The Lagos State Government has signed a Waste Management and Processing Concession Agreement with ZoomLion Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Ghana’s Jospong Group of Companies, under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative aimed at revolutionizing the state’s waste management system. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu presided over the formal signing ceremony with the Chairman of Jospong Group, Dr….
The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to reconsider its decision to impose a ₦700,000 charge on traders at the Onitsha Head Bridge Market to reopen their shops, describing the move as “unjust and insensitive.” In a statement shared…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu, has commended President Bola Tinubu for intervening in the recent mass sealing of buildings in Abuja by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration, while criticising the actions of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, stating that he is behaving like Nigeria’s alternate…
President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his commitment to protecting the rights, dreams and futures of every Nigerian child. Tinubu made the pledge in a message to mark the 2025 National Children’s Day. “Across every school, community, and home in Nigeria today, you are the most precious part of our national fabric, the heartbeat of our…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has explained how he was able to survive what he described as evil plan of former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, to kill him, after his arrest, alongside General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and business mogul and winner of the June 12, 1993 elections, Chief Mko Abiola, attributing his survival to…
President Bola Tinubu has intervened in the ongoing sealing of properties belonging to ground rent defaulters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), granting a 14-day grace period for them to settle their outstanding obligations and regularise their documents. This was announced by Mr. Chijioke Nwankwoeze, Director of Land Administration in the FCT, during a briefing…
Nigeria’s First Lady and wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has doled out a cash award of Twenty-Five Million Naira to Guinness Record holder for the world’s largest art canvas, Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo Okeke. Kanyeyachukwu, a 15-year-old autistic artist, set the record in November 2024 by creating a massive painting featuring a multi-colored ribbon, the…
Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has sacked the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state, Barr. Cyprian Akaolisa. A statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Hon. Declan Emelumba, in Owerri, Monday, noted that the sack was with immediate effect. The governor directed Akaolisa to hand over…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, on Monday, made good its threat to seal the Wadata Plaza, national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the inability of the party to pay requisite fees regarding ground rents for 28 years. Officials of the Administration were earlier at the Wuse Zone 5 office of the…
Factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Barr. Julius Abure, has said the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, lacks the authority to negotiate any sort of coalition with any group on behalf of the party ahead of the 2027 polls. Abure also said contrary to speculations in some quarters that…
