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The Muslim Community of Lagos State (MCLS) has lamented the rising spate of crimes. MCLS President Prof Tajudeen Gbadamosi, who spoke on Thursday at a state of the nation briefing at the Lagos Central Mosque, Idumota, decried the growing spate of crimes and immorality, saying it is a matter of concern to everybody. He said:…
THE Board Chairman, Bank of Industry (BoI), Aliyu Dikko on Thursday said the lender has provided financial support worth N678 billion ($2.4 billion) to over two million Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Dikko spoke at the North East Rehabilitation Fund Focus Group Session in Abuja. He said the bank is partnering with Emergency Coordination Centre…
WE in Vanguard Newspapers have always maintained an unflinching focus on the anti-Boko Haram and other security threats damaging the fabric of the nation, and the reasons are obvious. Though no one knows exactly what the Federal and the three flashpoint North Eastern states (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe) spent on the Boko Haram war and…
CHAIRMAN, Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has asked Japan to invest $2.5 billion representing five per cent of its $50 billion commitment to Africa. Elumelu, African investor and philanthropist, spoke at the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Yokohama, Japan. “At TICAD 2016 in Kenya, Japan pledged $30 billion for Africa. This year…
…Tells citizens not to panic By Joseph Erunke THE Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of police helicopters to tackle the increasing rate of criminal activities in the country. IGP Mohammed Adamu The helicopters were specifically meant for aerial surveillance for major cities in the South-West and North-West of the country….
Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture Prince Gbolahan Lawal has said the government-owned Integrated Rice Mill at Imota, a Lagos suburb, will be completed in seven months. Lawal, who spoke yesterday during a facility tour of the mill in order to assess the progress of work being done, expressed satisfaction about the progress of work so…
ABUJA- Governors of oil producing states Thursday met in Abuja over the recent appointment into the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. NDDC The meeting which held at the Bayelsa state governor’s lodge, Maitama, Abuja has in attendance Governors Udoh Emmanuel, Godwin Obaseki, Rotimi Akeredolu, Seriake Dickson of Akwa Ibom, Edo, Ondo and Bayelsa states respectively…
KATSINA – Worried by the spate of killings, banditry, kidnapping and other security challenges bedeviling the state, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has on Thursday warned armed bandits terrorizing the state to stop. Masari This was as he threatened to deploy all measures at it disposal as a government to deal decisively and…
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Agency (Task Force) have begun a clampdown on illegal commercial motorcyclists plying restricted routes, including inner streets. Agency Chairman Mr. Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said in a statement that the clampdown began yesterday, adding that 125 motorcycles had been impounded for flouting…
Makurdi…..Benue State Commission of Education, Prof. Dennis Ityavyar has disclosed that the state government has set up a committee to clampdown on operators of illegal schools across the state. Ortom The Commissioner who made this known yesterday in Makurdi said the government was worried at the level of proliferation of illegal schools in state assuring…