archiveNovember 2, 2022

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the variation in contract for the repairs of east-west road from an initial N240 billion to N506 billion. Briefing State House correspondents on behalf of the Minister of Works and Housing at the end of the weekly FEC meeting, Senior Special Assistant...

  Co-Founder of Flutterwave, Mr Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, has asserted that over 100 million people in Africa are currently earning living through digital economy. According to Aboyeji who is also the founder of Future Africa, digital economy is the panacea to the economy tension in Africa occasioned by bad leadership and...

  The Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Bishop Humphrey Olumakaiye, who died on Monday, had battled an undisclosed illness in the United Kingdom for six months, officials close to the respected cleric disclosed on Tuesday. Olumakaiye, who died at 53, was the first...

  seals baron’s seven mansions in Lagos, Ibadan, blocks N217m in bank account The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has declared Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi Kazeem (a.k.a) Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed, wanted over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs as...

  The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the appointment of the Director of Lands at the Ministry of Housing, Mrs Olayinka Patunola-Ajayi, as a Permanent Secretary with her immediate deployment to the Ministry of Waterfront Infrastructure Development. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the state...

  highlights gains in the sector, including a world-class gold mine in Osun State says FG will break the Ajaokuta jinx, as transaction adviser has been named towards concession of steel company A fully developed mines and steel sector will not only surpass other sectors of the economy in terms...

In the aftermath of the crisis rocking the party, the national leadership of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, may have called the bluff and moved on with campaigns ahead of the 2023 general election without five aggrieved governors but they would be doing so...

The Management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced that His Excellency, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) will deliver the Realnews 10th Anniversary Lecture. Marwa’s acceptance to deliver the lecture was communicated to Realnews in a...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why he is fully in support of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s move to redesign the naira notes. The CBN had announced last week that will redesign the N1,000, N500 and N200 notes, effective 1 December, 2022; the development that has elicited mixed...

  as New Telegraph set to honour LIRS boss The Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Mr Ayodele Subair, has attributed the success of the unprecedented tax revolution being witnessed in the state, where about 70 per cent of its income is internally generated, to the...