… Says Okada Passengers Risk Three Months Jail Term The Lagos State Taskforce has continued its enforcement of the ban on commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada, that ply restricted highways, particularly in the six Local Governments Areas and nine Local Council Development Areas across the State. Speaking on the exercise which took place in Agege/Fagba, Apapa and Ajah, the ... Read More »
The bank released this statement on friday *RE: ONLINE PUBLICATION ON PURPORTED SALE OF POLARIS BANK* Our attention has been drawn to an online report on the purported sale of Polaris Bank Limited. This publication is speculative, deliberately intended to create panic and should be disregarded by the banking public. Stakeholders may recall the regulatory intervention in the erstwhile Skye ... Read More »
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family, friends and associates over the death of former Inspector-General of Police, Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, who died in Lagos on Thursday. The President in his condolence message also mourns with the Nigeria Police Force, an institution Balogun spent the better part of his life serving. President Buhari recalls that Balogun, during his tenure ... Read More »
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has described election preparations, deployment and implementation as the most extensive mobilization that could happen in a country in either peacetime or wartime. Dwelling specifically on Nigeria, Prof. Yakubu averred that preparations for the 2023 General Election would involve the recruitment and training of staff and managing the logistics ... Read More »
• Says state now a model in funds utilisation Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) on Thursday said it had a very bad experience with Kwara State in the past over utilisation of matching grants that were meant for development of basic education. The commission added however that the situation changed with the coming of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq whose administration the ... Read More »
Mustapha Balogun, a former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), is dead. Family sources confirmed the death of Balogun, who became IGP in March 2002, to… Mustapha Balogun, a former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), is dead. Family sources confirmed the death of Balogun, who became IGP in March 2002, to Daily Trust on Thursday night, but did not go into details. Born ... Read More »
• As Nge Urges Journalists to Uphold Ethics, Ensure Quality Content Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has urged politicians and public office holders not to gag the media, saying press freedom was important in a democracy. He made the appeal on Thursday at a workshop organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), themed: “Journalist and Digitalisation: the imperative ... Read More »
Tinubu not supporting Adelabu in Oyo – Kekemeke The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the South-West, Mr Isaacs Kekemeke, has described as a lie the claims that the Accord Party governorship candidate in Oyo State, Adebayo Adelabu, is enjoying the backing of the presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Kekemeke said Tinubu was fully in ... Read More »
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