The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), has confirmed that a market around Ajah area of the state was engulfed by fire, destroying shops and goods worth millions of naira. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary of the agency, confirmed this in a statement on Monday According to him, the fire incident occurred on Sunday night at Ajah Market by Alesh bus stop in Lekki, Lagos. “On arrival to the incident scene at 22.10hrs, it was discovered that several shops and stores housing combustible materials were engulfed by fire. “Investigations conducted revealed that the immediate cause of the fire could not yet…
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With 12 days to the forthcoming November 16 off-cycle governorship election in Ondo State, the standard-bearers of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Agboola Ajayi, faced off in a governorship debate organized by Channels Television on Sunday night. While presenting their agendas for the people of the state for the next four years, the two frontline candidates, both of whom previously served as deputies to the late former Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, were at each other’s throats during the two-hour debate, countering each other’s plans for the state. Aiyedatiwa stressed that the safety…
Liverpool legend, Graeme Souness has hit out at INEOS and claimed that the new Manchester United co-owners don’t really know football. According to him, it is screaming that the people they have put in charge are not good enough. Speaking on the Three Up Front podcast, Souness also criticized the decision to sign the likes of Manuel Ugarte, Matthijs De Ligt, and Joshua Zirkzee, saying the players are not good enough. “I look at Man United since INEOS came in and it’s screaming out to me that they don’t really get football. “They have now got their so-called footballing people…
Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has described as lies from the pit of hell, the allegations that he receives N1.2 billion as security votes for the state. He stated this in Akure, the state capital, during the Ondo State governorship election debate put together by Channels Television and its partners. The debate was an avenue for the governorship candidates to tell the people their developmental plans for the state. Both men, former deputy governors to the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, are running on the platforms of the two leading political parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples…
Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State has disclosed that his administration met a dead system upon assumption of office. Fubara spoke on Sunday at the 18th anniversary celebration of Omega Power Ministries, OPM, and Chibuzor Chinyere’s 51st birthday. He also urged people of the state to pray for him to have power to defend humanity in the state. According to Fubara: “Those of us outside understand your contribution to humanity, how many of our schools are still functioning to provide that level of training, it’s no longer there. “We met a dead system which we are trying to revive, but…
Manchester United legend, Gary Neville has told new manager Ruben Amorim that he must change one thing at the club or else he would fall like the rest of other past Red Devils managers. Amorim was recently appointed as new manager of Man United following the sacking of Erik ten Hag. However, Neville said Amorim must get the best out of the players at Man United, adding that it is key that the Portuguese gaffer does well with the players at his disposal. Speaking on Sky Sports, Neville said: “He has to get the best out of the players. The…
The Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe has observed that the legal framework empowering State Independent Electoral Commissions, SIECs, in Nigeria is fundamentally flawed and should be correctly swiftly to avert imminent dictatorship. In a statement issued in Calabar at the end of the Local Government election in Cross River State on 2nd November, 2024, where APC won all the positions, Jarigbe called on the National Assembly to enact a law that genuinely strengthens SIECs and supports democracy at the local level. He observed that across the country, there is a consistent trend where State Governments…
We are representatives of Nigerian businesses in the Airtime business and have been operating for many decades distributing airtime to Nigerians. We have been bombarded with complaints from various customers on the exorbitant costs on the airtime credit scheme of some telecom operators and the lack of transparency concerning the charges on this service. The critical questions of national importance to be answered are as follows: Who are the owners of the businesses that provide the borrow-me-credit services? Why are Nigerian banks and other small credit lending institutions not allowed to offer the same service? Why did two of the…
The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has advised the federal government to leave entertainers, especially crossdressers out of the polity. He gave the advice while reacting to the saga of embattled crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky on a recent episode of the Honest Bunch Podcast. He insinuated that Bobrisky and most of his colleagues started cross-dressing due to economic reasons. The former Anambra State governor argued that more men would become crossdressers if the government decided to make policies that favour women. “When somebody told me about Bobrisky, I said ‘listen, these are entertainers that should not…
The President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has called on his kinsmen to remain calm over the court judgment ordering the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop all financial allocations to Rivers State. DAILY POST reports that on October 30, a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the apex bank to cease all monthly financial allocations to the state government. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, who delivered the judgment, cited “constitutional somersault” and “aberration” in how Governor Siminalayi Fubara has been handling the state’s budget since January this year. Justice Abdulmalik’s decision follows Rivers State Governor Fubara’s…