The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to kick-off two programmes targeted at alleviating the impact of fuel subsidy removal. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, who disclosed this weekend, listed the two programme as presidential conditional grant and presidential palliative loan. “In the presidential conditional grant programme, the federal government…
A woman and her two children have been confirmed dead after a car rammed into them in the Ajamgbadi area of Lagos State. The accident occurred on Saturday around 8:30 pm at 77 Bus Stop Shibiri Imude Road, Ajamgbadi. The 29-year-old driver of the ash-coloured Toyota Camry with registration number BDG-55IHG, who is also a…
One person has been feared dead in a fire that occurred in the early hours of Monday at a residential building in the Adealu area of Lagos State. The Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, disclosed this in a statement made available to PUNCH Online. According to the Lagos Fire Service…
Five persons have been confirmed dead and 11 others injured in a fatal auto crash that occurred on Saturday, along the Calabar-Itu highway in Cross River State. The accident which occurred at about 3 p.m. was between a Nissan Caravan with registration number GWB532XY and a Mark Truck with no registration number. This was according…
Delta State Police operatives have arrested suspected members of armed gang that specialise in burgling churches at night and carting away musical instruments. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Bright Edafe, said upon receiving several complaints of burgling of churches in Orerokpe, headquarters of Okpe Local Government Area, near Warri, the police swung…
Governor Ademola Adeleke is ramping up actions to extend the life span of the Ilesa water financing agreement with the Islamic Development Bank which is due for closure by December ending. Responding to a statement by the Asiwaju of Ijeshaland, Chief Yinka Fasuyi, the Spokesperson to Governor Adeleke, Mallam Olawale Rasheed on Monday in a…
The Osun State government is constrained to clarify that no Osun state government official attended any naming ceremony in Atlanta, United States as being peddled in some opposition misinformation gaffe. In a release issued by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi debunked the allegations on Monday, saying there was also no official…
Extra police patrolled one of South Africa’s most violent townships Sunday after a “mob” tied up and burned to death seven men accused of a crime wave, police and residents said. A steadily increasing murder rate afflicts South Africa, but community leaders say Diepsloot, a town of more than 350,000 people north of Johannesburg with…
Impartial watchers of Osun judicial space must be having an interesting manifestation of facts and reality of recent controversies. The public now knows the real issue. The masquerade is unveiled. The real actors now are the judicial workers who petitioned the Chief Judge before the ubiquitous National Judicial Council. Those initial figures and institutions such…
Germany defeated France 4-3 on penalties after both sides played out a 2-2 draw after regulation time to win a maiden U-17 FIFA World Cup title on Saturday
