Rice farmers in Borno State have called for road rehabilitation to accelerate production and ease movement of produce to markets. A cross section of the farmers made the call in separate interviews with newsmen, yesterday, at Zabarmari Rice Plantation in Maiduguri, the state capital. They described the deplorable state of road to the rice plantation as “inimical” to sustainable growth ...
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Activists and Politicians disagrees with Buhari on restructuring
Some politicians and activists have disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari on restructuring, an issue he raised in his new year broadcast that Nigeria’s problems were mainly on processes and not the structure. Buhari, had during a nationwide broadcast, said that his view about agitations for restructuring was that Nigeria’s problems were more to do with process than the structure. The ...
Read More »Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu budgets N15b on Road construction and rehabilitation
Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu budgets N15b for rehabilitation and construction of roads across the 18 local government areas of the state this year. The Ondo state Governor plans to spend N3 billion out of the amount budgeted on the reconstruction of roads in the rural areas in other to ease transportation of farm produce to urban areas. These formed part of ...
Read More »Lagos Government seals Badoo sponsor’s properties
As part of the measures to defeat the Badoo menace in Ikorodu, the Lagos State Government has frozen the properties of Alhaji Alaka Abayomi Kamal, a man thought to be the Badoo sponsor. The assets which include a Petrol Filling Station, hotel and event centre, were sealed off on Wednesday, January 3, 2017. According to the Linda Ikeji’s Blog (LIB), the valuables ...
Read More »Tin-can Fire- Property worth over 100 million completely burnt
LAGOS — CLEARING agents operating at the container complex of Tin-can Island port in Lagos State, lost over a N100 million worth of property to the Tin-can Fire incident that razed down part of the complex on Tuesday, even as some agents are pointing accusing fingers at the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA and a popular terminal operator, as being behind the ...
Read More »Muhammadu Buhari’s new year message is a Greek gift-ADP
The Action Democratic Party, ADP, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s new year message as a Greek gift. The party in a statement by its Spokesman, Prince Adelaja Adeoye, said that it has critically studied the New Year message and that “It is nothing but a ploy to deceive Nigerians again as another election year is around the corner.’’ The party ...
Read More »2018 budget: Enugu, Osun and Bornu Governors present budgets to state assembly
Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Kashim Shettima of Borno State and Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State thursday presented the 2018 budget(s) to their respective Houses of Assembly. While Ugwuanyi presented N98.6billion, Shettima had N170billion and Aregbesola submitted NN173.8billion. In Enugu State, the budget estimate is 6.7 per cent less than 2017 estimate of N 105.1 billion. The budget tagged: ...
Read More »Commuter bus kills masquerade in Anambra
Onitsha-The celebration of the New Year turned sour for a family in Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, as Commuter bus kills masquerade said to belong to the family. It was gathered that the masquerade, in the early hours of the fateful day, accompanied by about four youths, was crossing the ever-busy Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, close to Tarzan ...
Read More »Man behind bars for selling his late brother’s property to two persons
The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State, has arrested a 31-year-old man, Agbata Ebuka, for allegedly selling his late brother’s property to two persons. The property, a bungalow, is located in the Ishasi area of the state and was reportedly sold by the suspect to one Ifeanyi Okeke and Ifeanyi Okonkwo without the consent of other family members. PUNCH ...
Read More »Possibility of a total blackout as National Grid collapses
The Federal Ministry of power, Works and Housing has confirmed that the nation’s power National Grid has collapsed. In a statement issued around 12:44am on Wednesday, the ministry said a fire incident at the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada, Edo State, on Tuesday caused the national transmission grid to trip off. “It is regrettable that after a sustained period ...
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