The Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Housing, Barakat Odunuga-Bakare, has disclosed that the state’s monthly rental scheme will be enforced before the end of 2024 or early next year. She stated it during a recent press briefing of the Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority in Ikeja, Lagos. She said, “We all see…
The Lagos Rail Mass Transit System is a significant development in Lagos State, Nigeria, with both the Blue Line (already operational) and the upcoming Red Line Rail, to be launched by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Let’s explore how these rail projects contribute productively to the environment. The Lagos Rail projects will no doubt help in…
he crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a dramatic twist on Wednesday as Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, stormed the party secretariat in Abuja, demanding a Certificate of Return for winning Edo PDP gubernatorial primary election. Shaibu emerged the standard bearer for the upcoming September 21 Edo governorship elections at a parallel…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday visited Ondo State where he paid a condolence visit to the home of late former governor of the state, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu in Owo Town, the palace of the Olowo of Owo and the home of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti in Akure… See images here as compiled from online sources by Olufemi…
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in the Ikeja axis of Lagos State to commission the Lagos Red Line rail. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had in December 2023 when he unveiled the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line Ikeja Overpass promised that the rail would be unveiled by Tinubu before the end of the first quarter of…
President Bola Tinubu will, tomorrow, inaugurate the second metro line system in Lagos, making the state the first sub-national government to have two intra-city train systems. When he performed the groundbreaking of the Red Line Train on April 15, 2021 (after the COVID-19 pandemic), Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu never had a clue how he was being positioned…
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, on Wednesday, disclosed that the Federal Government had enrolled about 750,000 Nigerians into the National Health Insurance Scheme. Pate stated this at the third edition of the ministerial press briefing series initiated by the Ministry of Information in Abuja, noting that the President Bola…
President Bola Tinubu is expected to arrive in Ondo State soon for a condolence visit to the family of the late governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, in Owo. It was also learnt that the President would visit the Olowo of Owo Kingdom, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye, after which he will visit the national leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political…
The African Export-Import Bank on Wednesday, disclosed that it has become the largest financier of oil and gas projects in Africa. The bank disclosed investing $30bn in industry projects, with Nigeria receiving 60 per cent despite reduced global funding for hydrocarbon ventures in Africa President, Afreximbank, Prof Benedict Oramah, said Africa has to find innovative…
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee, on Tuesday, summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, to unfailingly appear before it on March 5, 2024 over issues relating to alleged leakages with the e-payment solution platform, REMITA. The Reps fumed that Cardoso’s failure to appear before the committee during previous sittings…
