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By Femi Alabi United States Consul General, Will Stevens has said that Nigeria is United States’ second-largest trading partner in Africa with two-way trade exceeding 10.6 billion dollars in 2022. Stevens during the Omniverse Summit at Landmark Event Centre on Thursday, in Lagos, stated that his country is proud to be one of the largest foreign investors in Nigeria, with FDI totaling 5.6 billion dollars in 2022. The consul general spoke on the theme: “The Role of Technology in Fostering International Collaboration in an Interconnected World”. He noted that his country is commitment to supporting Nigeria and Africa on…
Agency report Five persons were confirmed dead in an accident at Fidiwo bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Four others sustained injuries in the accident. Mrs Florence Okpe, the Spokesperson, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun , confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Thursday. The accident which occurred about 2:48pm, involved a Prime bus with registration number, MUS 191 HA and a Toyota Camry car marked, AKD 754 BG. Okpe explained that the accident involved nine persons, comprising six female and three male adults. She explained that the accident was likely caused by excessive speeding and wrongful overtaking…
Agency report Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp on Feb. 16, is to be buried in Moscow on Friday, his spokeswoman posted on X, formerly Twitter. There will first be a funeral service in a church in the south-eastern district of Marjino, followed by the burial at a nearby cemetery, Navalny’s spokeswoman wrote. Navalny’s mother and his supporters had been fighting with Russian authorities to first get his body released and secondly to allow them to bury the deceased opposition leader in Moscow. Western leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,…
By Halimah Okanlawon Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka on Thursday said restructuring, which has been a major menu on the political discourse in Nigeria has become much more urgent today. Soyinka spoke at the Punch Nigeria Ltd 50th Anniversary Lecture titled “Recovering the Narrative at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Delivering a lecture on the theme, Soyinka said that Nigerians did not have to go through unending hardship to live better . He said that restructuring remained the panacea to sustainable development of the nation Soyinka said those leading the country recognised the importance of restructuring and its inevitability,…
By Halimah Olamide President Bola Tinubu on Thursday told the Nigerian Labour Congress that it is not the only voice that represent the opinions of Nigerians. Speaking in Lagos during the commissioning of the Red line train network, Tinubu said workers must wait till 2027 to decide his wait or keep their peace. The president said for the NLC to be calling workers out less than nine months in the life of an administration is unacceptable. He added that no matter how much they laid claim to their freedom and their rights, calling strikes within nine months of an administration…
By Halimah Olamide President Bola Tinubu on Thursday inaugurated the 37-kilometer Redline rail transport network amidst jubilant crowd of residents in Lagos. Tinubu had arrived at the venue of the inauguration at about 12 noon to kickstart the use of the rail line to which Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said will change the transport game in the state. The intra-city rail network will take passengers from Marina in Lagos and end at Agbado area of the state. The commissioning on Thursday had attracted a huge crowd as top government officials accompanied Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu to the event. The government had earlier…
By Femi Alabi. A 13-year-old Kelvin Onyengba has been swept away by the tide of the sea at Alatise beach in Ajah Lagos. The boy lost his life after he had gone to swim with five companions who were unaware when the boy succumbed to the powerful waves of the beach. A police source stated that the mother of the boy shared how the tide of the sea took away her son on Tuesday The incident occurred around Alatise beach on Tuesday, February 27, during a hangout with friends. Kelvin, who had gone swimming with five companions, succumbed to…
By Femi Alabi. Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Dr Olayemi Oyebanji, has appealed to market women to lower the prices of food and other goods that do not depend on foreign exchange, to help the ordinary citizens who are bearing the brunt of the hardship. Oyebanji made the appeal Today during a meeting with female market leaders (Iyalojas) from the 16 local government areas of the state in her office in Ado-Ekiti. She said that Gov. Biodun Oyebanji was worried about the high cost of food and other essential items in markets in the state. Oyebanji urged the…
By Femi Alabi. In its continued effort against banditry in the Federal Capital Territory FCT and its environs, operative of the FCT Police Command have arrested Samaila Wakili Fafa. Fafa, also known as Habu Ibrahim, is a kidnap kingpin who has been on the wanted list of the Command for a long time and bounty placed on him by the Minister FCT, Nyesom Wike. In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer FCT, Josephine Adeh, obtained on Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi’s X handle, said the suspect is one of the two kidnappers the FCT Minister…
By Halimah Okanlawon Nigeria’s Minister of Information Mohammed Idris has said that the current economic crisis in the country is not peculiar to Nigeria. Idris said the United Kingdom recently went into economic recession adding that it would have been another story had that been the case in the country. He said with the reforms being put in place, the narratives would change in the next one year. Idris spoke at the 50th anniversary lecture of the Punch Newspaper holding in Lagos. Calling on the media to support the Tinubu administration, Idris said there are many positive stories that are…