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The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, has announced an 18 percent increase in fares for its Bus Reform Initiative, BRI, scheme. The upward review will take effect from February 17.LAMATA said the decision to hike the fares was due to the rising cost of diesel and the high number of buses that were out of operation due to the lack of spare parts.“The fare rise is because of the incr...

The authorities of the Nigeria Customs Service have handed over a total of 1,599 assorted arms and 2, 298 live cartridges to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW).Speaking during the handover ceremony in Lagos, the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, stated that some of the importers of the assault weapons have been convicted while other cases are still undergoing court p...

National Assembly has passed the sum of N54,990,165,355,396 Appropriation Bill into law for the 2025 fiscal year.The 2025 Budget was passed on Thursday by the both chambers of the National Assembly after due consideration.The passage of the bill followed a recent revision by President Bola Tinubu, who raised the budget from an initial N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion.The president said th...

A State High Court sitting in Kano, has Adjourned till April 15 hearing of all pending preliminary objections in the state government’s case against the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje alongside seven others, over alleged bribery and misappropriation of funds.It would be recalled that the state government instituted a case against Ganduje, alongside his wife, Hafsat Umar and others...

Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State has appealed to aggrieved PDP members to seize the opportunity presented by the ongoing reconciliation process to come back to the party.The Governor also called for peace and unity among the members of PDP in the Southeast Zone and the entire country.Mbah made the appeals when he received members of the PDP National Reconciliation Committee, led by a former governor of Osun ...

Nigeria has finally met the quota set for it by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a report by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission has shown.In January, Nigeria made real its focus on ramping up oil production, raising average daily crude output to 1,538,697 barrels. This is about 39,000 barrels above the 1.5mbpd set for the oil-producing country by OPEC.It was gathere...

The Federal Government has directed Ministries, Departments, and Agencies operating in states to stop running accounts with commercial banks in line with the Treasury Single Account policy.This was according to a press statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations at the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Bawa Mokwa.The statement noted that the Accountant-General of the Federatio...

Lawmakers at the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to urgently complete all abandoned road projects in the state, including the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Road in Igbogbo Bayeku, Ikorodu, which has been abandoned since it was awarded in 2017.The lawmaker representing Ikorodu II, Aro Moshood, raised the motion at the plenary.He recalled that during the last rainy season, a viral...

The Zamfara State Government said it had uncovered 2,363 ghost workers following the verification of civil and public servants in the state.Governor Dauda Lawal constituted a committee headed by the state Head of Service in August 2024 with the mandate to conduct the verification exercise of state workers.A statement by the governor’s spokesman, Sulaiman Idris, revealed that the verification process...

National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, has slammed the Canadian government over its decision to deny visas to Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, and other top military officers.Ribadu, who spoke on Thursday at the maiden annual lecture of the National Association of the Institute for Security Studies in Abuja, described the visa snub as “disrespectful” and declared that Canada &ld...