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Ogun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday said that the Sagamu Interchange Bridge, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be temporarily closed from today. Mr Clement Oladele, the Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the temporary closure was due to the damage caused by the two tankers that …

…As Governor Says Oshiomhole, other EPM members are not APC members …Insists there is no division in Edo APC …Says INEC to announce fresh date for election into EDHA …Assures reconstruction of Sobe-Sabogida-Ora Road “Any person doing anti-party activities, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked us to deal with them. We have been told to go back to organise our party; …

Pastor Yohanna Buru, the General Overseer of Christ Evangelical and Life Intercessory Ministry Sabon Tasha-Kaduna, on Wednesday expressed delight at the large turnout of Muslims to celebrate Christmas with Christians in Kaduna. Buru said: “I am so delighted that a large number Muslims that came to celebrate this year’s  Christmas morning service with us. “This will  boost interfaith activities, promote religious tolerance …

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Christmas eve rejected gifts from the Edo State Government, official said. Mr Crusoe Osage, the Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communications, disclosed this in a statement in Benin on Wednesday. According to him, messengers from the state government were …

Representative Yusuf Gagdi, (APC/Pankshin-Kanke-Kanam), Plateau State of Nigeria, has donated 1,100 bags of rice and 24 cows to his constituents to celebrate the Christmas. Gagdi, who presented the items in Pankshin, said that the gesture was to support his constituents, particularly the less privileged, to celebrate with ease. “Though I am a Muslim, I believe Christmas is a season of …

Pope Francis urged the world to let the light of Christmas pierce the “darkness in human hearts” that leads to religious persecution, social injustice, armed conflicts and fear of migrants. In his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) Christmas Day message, the 83-year-old pope called for peace in the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday urged well-meaning Nigerians not to get carried away with the Federal Government’s release of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) and convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, from detention. The National Security Adviser (NSA) retired Col. Sambo Dasuki The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar …

The Department of State Services has released the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 general elections, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. His media outfit, Sahara Reporters, broke the news via its verified Twitter handle @SaharaReporters a few second ago. The medium had tweeted, “He was released on Tuesday evening following an order to the Department of State Services …

Releases N100m as compensation to Ekiosa inferno victims The Edo State Government has shed more light on the activities of suspected arsonists, working in cohorts with unscrupulous politicians under the aegis of the disbanded Edo Peoples Movement (EPM), to sabotage markets in Benin metropolis and the state government. The State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said this when he led members …

Eight months after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signed the new minimum wage bill into law, the Federal Government on Monday reflected the adjustments in the December salaries of civil servants. One of our correspondents who spoke to some civil servants on Monday was told that the new salary scale was what the government used in paying them …