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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Tuesday, attended the passing-out parade of the Youth Corps members serving in the state, promising automatic employment for 100 corps members with the most outstanding performance during the service year. The governor also approved the sum of N5bn for the construction of a new permanent Orientation Camp for

To sanitize the operational standard of orphanage homes in Imo State, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare has released a list of 10 moribund, closed and/or suspended orphanage homes in the state, whose licences are revoked. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Lady Nkechinyere Ugwu, who stated this over the

An Onitsha, Anambra State High Court No. 1 presided over by Justice J. I. Nweze, has adjourned further hearing till July 23 and September 20, 2024, in the criminal charge preferred against four persons accused of abducting the traditional ruler of Ogwuaniocha community in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state, Igwe Oliver Nnaji. The

The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has described the landmark judgement of the Supreme Court on granting full autonomy to the 774 local government areas in Nigeria as the only way to sustain democracy in Nigeria. Anyanwu, who was the candidate of the PDP in the November 11, 2023, governorship

The Federal Government has predicted that 94 towns are at risk of a five-day flooding beginning Tuesday, July 16, and ending on July 20, 2024. The Minister of State of Environment, Dr. Iziaq Salako, disclosed this to The PUNCH on Tuesday. Salako said the identified locations and their environs would likely witness heavy rainfall that

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, declined to grant the request by the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to travel to the United Kingdom for a medical check-up. Justice Hamza Muazu dismissed Emefiele’s prayer that his passport be released, saying the ex-apex bank

The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, on Tuesday, held a crucial meeting with the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, and the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to end oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta region within the shortest possible time. Addressing the

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested and charged a tech entrepreneur, Kingsley Inegbedion, for his alleged involvement in romance scams and business email compromise schemes that witnessed him and an accomplice, Efemena Igbe, who is still at large, posing as legitimate business owners to defraud American citizens between April 2020 and May 2023. According

Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the final forfeiture of 20 cars stolen from Canada to Nigeria. The cars are forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The judge gave the order following a motion on notice filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A statement

The National Assembly has thrown its weight behind the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited’s ongoing efforts to boost crude oil production and grow its reserves, saying it will consider stiffer consequences for crude oil thieves and vandals of the nation’s critical hydrocarbon infrastructure. According to a statement obtained from the Chief Corporate Communications Officer NNPC

First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has paid a condolence visit to the family of a former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, ahead of the funeral of his mother, Florence Saraki, in Lagos. According to a statement by her media aide, Bukola Kukoyi, on Tuesday, the First Lady condoled with the children, noting that her visit,

The Naval Flying Unit, Port Harcourt, which is tasked to operate helicopters in support of the Nigerian Navy surface fleets in the Niger Delta region, has expressed satisfaction over the improved successes so far recorded in the ongoing fight against crude oil theft in the region. This is just as the Navy vowed that there

Six foreign nationals were found dead in a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok on Tuesday, Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, with police suspecting they were poisoned. “There were no signs of a struggle,” Srettha told a press conference at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in the upscale Pathum Wan district, where the incident

Elon Musk on Tuesday said he would move the headquarters of SpaceX and X, formerly Twitter, to Texas after a Californian law blocked schools from forcing teachers to notify parents about changes to a student’s gender identity. “This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both