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The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has refuted allegations circulating on social media that its operatives are responsible for a dead body found hanging by the gate of an estate along the Lagos-Shagamu Expressway. LASTMA general manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, […]

The Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), a public procurement advocacy group has cautioned President Bola Tinubu over his recent directive on the amendment to the Public Procurement Act 2007. NEFGAD issued this warning in […]

The former Minister of Power, Mr. Saleh Mamman, who was remanded in prison custody over his alleged complicity in a N33 billion fraud, on Friday, secured bail from the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The court, in a ruling […]

The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized 85 200-litre drums of petrol being illegally conveyed to the Republic of Cameroon. The command also seized 795 25-litre jerry cans of the same product found concealed on a […]

President Bola Tinubu has renamed the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, after Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka. Tinubu conveyed this message in a letter personally signed by him and made available to the media to mark Soyinka’s 90th birthday. […]

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP in the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Kogi, Murtala Ajaka, has said he will appeal the verdict of the Appeal Court affirming the victory of Governor Usman Ododo in the […]

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has lamented the inability of many of the local government areas in the country to generate revenue outside of the federal allocation, saying the focus of the country should be on how to increase […]

A National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, survey report has shown that Nigerians paid N721 billion in cash bribes to public officials in 2023. The Survey report titled: “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and trends”, released yesterday, indicated that more than 95 […]

Proponents of local government autonomy scored a major victory yesterday as the Supreme Court stripped governors of financial control over councils. The highest court effectively freed the third tier from the control of the state governments by restraining governors from […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has filed an appeal against the judgement of the Federal High Court invalidating the primary election which produced Asue Ighodalo as the governorship candidate of the party in the coming September 21 election. A Federal High […]