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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has vowed to banish yellow commercial buses from Lagos roads this year. Ambode spoke at the 14th Annual Lecture of the Centre for Value and Leadership with theme: “Living Well Together, Tomorrow: The Challenge of Africa’s Future Cities” held in Lagos. Ambode said that connectivity was a critical element for a mega city to work, which required having mass transit system to move people from one point to another. “I tell you what, I want to banish yellow buses from Lagos this year. “My dream…

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Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Acting President told Nigerians protesting the severe economic hardship and hunger across the country that their message has been well received by the federal government. Acknowledging that it fell within the purview of their fundamental human rights to demand a better economy, Osinbajo said that it also troubled the government that many Nigerians were groaning and suffering from the pangs of hunger and poverty. Though it was not a direct address to the Protesters who took to the streets of Abuja and later tried to make inroads…

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Against the backdrop of reduced federal government revenue and consequent reduction in federal investment in the education sector, Heritage Bank Plc has indicated the urgency for reformed educational system in the interest of youths’ future. Mrs. Kehinde Wole- Olomojobi, Group Treasury of Heritage Bank disclosed this at an educational stakeholders’ summit recently in Lagos, on the theme –  “Our Children Safety, Everyone’s Business.” According to her, the school of the future would aim at developing a more well -rounded, wholly educated individual members of the society who would combine the…

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285 drivers have been declared wanted by the management of Dangote Group of Companies through it’s ‘Operation Clamp Down’ on suspects connected to its stolen 3.5 million customised tyres that were carted away by criminally-minded employees of the company. It has, therefore, cautioned the public against purchase of such customised Dangote tyres with its logo boldly inscribed on them, as they would be prosecuted if found with any. The coordinator of Dangote Group’s National Patrol Unit, CP Abdullahi Magagi (Rtd.) who spoke to newsmen in Lokoja, disclosed that so far,…

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Nigeria President, Mohammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly for extension of his sick leave. The notice of extension of his leave was contained in a letter he dispatched to the National Assembly. Buhari left Nigeria in January for London to “undergo routine medical check-ups” during a short holiday and was expected to resume work on February 6. But his spokesman Femi Adesina said the president extended the vacation on the advice of doctors. He, however, did not say when the president would return to Nigeria. “President Muhammadu Buhari…

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Sensational hip-hop artiste, Tu Face Idibia’s planned protest against President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress(APC)-led Federal Government has received a boost as the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has supported the move. In a press statement released on behalf of the state Chairman of the Party, Hon. Sikirulahi Ogundele, the Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Alhaji Malik Olamilekan Ibitoye, said that the protest is apt and a confirmation that Nigerians have lost confidence in deceptive government of the APC. He stressed…

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James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, who was recently released from a United Kingdom prison has returned to Nigeria. “Chief James Ibori has arrived. He landed in Abuja in the early hours,” said Ighoyota Amori, a political adviser to Ibori, who was governor of the oil-rich Delta state between 1999 and 2007. He said Ibori, who was released in London in December after serving just over four years of a 13-year jail term, would later fly to the southern port city of Warri in Delta state. “A chartered private…

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Lagos State Government has been dragged to court by operators of domestic and commercial wastes to stop the government from displacing them or replacing them with new operators through the guise of reform. In a suit filed on their behalf at a Lagos High Court by Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the PSP operators, urged the court to urgently uphold and protect their existing rights and benefits so that the government will not appoint new operators to replace them. Listed as defendants in the suit are the Lagos State Government, the Attorney-General of…

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