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The Lagos State Government has announced that an additional foot bridge would be constructed at Ojota bus stop on Ikorodu road, to complement the existing one in order to contain the recent upsurge in usage by Pedestrians. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, said the decision arose out of ...

Vantage Capital, Africa’s largest mezzanine fund manager, announced yesterday that it has provided $20 million (R294 million) of funding to Landmark Africa, one of Nigeria’s leading property developers. Landmark has developed or managed over 130,000 m2 of prime real estate across the continent. The real estate company is headquartered in Lagos, with offices in several countries including South Africa and ...

One Mrs Nike Azeez who is a landlady in the Ijegun community of Lagos state, has been accused for setting the home of one of her tenants, Adeleke Shakiru on fire just to eject him from her compound. The incident happened on Tuesday April 12th. According to PM News, Nike and Shakiru have been at loggerheads over the use of ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has said the Ajasa-Command Road in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) area of the State would be completed in the next five weeks, just as he assured that the Abesan Estate link road connecting Aboru from Agbelekale would equally be completed before the end of the year.   Governor Ambode, who gave ...

The Acting Managing director of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN ), Mr. Richard Esin has revealed that the bank would develop a biometric data for National Housing Fund (NHF) contributors. This he said was to enable contributors access their funds upon retirement from service without applying for refund adding that the bank would redesign the NHF scheme without violating ...

Over 30 housing units were submerged while 200 persons have been rendered homeless in Calabar, Cross River State, following a heavy downpour at the weekend. Some of the areas affected include 8-Mile, CRUTECH staff quarters, Howell, Okoro Agbor, Goldie and Target streets. Other areas include Efut Unwanse community in Calabar South, Mbukpa, Muritala Mohammed Highway, Wappi junction among others. The ...

A New Jersey woman named Lakishette Williams accidentally set fire to her apartment after she found out her boyfriend was gay and was cheating on her with other men. She told police she accidentally set her apartment ablaze while burning love letters from the man. This happened in December and she was immediately arrested for arson after police found out ...

The House of Representatives, on Monday, insisted it did not remove the Lagos-Calabar rail project from the 2016 budget, accusing the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, of an attempt to pad the appropriation bill. Addressing journalists, the House spokesperson, Abdulrazak Namdas, said there was no project as Lagos-Calabar rail project in the budget proposed by the executive. He said it ...

South India – An explosion caused by fireworks during a religious festival at a temple in India, Sunday, leveled several buildings, killed about 106 people and hundreds more injured in the southern Indian state of Kerala according to reports. P. T. Chacko, a spokesman for Chief Minister Oommen Chandy of Kerala, said that the fireworks display had been forbidden by ...

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Land Transport, Gbenga Ashafa, has reacted to reports about the removal of the Lagos-Calabar rail project in the 2016 budget. According to Ashafa, the project was never included in the original budget presented to the senate by President Buhari but was however included in a supplementary budget brought to the Senate by the Minister of ...