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Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the full reopening of worship centres in the state. He said this during a briefing in Lagos on Saturday. The governor said mosques can hold their prayers five times daily while churches can also commence weekly services. Details later…

In a bid to provide sustainable solutions to some of the social, economic and environmental challenges in Lagos State, the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Eko has launched Social Enterprises Masterclass (SEM) targeted at training 100 youths across the state. JCI said that SEM was a fully funded training opportunity aimed …

Nigerian police said they have commenced an investigation into a video of a man in ‘police uniform’ smoking shisha. Shisha-smoking is usually done with an apparatus which consist of a tube and a bowl. Medical experts said smoking shisha can cause cardiovascular diseases. The 56-second video, posted on Facebook and …

The Federal Government has directed the various unions in the health sector operating under the Joint Health Sector Unions not to go ahead with the strike declared for Sunday midnight by Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU). The Ministry of Labour and Employment in a statement said it had “apprehended the …

Four PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ workers in Nigeria were interrogated by the police over the mysterious death of the company’s Deputy Country Senior Partner, Tola Ogundipe. Ogundipe had gone for a boat cruise before his death. He is said to have drowned while boating. His boat was seen and his body was later …

…Demands immediate reversal The Yoruba One Voice (YOV), a coalition of all Yoruba groups and organisations in the diaspora consisting of more than fifty Yoruba organisations from the four continents of the world strongly display concerns over the federal government increase of electricity tariff and fuel price. In a press …

  The life of a pregnant woman may have been saved if the doctor that was to operate on her was not allegedly held by policemen enforcing the curfew in place to restrict movement amid the COVID-19 pandemic. PUNCH Metro gathered that the surgeon was held for about one hour …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pegged the maximum loan an obligor can access under its N250bn intervention fund for the gas sector at N10bn. It made this known in a guideline titled ‘Framework for the implementation of intervention facility for the national gas expansion programme’, which was released …

In a surprise move, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved an increase in electricity tariff with effect from September 1, 2020 (today). This comes three months after the tariff hike implementation slated for July 1 was halted by the National Assembly, which prevailed on the distribution companies to shelve …

Chiamaka Ajeamo – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Life Assurance (GLA) scheme claims ratio for the last 10 years have shown a strong and sustained claims settlement, according to investigations. Analysis of the Corporation’s GLA claim settlement over the first three years shows the highest claims collected under the scheme …