The Police in Kwara have arrested a 24-year-old man, Kehinde Moses, with a bag allegedly containing a freshly severed human head and hand along Ajase-Ipo road during stop and search duty. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mohammed Bagega,…
The Defence Headquarters has dissociated self from any anti-democratic utterances and positions as well as pledged loyalty to the President Muhammadu Buhari and the 1999 Constitution as Amended. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated this in a…
BUA has signed a contract to build a 285,000 tonnes per annum polypropylene plant as part of its proposed BUA Refinery. The deal was signed with Lummus Technology – a world leader in the construction of polypropylene projects, using their…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has given approval to Ikeja Electric Plc to invest the sum of N121.92 billion for infrastructure upgrade across its network within a period of five years. NERC, which is the regulator of Nigeria’s electricity…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Branch of University of Lagos Alumni Association has expressed its unabridged support to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over its fight against corruption in the country. The Chairman of the…
BudgIT has called on the government to audit security spending and close loopholes for corruption in the budget process. While speaking on BudgIT’s recent publication, “Demanding Budget Reforms for Resource Optimization”, Gabriel Okeowo, BudgIT’s CEO, said, “2021 has been a…
Mrs Doris Braimah, the Assistant Controller–General (ACG), Nigerian Immigration Service, Zone “A” Lagos , Mrs Doris Braimah on Monday gave the assurance that the service would make the nation’s borders tighter and impregnable by miscreants trying to damage the country’s…
By Asishana John Willus Tower Watson has revealed that global investment in the insurtech sector rebounded from its COVID-19 related slowdown a year ago to hit a new quarterly high of $2.55 billion in the first quarter of 2021. According…
…It is not a preferred option There is no room for a pretence or a denial of the current strong agitation for separation from most of the Federating units in Nigeria. Many are trying to moderate their calling for separation…
Last week, Nigerian NewsDirect published a feature on the efforts of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu led Administration towards the diversification of the Lagos State’s Economy by leveraging comparatively on the Coconut Value Chain, which presently places the State at the…
