Lai Mohammed The Federal Government has said that the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan created the problem in the power sector by selling the power generating and distributing companies to incompetent investors. Information and culture minister Lai Mohammed stated this on Saturday in Lagos at a meeting with the Online Publishers Association of Nigeria. …

File: River By Bose Adelaja Tragedy occurred in Lagos weekend, after a six   tyre-truck laden with sand reportedly lost control and plunged into a river in Epe Bridge area. Details of the incident which occurred at about 1.20am could not be ascertained because of the time, but the Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency …

Lai Mohammed The Federal Government on Saturday appealed to organised Labour to shelve its planned strike, saying it will only bring more hardship to ordinary Nigerians. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the appeal in Lagos at a meeting with the Online Publishers Association of Nigeria The News Agency of Nigeria …

…as death toll rises to 30 ….Buhari, Ortom, ACF shocked, N/East Elders say military at breaking point …Gov laments ambush By Johnbosco Agbakwuru and Joseph Erunke, Abuja, Peter Duru, Makurdi Nigerians are angrily reacting to the jihadist attack on the convoy of Governor Babagana Umaru Zulum, which death toll rose to 30 yesterday. Sources told AFP …

Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment …Govs meet labour leaders, to parley Buhari …Lai Mohammed warns action will hurt common man …IPMAN disowns industrial action By Henry Umoru      & Johnbosco Agbakwuru AS part of the last-minute moves to stop nationwide strike and mass protest scheduled for tomorrow by Labour, governors under the aegis …

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b4aRMJVL4?rel=0] This statement leads to the question, What exactly is wrong with Lagos? Is Nigeria really ready for 21st-century politics? Also read: Ikwenene/Ujode Road in Delta: NDDC has failed us, residents cry out (VIDEO) Vanguard News The post EDO IS NOT LAGOS: Short statement but very deep! (VIDEO) appeared first on Vanguard News.

Jonathan (L) and Bha Ndaw (R) Bah Ndaw, a retired colonel who has been designated Mali’s interim president following last month’s coup, made his first public appearance on Thursday, meeting a regional mediator, AFP reporters saw. Ndaw, 70, met former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, in Bamako on a mission for the 15-nation bloc ECOWAS, on the …

The Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), on Saturday, held a memorial service for the 165 military officers who died in a plane crash in 1992 at Ejigbo on the outskirts of Lagos. The Nigeria Air Force C-130 plane crashed on Sept. 26, 1992 killing all the passengers and crew members. The News Agency …

The Community and Social Development Project (CSDP), an initiative of the Federal Government with support from the World Bank, spent N90 billion on community projects in 30 states from 2009 to date, an official has said. Dr Abdulkarim Obaje, National Coordinator of the CSDP, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the goal …

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has pleaded with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its planned strike and participate in broad consultation with the various stakeholders. The governors made the call in a communiqué issued after dialogue between representatives of the forum and union which took place in the Abuja residence of NGF Chairman and Gov. Kayode Fayemi …

Front Gate of University of Ibadan (UI), Ibadan. Some members of the University of Ibadan academic community have expressed displeasure about the election of members of the community to join the Joint Council Senate Committee of the institution in the selection of its new vice-chancellor. There are 18 contestants for the position of vice-chancellor of the …

Obaseki Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has disputed media reports that Governor Godwin Obaseki will decamp to All Progressive Congress (APC) after he winning Edo 2020 governorship election under the banner of PDP. Obaseki, following his disqualification by the APC governorship election screening committee, had joined the PDP for his re-election bid and …

File photo of gunmen By Festus Ahon SUSPECTED herdsmen, Saturday evening, kidnapped a Catholic Priest, Revd. Fr. Jude Onyebadi and three of his workers in his farm along Isssele-uku-Issele-Mkpitime road, Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, throwing the area into fear. Our Correspondent reports that Onyebadi who was also kidnapped two years ago was taken …

Burial of slain soldiers By Kingsley Omonobi The Nigerian Army on Saturday buried three soldiers who were killed alongside late Col Dahiru Chiroma Bako who was killed during a Boko Haram ambush during the week Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col Sagir Musa made this know in a statement titled, “Two Corporals and a Private Killed …

From left; The Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Youths and Sports, Hon. Kazeem Bolarinwa; Asiwaju Seun Fakorede, Oyo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports and Chief Dotun Sanusi, the Chairman, Ilaji Hotels and Sports Resort during the Closing Ceremony of 1st Ilaji Resort/NIPSN (Network for Inclusion of People With Special Needs) Sports Championship sponsored …

To meet with Buhari, Osibanjo, SGF, others on the matter By Henry Umoru AS part of moves to stop the planned nationwide strike and mass protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the thirty-six state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF Saturday entered into a meeting with the organised labour, pleading with …

Victim of Customs’ stray bullet in Ogun James Ogunnaike A middle-aged man, Idowu Moses, on Saturday sustained gunshot injury following a clash between men of the Nigerian Customs Service and smugglers in Oja Odan, in Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. Moses, who is the Chairman of the Nigerian Association of Panel Beaters, Oja …

…wants them reintegrated, employed in communities By Bashir Bello A non-governmental organisation, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, (PRAWA) has on Saturday make case for ex-inmates who had undergone reformation and rehabilitation. The group wants the smooth re-integration of the persons back in their communities and also provided job opportunities to work and fend for themselves. …

Gbagi Threatens legal action against sponsors Emma Amaize, Jimitota Onoyume & Perez Brisibe FORMER Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has denied media reports that he assaulted and stripped naked four staff of Signatious Hotel describing the reports as political arrangements ahead of the Delta State 2023 governorship election. Gbagi during a media briefing …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the ambush on the entourage of Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, which led to the death of security men and some operatives of Civilian-JTF. The President made the condemnation in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday. …