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BENIN CITY— UNENDING litigations and citizens’ encroachment into government right of way have been attributed to the delay in the completion of the dualisation of the Benin-Auchi-Okenne-Lokoja highway, which reconstruction has been on since 2013. The Federal Controller of Works […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, struck out a suit challenging the nomination of Ademola Adeleke as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Osun governorship election. In his judgment, the presiding judge, Justice Obiora […]

THERE were indications, yesterday, that the shutdown of Nigeria’s national grid by workers, under the aegis of National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, put the nation’s security at great risk, according to experts. Recall that the nation is currently experiencing […]

As the 2022 NBA Annual Conference begins today the 19th of August 2022, with registration of delegates from all the states in the country, Adebola Lema, a past Secretary of the NBA Lagos Branch, Boldly welcomes delegates to the City […]

THE Federal Government, yesterday lamented that some governors of Northern States are “destroying” education at the primary school level through bad policy. The government also picked hole on the almajiri system inherited from the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, saying that […]

Kaduna state governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Jonathan Asake, has said that his party has volunteers across the country that will serve as agents to protect their votes in the 2023 general elections. Asake said that the volunteers […]

Following the statement credited to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Umana Okon Umana that “the President has submitted names of nominees for the board (of NDDC) to the Senate, when the Senate reacted, there were litigations about whether […]

The Auxiliary Catholic Bishop of Abuja, His Lordship Most Rev. Anselm Umoren; a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Damian Dodo; and the Director of Public Enlightenment, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Arinze Orakwue, have urged the […]

KANO—The Court of Appeal in Kano, yesterday, ordered a retrial of the death sentence handed to the singer accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. A Shari’a court in Kano sentenced Yahya Sharif Aminu to death on August 10, 2020, […]