Following complaints by various state governments, the Federal Executive Council yesterday approved N105 billion as intervention funds for 44 road projects in the states intervention funds for 44 road projects in the states. The eight-hour council meeting, presided by Vice…
FG targets September for new minimum wage takeoff (Guardian)
The Federal Government will expedite action to ensure that a new minimum wage is ready by the second quarter of the year, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has promised. At the 2018 May Day celebration in Abuja, yesterday, he also assured…
NEMA: Governor fingered in plot against Osinbajo (Nation)
A state governor has been identified for involvement in an alleged plot to rubbish Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the operation of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Osinbajo heads the board of NEMA which has distributed relief materials to…
Osinbajo, House at war over N2.5b fraud (Nation)
The Presidency is not taking kindly to a recent invitation by the House of Representatives to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to appear before an ad hoc committee. The Ali Isa-led committee wants Osinbajo to appear before it on why six…
* Lagos APC: count us out of elongation (Nation) * Man collapses, dies after withdrawing N100,200 from bank (Punch)
THISISLAGOS MIDDAY NEWS UPDATE APRIL 9, 2018 Lagos APC: count us out of elongation (Nation) Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has nothing to do with those plotting for tenure elongation for the members of the…
‘Restructuring should allow states greater freedom’ (Guardian)
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, said he agreed with some Nigerians clamouring for the restructuring of the country. Osinbajo, who spoke to newsmen after the Great Nigeria Pastors conference which held at the Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall, University Teaching Hospital (UCH),…
Buhari, Osinbajo, Ambode eulogise Tinubu at 66 during colloquium in his honour
President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday took turns to eulogise the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as he clocks 66. An Alausa statement Thursday…
* Buhari arrives Lagos (Vanguard) * Cleric condemns Buhari’s trip to Lagos, says it’s Holy Thursday (Vanguard)
THISISLAGOS MIDDAY NEWS UPDATE MARCH 29, 2018 Buhari arrives Lagos (Vanguard) President Muhammdau Buhari has arrived Lagos for a two day working visit. According to Bashir Ahmad, the Special Adviser to President Buhari on New Media, the president’s visit…
How billions were moved to Jonathan’s residence from CBN ahead of 2015 elections (Nation)
More details have now emerged showing how billions of naira and hundred millions of dollars were illegally removed from the public till by the Jonathan administration specifically ahead of the 2015 presidential elections. The information came on the tail of…