Ethiopian Airlines pilots followed proper procedures when their Boeing MAX 8 airplane repeatedly nosedived before a March 10 crash that killed 157 people, Ethiopia’s minister of transport said on Thursday as she delivered the first official report on the disaster. “The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by theContinue Reading
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has appointed Mrs. Teju Abisoye as the acting Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, LSETF. This was made known on Wednesday in a post on LSETF’s official Twitter handle. Abisoye takes over from Mr. Akin Oyebode who was recently appointed as the Special AdviserContinue Reading
The Presidency said on Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari had yet to sign the National Minimum Wage Bill just passed by the National Assembly into law, contrary to reports last week that he had done so. The Senate had on March 19 passed the bill, approving N30,000 as the newContinue Reading
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has profferred reasons why the Northern Nigeria is poor inspite of its huge agricultural potentials. Speaking at the fourth Economic and Investment summit in Kaduna on Wednesday, Dangote, who was the guest speaker noted that more than 60 per cent of the populace in the NorthContinue Reading
The National Judicial Commission, NJC, has finally taken a decision on the allegations of misconduct brought against suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen. They also reached a decision on allegation against Acting CJN, Tanko Muhammad. The Council decided that the allegations relating to assets declaration that were levelledContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn says he was “shocked” by footage apparently showing British paratroopers using his photograph as a target. An image of the Labour was apparently used as target practice by four soldiers, thought to be based in Kabul, Afghanistan with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment. The opposition leader said: “I’mContinue Reading
A MAN has been killed in a “machete attack” in the latest tragedy of the capital’s knife crime epidemic. The victim, believed to be in his mid-40s, was pronounced dead at the scene on Northolt Road in Harrow, north west London this afternoon. Paramedics from London’s Air Ambulance battled inContinue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday declared Nyesome Wike of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the March 9th governorship election in Rivers state. The Returning Officer for River state, Professor Teddy Adias of the Niger Delta University Otuoke, Bayelsa state who declared Wike winner of theContinue Reading
Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s resounding victory was a clear call for change at City Hall and a historic repudiation of the old-style, insider politics that have long defined the nation’s third-largest city. Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who’d never been elected to public office, defeated Cook County Board President andContinue Reading
Walter Onnoghen, the suspended chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has denied all allegations levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before the National Judicial Council (NJC). EFCC accused him of “financial impropriety, infidelity to the constitution and other economic and financial crimes related laws” and asked that he beContinue Reading
