The Third Mainland Bridge will be open for use by 12 noon today, Saturday. The minister of works, Babatunde Fashola disclosed this in a tweet on his official handle. He said: ”Third mainland bridge rehab completed. Fully opens to traffic at 12noon today. Thank you all for your patience. Drive safely”

The students abducted from Government Science College, Kagara, Niger state, have been freed by their abductors.  About 27 of the students and 12 other persons were kidnapped from the school when gunmen struck about 10 days ago. A source at the Niger state government house confirmed the development to our correspondent on Saturday. Abubakar Bello, the governor of Niger state, ...

Gunmen have kidnapped over 300 schoolgirls in Zamfara State. The abduction took place in the early hours of Friday, according to available report. The BBC Hausa Service is reporting that the school, Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, was attacked by several gunmen in the early hours of Friday. According to the report, ...

Niger Delta militants under the aegis of Supreme Egbesu Liberation Fighters have threatened to destroy infrastructure in Lagos State and Abuja. In a video posted on Tuesday by AIT, members of the group were seen wearing masks and putting on a military uniform. One of them, who read a statement on behalf of the group, lamented poor implementation of the ...

The Senate, on Thursday, considered a bill seeking to stop employers in the private and public sectors from engaging employable Nigerian graduates as casual workers. The Prohibition of Casualisation Bill 2020 was sponsored by Senator Ayo Akinyelure. Akinyelure said casualisation of Nigerian graduates in the Nigerian labour market had become a subject of great concern. He said more workers continued ...

The former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Okonjo-Iweala, whose tenure begins March 1, is the first woman and African to hold the position. Details later…

First Executive Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. The former Minister of Works passed on Thursday morning in Lagos at the age of 91. He is a  former journalist who became governor of Lagos State in Nigeria from 1979 to 1983, and later was Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993–98). More to come..

Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, on Thursday, said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), has extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector-General of Police for three months. The minister disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the extension was necessary to give room for the proper selection of ...

Mai Mala Buni, national caretaker chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says it is not in his party’s plan to field former President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2023 presidency. Buni’s statement comes weeks after he led APC governors to the residence of the former president in November 2020. While details of the meeting were not given, an insider had ...

The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday morning. It said the new deadline was now April 6, 2021. Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, said the extension was conveyed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. Pantami conveyed the ...