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Work on the Pen Cinema Flyover in Agege area of Lagos is now at 60 per cent completion stage, the State Government said on Friday. The government also said the 10-lane Oshodi-International Airport Road was now at over 50 per cent…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, announced a trading surplus of N17.16 billion in its April 2018 financials. The NNPC, in a statement by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu…

The death toll in a Tanzanian ferry, MV Nyerere, that capsized in Lake Victoria climbed to more than 100 on Friday, as Tanzanian rescue workers pressed on with searches to find scores of more people feared drowned. The ferry may…

The first military governor of Kwara, Brig.-Gen. David Bamigboye (retd), is dead. The younger brother to the deceased, Col. Theophilus Bamigboye, confirmed the death on Friday on the telephone. He said the late military governor died…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday demanded the arrest and immediate prosecution of the Minister of Aviation (State), Senator Hadi Sirika for allegedly using a “non-existent national carrier to defraud the nation to the tune of…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as secretary/director-general of the campaign organisation for his re-election. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and…

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, lacks the vision, capacity and the patience to develop the country. A statement by the Special Adviser…

The United States government has slapped punitive sanctions on a key unit of the Chinese military for its purchase of Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missiles. Washington said the purchases by the Equipment…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met behind closed door with the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reliably learnt that the governor would be updating the…

The Presidential Task Force on Apapa Gridlock has said that it would start impounding deviant and idle articulated vehicles on Lagos bridges and roads next Monday. The Task Force Chairman, Commodore Okon Eyo, announced this at…