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     …Advises LG To Invest in Agriculture To Boost IGR The Majority Leader, Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Hassan Oyeleke has exonerated Kwara State Government from allegation of diverting councils’ fund through Joint Allocation Account Committee (JAAC). Hon. Hassan Oyeleke in a radio programme recently stated that the State government led by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has not taken …

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The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, on Thursday disclosed that the nation lost about 148,533000 million litres of fuel to diversion during the December fuel crisis in Nigeria.  Speaking at an investigative public hearing by a Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Petroleum Downstream, at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, Baru disclosed …

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Dayo Emmanuel Nigerians have continued to agitate release of persons sentenced to death by military tribunals. After 18 years of uninterrupted democracy, it is sad that some Nigerians who were sentenced to death by military tribunals of the 1980s and 1990s still languish in prisons nationwide. Arthur Judah Angel is the Founder of Life Wire, an intervention organisation that sees …

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How Fuel Shortage, High Transport Fare Mar Christmas Across Lagos     Transport Fare Along Some Lagos Routes   Apapa to Ojuelegba =N200 against former N100 Iju-Elliot to Agege = N200 against former N50/100 Ikeja to Maryland = N200 against former N50 Ikorodu to Epe=N1,200 against former N600 Iju-Ishaga to CMS = N600 against former N350 Abule Egba to Ile …

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A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr.  Gabriel Fatoye, has criticised some retailers and service providers for deliberating increasing prices of products and services during the Christmas season. Fatoye, an Associate Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Odogunyan, Ikorodu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. The priest said that such …

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The Lagos State environment regulators have lauded Ecobank Nigeria’s various initiatives towards sustainable and safer environment in the state. The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) affirmed that Ecobank’s deliberate policy to rid the state of non-biodegradable materials like plastic bottles and used beverage cans would go a long way in protecting the …

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Tayo Olanipekun The Lagos State government on Friday said it would commence the disbursement of bursaries and scholarships totaling N635.576million to 8,419 students in the state tertiary institutions on December 27, 2017. In a statement by Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh, the commencement of the disbursement followed the approval of the governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, …

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The Department of Petroleum Resources said it has sealed 16 filling stations for selling petrol above N145 per litre pump price. The Operations Controller of DPR in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Tamunoiminabo Sundaye, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Eket on Monday. Sundaye, however, said some of the affected stations had paid the penalty and had signed …

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Tayo Olanipekun Three former governors of Lagos State were honoured on Wednesday by governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the state with a recreational park named after them. The ex governors so honoured were Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson (Rtd.), who was the first governor and Military Administrator of the state; Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the state’s first civilian governor and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, …

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*Lists Measures To Tackle Kidnapping Tayo Olanipekun Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday  said the Federal Government would demolish the Jibowu and Costain bridges  in the state. Ambode, while addressing participants at the annual state Security Trust Fund Town Hall meeting at the State House in  Alausa, said the bridges would be demolished to give way for the …

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