Nigeria’s heavyweight boxer Efe Ajagba on Monday earned praise from boxing fans in Lagos and beyond after a majority draw against Congolese opponent Martin Bakole. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that fans across Lagos expressed satisfaction with Ajagba’s performance, describing it as spirited and determined. Raymond Nwabuda, a sports commentator, told NAN that…
The House of Representatives Committee on Works has expressed satisfaction with quality and pace of work on Section One of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. The Chairman of the Committee, Mr Akin Alabi, stated this during inspection of the ongoing construction on Monday. Alabi lauded the contractor for the “quality job” and the Federal Ministry…
The President of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, Justice Ricardo Goncalves, has called for justice to be brought out of courtrooms to the heart of West African communities. Goncalves made the call on Monday in Lagos, at the sensitisation outreach by the Community Court of Justice, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He…
President Donald Trump says he has directed his government to reopen and expand the Alcatraz prison. The prison on a hard-to-reach California Island, off San Francisco that had been closed for more than 60 years, would be for notorious criminals. In a post on his Truth Social site on Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For…
The special military operation in Ukraine is going favourably for the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin has said. Putin said Russia will continue to achieve its goals in Ukraine, despite the large-scale support of Kyiv from the West, the head of state emphasised. “Western elites continue to provide large-scale political, financial and military support to…
The Gombe State Criminal Justice and Inquiry Committee under the state’s Chief Judge, Halima Mohammed, on Monday, released 85 inmates from Gombe and Billiri custodial centres in the state. The release is coming after the committee visited four custodial centres in the state between Tuesday and Friday to review the cases at the centres. The…
Afrobeat superstar Davido, celebrity bar man, Cubana Chief Priest and other Nigerians have condemned the arrest of social media influencer and activist, Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan(VDM). The celebrities and fans of VDM said his arrest was carried out like an “abduction”, which left many Nigerians worried, and therefore demand his release. VDM was…
The Rivers Sole Administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas, has charged Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC) participants to provide practical solutions to insecurity issues in their study tour reports. Ibas gave the advice when the Senior Course 47 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College Jaji, paid him a courtesy visit in Port Harcourt on…
Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has carried out a cabinet reshuffle. The governor, in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Mr Segun Ogunwuyi, made this disclosure on Monday. According to Ogunwuyi, the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr Seun Ashamu, is now to oversee the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources….
The Zamfara State Lawyer Forum has endorsed the Nigerian House of Representatives’ decision to summon Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal and leaders of the state’s House of Assembly, amid a deepening crisis within the legislature and escalating insecurity across the northwestern state. The forum, a prominent legal advocacy group, described the summons as a constitutionally…
