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Ondo State Government has charged Chevron Nigeria Limited to prioritise safety of lives and properties of citizens following a recent fire outbreak at Oju Imole Oil Field in Ilaje Local Government The inferno started last Thursday after explosion. The State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, while receiving the delegation from Chevron in his office in Akure…
The Senate Committee on Defence will soon submit the report of its investigations into the faceoff between the Military and Federal Capital Territory(FCT) indigenes over alleged land acquisition. The Chairman of the committee, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, made this known at the end of an investigative hearing on the matter on Monday in Abuja. Kyanite did…
The authorities the Supreme Court have said that it was impossible for President Muhammadu Buhari to dictate to them or interfere in the court’s decision-making process. The court also said a media report, which blamed the fate that befell the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen on some supposed disagreement among some…
….Beg MKO Abiola’s families to settle rift immediately to avoid bloodshed By Olasunkanmi Akoni lagos—For the umpteenth time, residents of 400 acres of land in Abiola Farms, Ayobo, located at Igbo Ilogbo, Ayobo, Ipaja-Ayobo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos State, comprising of seven Community Development Associations, have called on relevant authorities to come to…
By Monsuru Olowoopejo Lagos State Government has condemned the use of prisons as rehabilitation centre for convicted children in the country, but rather should be kept in correctional homes. Prisoners: Manhunt for escapees The state government maintained that sending children to prison affects their mental health due to the atmosphere they were often subjected to….
By Wole MosadomiMinna—Two bike riders narrowly escaped death, Sunday, as a trailer conveying baskets of tomatoes fell on them at the City Gate along Suleja-Minna Road, Minna, Niger State. The driver of the trailer, Danjuma Mohammed, who also sustained serious injury, was taking the baskets of tomatoes to the late Abdullahi Abdulkhadir Kure Market, Minna…
By Esther OnyegbulaA 34-year-old furniture maker, Seye Yinka, arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police command alongside three of his gang members for being in possession of firearm, said he bought the gun for N30,000 to protect himself . Guns According to him, “I use the gun to protect myself any time there is…
By Vera Sam Anyagafu The Trade Director, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Nigeria, Mr. Bagus Wicaksena, has disclosed in an exclusive interview with Vangaurd that the Republic of Indonesia maybe a viable option for Nigeria’s rapid economic recovery, saying that, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country’s trade relations with Indonesia, stand to reach a…
Abuja – The National Leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has rejected the alleged anti-poor and anti-masses recruitment requirements of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp[oration (NNPC). NANS members protest at NASS Mr Adeyemi Azeez, NANS National Public Relations Officer (PRO) made the position of the students’ body known in a statment on Sunday…
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has commended the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Abukabar Sadiq Maikobi and all the officers and men of the Division for the support and cooperation they continue to offer the state, especially in the area of…