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September 9, 2020 No Responses

Marriage Crashes Over Missing Underwear

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a marraige involving a trader, Sadia Abass, and her husband, Azeez, over a missing underwear. Sadia had petitioned the Court to dissolve her marriage over allegations that he had stolen her...

August 28, 2020 No Responses

Okomu Oil Inaugurates Seven Projects

The management of Okomu Oil Palm Plc has constructed seven different projects within its areas of operations in Edo State as part of measures to speed up development in the benefitting communities. Inaugurating the projects on Friday, the Managi...

August 24, 2020 No Responses

Ibeju-Lekki Youths Reap Benefits of Dangote Refinery Vocational Training

Many indigent youths in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State are now counting their fortunes and reaping the benefits from the first batch of the vocational training programme organized by Dangote Oil Refinery. So far, according to a statement, some of....

August 20, 2020 No Responses

Oyo Extends Maternity Leave To Six months

The Oyo State Government on Thursday said efforts are ongoing to ensure that maternity leave for pregnant and nursing mothers who are state employees is extended from four to six months. This is contained in a statement by the...

August 18, 2020 No Responses

Prudential Zenith Life Insurance Donates N38millionTo Slum2School

Prudential Zenith Life Insurance has donated $100,000 (N38 million) to Slum2school Africa, to help cushion the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in disadvantaged communities across Nigeria. Mr Chuks Igumbor, Managing Director and Chief Execu...

August 17, 2020 No Responses

Seplat Restates Commitment To Develop Imo Communities

The Chairman, SEPLAT, Dr. ABC Orjiako, said this at the weekend when he led a management team of the company in a courtesy call to the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma and leaders of host communities in Ohaji and others,...

August 16, 2020 No Responses

Man Drowns At Lotus Garden Hotel

The Police Command in Anambra State has identified the man who drowned at Lotus Garden hotel pool in Onitsha as 42-year old Izuchukwu Achusim, a businessman, who allegedly went to catch fun with a female companion. Spokesman of the...

August 16, 2020 No Responses

Lagos-Ibadan Rail Begins Sept With 16 Daily Trips

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is to commence skeletal operations on the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Guage Rail line from the middle of September with 16 trips daily. The Managing Director of NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria disclosed this on Saturday in Ibadan...

August 10, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Arrests 26 Drivers Over Unlatched Containers

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has arrested 26 drivers over unlatched containers on their articulated vehicles in Lagos and Ogun, as it begins a Special Operation. FRSC Zonal Commanding Officer in charge of both states, Mr Imoh Etuk,...

August 7, 2020 No Responses

Stallion Bajaj Flags-Off Keke Rally

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com Stallion Bajaj on Friday in Lagos, Nigeria flagged-off what it described as the “First Keke Rally In Nigeria’’. Comprised of five“Keke Rally Drivers’’, security agents, among other...

August 7, 2020 No Responses

NUPENG Directs Tanker Drivers To Suspend Services In Lagos Over Apapa Congestion

The National Leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has directed petroleum tanker drivers to withdraw their services from Lagos State effective Aug. 10. NUPENG gave the directive on Friday in a statement signed...

August 6, 2020 No Responses

Army Impounds 342,000 Litres Of AGO In South-South

The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said troops of Operation Delta Safe, discovered and deactivated 25 illegal refineries and impounded 342,000 litres of illegally refined AGO in the South-South in the last two weeks. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operati...

July 24, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Vows To Prosecute Traffic Offenders As Mobile Courts Convict 359 In Plateau, Nasarawa

The new Zonal Commanding Officer for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Zone 4 comprising Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States Assistant Corps Marshal Kayode OLAGUNJU, mni has vowed to prosecute erring motorists in the Zone to improve safety situation...

July 17, 2020 No Responses

Arotile For Burial July 23

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday disclosed that the remains of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Service’s first female combat helicopter pilot, who died on Tuesday, will be buried on July 23 at the National Military Cemetery in...