The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, on Monday arraigned one Paul Afolabi before Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Ibadan Judicial Division. He was arraigned on four counts bordering on obtaining property under false pretence. Afolabi, who operated through the name William Sharon was arrested in Ibadan by operatives of the Commission after receiving ...
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FG awarded 121 contracts, constructed 1,262 kilometers of road in 3 years – Fashola
Former minister of power, works, and housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the federal govt awarded 121 road contracts and constructed 1,262 kilometres of road from 2016 to 2018. According to Fashola, 277 kilometers of road was constructed, 345km was rehabilitated and 17,749 people were employed in the process, in 2016 alone. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Works and Power, ...
Read More »6 in court over alleged N174,000 property theft
The defendants are Rabiu Mogaji, 45; Ashiru Hammed, 23; Isah Mohammed, 35; Abdullahi Adamu, 20; Sanusi Muhammed 22; Ali Saheed, 29 and Ashiru Umar, 20. The defendants, whose addresses were not provided in court, were brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court on a three-count charge of stealing property, assault, and breach of peace. They, however, pleaded not guilty of ...
Read More »Fayose’s former aide gets six months jail over land encroachment
An Ado Ekiti Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a former Chairman of Ado Local Government Area, Mr. Taye Fasuba, to six months imprisonment over unlawful entry into a land and malicious damage to property. Senior Magistrate Omolola Akosile, in a judgment delivered on Monday, found Fasuba guilty as charged in two of the three counts before the court and sentenced him ...
Read More »Lagos residents lament losses to floods
Lagos residents call on government for intervention as flood destroys properties worth millions of naira. Adebola Oni, 28, stands in front of a kiosk overlooking a marshland on Tony Enyinna Street, Gbagada. It had just rained that Sunday afternoon and the sun was forcing its way out of the sky’s grey shrouds. At 3:57 p.m., Mr. Oni had spent the ...
Read More »Popular Yoruba actress, Abimbola Afolayan builds a mini estate
Popular Yoruba actress and entrepreneur, Abimbola Afolayan has built for herself a mini estate. The rising real estate guru took to Instagram to share photos. ANOTHER FEATHER ADDED TO MY CAP! AS I LAUNCH @EXTREMEPROPERTIES TODAY, I AM LAUNCHING IT WITH A PROPERTY BUILT BY ME FOR ME. IT GOES A LONG WAY FOR ME BECAUSE I AM STARTING MY ...
Read More »Bandits attack Taraba villages, kill one, burn houses
At least, one person was said to have lost his life and several houses burnt and other valuable properties destroyed on Sunday night when suspected herdsmen attacked Tudiri village in Ardo Kola Local Government and Kasuan Baila area of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Mr. Amos Tijam a victim of the attack told our correspondent that one person was killed, ...
Read More »NITP calls for proper control, monitoring of housing projects
The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) Lagos Chapter, has called on the Lagos State Government to facilitate adequate control and monitoring of housing developments across the state. The NITP Chairman, Mr. Bisi Adedire, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos. Adedire said that proper monitoring and supervision of buildings had ...
Read More »Infrastructure: NSE campaigns support of indigenous designers in Kwara
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has encouraged Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara to dependably connect with indigenous designers and building firms in the infrastructural advancement of the State to improve nearby substance. The call was owned in an expression on Sunday in Ilorin by the branch Chairman of the NSE, Mr. Moshood Akanbi. The general public expressed that individuals ...
Read More »President Buhari approves N208bn for university infrastructure
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disbursement of N208 billion for infrastructure in federal universities. Buhari, who was represented by Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, said this at the 23rd convocation ceremony of the University of Abuja on Saturday. The President said the approval was done under the 2019 intervention of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. The President, ...
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