Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote said he lost N25 billion ($68.6million) to the Apapa ports-Oshodi gridlock from 2017 to the 2019 financial year.
He spoke on Saturday evening as he and works and housing minister, Babatunde Fashola, took a tour of the most vital highway in Nigeria, now being rebuilt...
• AbdulRazaq a dream come true, says outgoing President
The Ilorin Emirate Descendants Union (IEDPU) at the weekend hailed Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for taking concrete steps to facilitate all the preliminary works ahead January 2020 take off of the Police College in Ballah village.
The body also lauded AbdulRazaq...
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has crossed the line of decency with his recent efforts to erase the legacies of his (Saraki’s) late father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki.
Saraki, in a statement he personally signed and released in Lagos today,...
• As Govt reclaims land for civil service clinic
Ownership of the land bordering the Civil Service Clinic in Ilorin has officially reverted to Kwara State Government, a statement said on Friday, adding that a new secretariat complex will now be erected on the land next year.
Chief Press Secretary to...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Friday that the release of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, from detention by the Federal Government was based on compassionate grounds.
He also said in a statement...
The Zamfara Government, says it will provide adequate and efficient testing equipment in the laboratories of its health facilities to ensure proper blood transfusion in the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Yahaya Kanoma, gave this hint in Gusau on Friday at a one-day training organised by a group, ‘Saving...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shell, Total, and ENI on Friday signed the final investment decision (FID) to give the go-ahead for the construction of Train 7 of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) project.
The FID was initially scheduled to be sealed last week Thursday. But, after two...
Eight months after being sworn in as the governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq says he still drives his personal cars for official duties.
He said this on Thursday while denying that the government was behind the popular musical concert that featured pop star Wizkid in Ilorin on Christmas Day.
He...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Burkina Faso of Nigeria’s and other West African countries’ solidarity after it was attacked by suspected terrorists.
Burkina Faso, on Tuesday, suffered a devastating attack, to which it lost 35 of its citizens.
Seven soldiers and 80 armed fighters were also killed in Tuesday’s double attack...
As from January, members of the opposite sex will no longer be allowed to board the same commercial tricycles in Kano State.
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who spoke at the closing ceremony of the 77th annual Islamic Vacation Course, (IVC), organised by Zone A of the Muslim Society of Nigeria...
