Author: Akintayo Adams

The Lagos State Government has reiterated its resolve to demolish buildings that fail its integrity test. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was at Dosunmu market disclosed this after 14 structures around the two that caught fire at the said marketplace on Lagos Island on Tuesday couldn’t resist the inferno. “A lot of residential apartments have been turned to warehouses. I am saying without any iota of doubt that more buildings will go down. “I just finished the assessment of a very unfortunate, but preventable disaster. “Access was denied to the first responders to the fire for a couple of hours. This…

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has revealed that the Federal Government plans to charge ₦3,000 per toll gate once the Lagos-Calabar highway project is completed. Umahi made this announcement during a guest appearance on the program “The Morning Brief” on Channels Television, emphasizing that motorists can expect a toll charge of ₦3,000 per gate along the highway. “Let me leave out the infrastructure along the corridor. Let me just concentrate on the tolls and I put 50,000 vehicles as an average passage on these toll points per day,” he said. “I put N3,000 as an average cost. N3,000 because…

Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology during Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s first tenure is dead. He died today at a hospital in Abuja, where has been since he fell ill. Onu was, in November 2015, appointed as the Minister of Science and Technology. However, he resigned his position on May 6, 2022 to join the APC presidential race, which he lost to the incumbent President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Onu, who was the first civilian governor in Abia State was last seen in public during the APC primary election in 2022 when he claimed the people of Southeast are…

King Charles has been presented with new British Pounds that features his own face instead of the Queen’s for the first time, which he described as “elegant”. The king’s face will appear on all £5, £10, £20, and £50 pound polymer banknotes from June 5 and they will serve as legal tender among existing notes which feature the late Queen Elizabeth II. “They’re very elegant these ones I must say,” the king said. “Yeah they’re very well designed,” he added. A leather booklet containing the coloured notes featuring his face on the front were handed to him by Bank of…

The Minister of Works and Former Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has said that the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal highway costs the Federal Government ₦4 billion per kilometer. He revealed this during a television program with TVC on Wednesday in Lagos, stating that the project, which is said to be 700 km, will be completed at a total cost of ₦2.8 trillion. He further explained that the project adhered to proper procurement procedures, clarifying that the contract was awarded based on counter-funding rather than Public-Private Partnership as being insinuated in some quarters. Join our WhatsApp community via https://goquick.ly/cj8q2 for instant and latest…

The embattled Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu, has disclosed that the ₦30 billion recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) does not belong to her. Days ago, the anti-graft commission in its bulletin titled “EFCC Alert,” said: “Moreover, with respect to this particular case, we have recovered over ₦30 billion, which is already in the coffers of the Federal Government.” However, Edu, in a letter issued on Wednesday by her lawyer, Chikaosolu Ojukwu denied having knowledge of the money in its entirety. The letter reads: “Neither ₦30bn nor any amount whatsoever has been traced to or recovered…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the 2024 UTME Notification Slip, which shows candidates the date, venue and time of their examination, is ready for printing. The board urged all candidates, who have registered for the 2024 UTME scheduled to commence on Friday, 19th April, 2024, to print their Notification Slips before the date so as to know the venue, date and time of their respective examinations as well as some other important details pertaining to the examination. JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin in a statement, said, “To print the slip, candidates are to visit the…

Parents of the 91 missing girls of the 2014 school abduction in Chibok, Borno State, have appealed to the First Lady, Mrs (Sen.) Oluremi Tinubu, to make use her Office to ensure the safe return of the Chibok girls. This was expressed in an open letter signed by Yana Galang and Mallam Zanna on behalf of the Chibok Parents Association and titled “A Plea for Justice and Remembering the Chibok Girls – A Letter to Her Excellency Mrs Remi Tinubu,” in which the parents shared their sadness and hope for a reunion with their daughters’. The letter read, “We are…

The National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) Emeka Rollas, has confirmed the death of Nollywood actor, John Paul Odonwodo, known in the acting world as Junior Pope. It was reported that the late actor and three of his colleagues drowned on their way back from a movie. Filmmaker, Sam Olatunji was the first to break the news of his death in the afternoon via his Instagram handle However, Emeka Rollas, late last night raised the hopes of many when he revealed that the actor was in the hospital receiving treatment as opposed to the news of his…

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, will get half of their withheld salaries, according to the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman who said that’ll happen once President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approves the payment of their salary arrears. He was speaking as a guest on Channels Televisions Politics Today on Wednesday. The Minister claimed the strike of the non-academic staff members of universities wasn’t in tandem with their academic counterparts, and the government has been playing its part in bringing succour to them. Speaking on the delay in getting salaries to…