge for Electoral Commissions in the sub-region, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Speaking at today’s plenary of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions’ (ECONEC) 7th Biennial General Assembly holding...

Positive sentiments returned to the Nigerian equities market on Wednesday following investors’ interest in Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) and 18 others. Specifically, the market capitalisation inched higher by N21 billion or 0.10 per cent to close at N22.102 trillion against N22.081 trillion recorded on Tuesday. Also, the All-Share Index...

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, arraigned 15 suspected invaders of the residence of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suspects were arraigned before Justice Nkeonye Maha on 18-count amended charge bordering on forgery, criminal trespass, intimidation, extortion, among others, contrary to the sections...

Africa is being left behind, having received only 450million of the eight billion COVID vaccine doses distributed. Dr Richard Mihigo, Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme, Coordinator World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), made this known while speaking on “Vaccination in Africa: Research Capacity, Advocacy, Manufacturing and Distribution”,...

Ahead of the 2023 poll, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally dropped the hint that he would aspire to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, who had a closed-door meeting with Northern elders under the aegis...