The Association of Resident Doctors in the Ondo State University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH) on Monday began its indefinite strike action over non-payment of four months’ salary. This is just as the legal officers in the Ondo State Ministry of Justice under the auspices of Law Officers Association of Nigeria (LOAN) withdrew its services over what it termed ... Read More »

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, will host an SME webinar themed “Rebuilding your Business” by 10am on Tuesday, 10 November 2020 via Zoom meetings. The event is organised in collaboration with FBN Insurance Brokers and FBN Quest with its discussants including: Tunde Owolabi, Group Executive, Retail Banking (Lagos & West), FirstBank; Olumide ... Read More »

The Lagos States Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) over the weekend served a 7-day ‘Removal Order’ to owners/occupiers of all illegal structures/shanties including containarised shops around Fagba along Abbatior new Oko-Oba to remove them with their belongings immediately. Chairman of the Agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi who led the enforcement team of the Agency disclosed that over 2500 illegal ... Read More »

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has again directed that all policemen attached as personal security to notable personalities and organizations, be withdrawn. Adamu had on October 21, 2020 in a wireless message, ordered that all policemen serving such purposes be recalled as part of efforts to reorganise and boost internal security nationwide. Those exempted from the order were ... Read More »

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No fewer than 15 shops were on Saturday ransacked, looted and razed at Agbeni Ologede market, Ibadan on Saturday by suspected hoodlums. Goods worth tens of millions were both stolen and destroyed while the incident lasted. According to unconfirmed sources, the shops were razed to cover up the lootings perpetrated by the yet-to-be-identified hoodlums. The sources noted that the hoodlums ... Read More »

Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to have defeated Donald Trump and will become the 46th president of the United States, capping a dramatic election that saw the president prematurely declare victory after the Democratic nominee spent months declaring him unfit for office. Mr Biden, now declared as the president-elect after his third White House bid, secured the presidency ... Read More »

Democrat Joe Biden has taken the lead in key battleground state Pennsylvania, where a victory for the former vice president would push him past the threshold of electoral votes needed to win the White House, US media said Thursday. More ballots are yet to be counted, but shortly before 1400 GMT, CNN and The New York Times reported that Biden ... Read More »

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters is showing the footage captured by the surveillance camera at the Lekki toll gate on October 20. The Managing Director of LCC, Abayomi Omomuwa, had submitted the video footage on Tuesday. Soldiers have been accused of shooting at #EndSARS protesters, injuring and ... Read More »

Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead Friday in the crucial battleground state of Georgia, US media said, with votes still left to count. The former vice president ate away at President Donald Trump’s initial lead in the southern state and is now ahead by 917 votes, CNN and Fox News reported. Trump won Georgia by five percentage points in 2016. Read More »