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…Says He Will Not Be Distracted By Campaigns Of Lies And Calumny The attention of the Office of the Vice President has been drawn to a series of tweets and online publications by PointBlank News and Newsreel.com.ng today 8th July 2020, credited to the same person, one Jackson Ude. In …

The leadership of the Ondo State House of Assembly has suspended two lawmakers for unruly behavior amid the impeachment proceedings against Agboola Ajayi, the deputy governor. The affected lawmakers are Iroju Ogundeji and Adewale Williams. The two were among the nine lawmakers who did not sign the impeachment notice against the deputy governor. Ajayi …

The federal and Lagos state governments have announced a traffic management plan for the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge which will last for six months At a joint media briefing on Tuesday, Kayode Popoola, the federal controller of works in Lagos, said the routine maintenance of the bridge will be carried out from …

  The Head of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mohammed Umar, has resumed as the acting chairman of the agency. Until his assumption, Umar, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, was the second most senior official at the agency. It was gathered that there was a push from …

 Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo SAN FCIArb (UK) has revealed that, there’s a conspiracy to thwart his efforts and push him out of the ongoing federal government’s 774,000 jobs. The Minister noted this in reaction to the Senate President’s submission asking him, as the supervising Minister of the …

Federal Government and Lagos State Government have appealed to motorists and Lagos residents to cooperate with government and appropriate agencies during the six months partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge for maintenance work, which is expected to commence on July 24. Speaking during a press conference jointly addressed by …

Ibrahim Magu may have been suspended as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This development comes a day after he was arrested and detained by security operatives in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier set up a presidential panel headed by Justice Ayo Salami to probe the various …

There is tension in Ondo State as members of the state House of Assembly have commenced the process of removing the Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi. The lawmakers are currently in session deliberating on the allegations of gross misconduct against the embattled deputy governor. Armed policemen and Nigerian Security and Civil …

  The private sector-led Coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated N1.4 billion worth of medical supplies and additional 26,400 test kits sufficient to set up six fully functional COVID-19 medical laboratories in the fight against the pandemic.   Presenting the test kits and medical equipment at the Nigeria Centre for …

A former General Manager of the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, Jide Odekunle, is dead. The PUNCH learnt that Odekunle, who served under former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration for four years and 11 months, died of COVID-19 complications. He was said to have been treated at the Onikan …