The National Orientation Agency in Bayelsa, on Sunday, said it had commenced sensitisation to alert the residents of an outbreak of cholera in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the statewide sensitisation followed confirmation of the outbreak by the state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Seiyefa Brisibe, on January 26. The acting state Director of…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has said some Nigerians complain of corruption but support corrupt leaders in various ways when they are prosecuted. Speaking at the weekend in Abuja during a visit by officials of the Centre for Crisis Communication, led by Chris Olukolade, the EFCC boss pointed out…
Traders under the aegis of Agbajowo Dealers and Artisans Market Association of Owode Onirin of Lagos State, have called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to save them from land grabbers, threatening to chase them away and take over the entire location they were currently situated, doing their legal and legitimate business and allocated to them by…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has accused the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, of dishonesty in the arrears of pensions owed them by previous administrations in the state. Otti had accused the NUP of reneging on the agreement they allegedly signed to forfeit the arrears of pensions owed by past administrations. …
The Ogun State government on Sunday vowed to investigate a trending video, where one Chief Arinola Abraham Love is subjected to a dehumanising treatment allegedly by the Oloorile of Orile Ifo in Ifo Local Government Area of the state, Oba Semiu Ogunjobi. In the two minutes video, Chief Arinola was seen kneeling on the road…
Former Nigeria’s President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that leaders of Ijebu lobbied the then Nigeria’s Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed, to have the capital of Ogun State in Sagamu. According to Obasanjo, who spoke in Abeokuta at the induction ceremony and gala night of Egba Legacy Network, held at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library,…
Since the emergence of Rt. Hon Mojisola Lasbat Meranda as the first female speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly and consequently resumption in office on Monday, January 27, 2025, the Lagos polity had witnessed various activities. At the inception of her emergence, many had wondered if the impeachment of ex-speaker Mudashiru Obasa would hold…
