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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has directed residents occupying shanties and makeshift structures along the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway to vacate the area within 72 hours.The governor announced the directive on Saturday after leading the state's monthly environmental sanitation exercise across communities in Surulere Local Government Area.Accompanied by his wife, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, the governor said the sanitation exercise was part of the government's renewed commitment to promoting a cleaner environment and encouraging proper waste disposal across Lagos.Addressing journalists after the exercise, Sanwo-Olu revealed that enforcement teams would begin clearing all illegal structures on the expressway median from next week.According to him, the operat...

The Federal Government says it requires an estimated N4.55 billion over three years to recruit 122,696 health workers needed to fill vacant positions in Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities across 26 states nationwide.The Human Resource for Health and Project Management Lead at the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) Coordination Office, Zaiyanatu Umar, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja during the 15th Expanded Ministerial Oversight Committee meeting on national healthcare implementation.Umar said the estimate followed an analysis of baseline data submitted by 26 verified states that self-reported staffing levels against Primary Health Care Minimum Staffing Standards under the SWAp recruitment assessment exercise.“The baseline data received from SWAp was based on the recruitment tool t...

Residents and businesses across Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi, and Yobe states should prepare for a temporary electricity disruption on Sunday as the Transmission Company of Nigeria embarks on planned maintenance works aimed at strengthening the national grid.TCN disclosed the development in a statement issued on Friday by its spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, noting that the outage will also affect Gazaoua in the Niger Republic.According to the company, the interruption is necessitated by scheduled maintenance at the Kumbotso 330-kilovolt transmission substation, where ongoing upgrade works are being carried out to improve power reliability and transmission capacity.The maintenance will enable TCN’s contractor to continue the upgrade of the 330kV Bus II jumpers and replace existing 35...

The Independent National Electoral Commission  says it has yet to receive the Certified True Copy of the judgment delivered by the Federal High Court in Lokoja setting aside an earlier order relating to the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress.In an interview with PUNCH Online on Saturday, the Chief Press Secretary and Media Adviser to the INEC Chairman, Adedayo Oketola, said the commission was aware of media reports on the June 26 judgment but could not comment on its specifics until it obtained and reviewed the court’s decision.“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is aware of reports circulating in the media regarding the judgment delivered on Friday, June 26, 2026, by the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, which set aside an earlier ...

United States President Donald Trump has claimed that the US military has ended the killing of Christians in Nigeria.Trump made the remark on Friday during an event in Washington, where he spoke about his administration’s security operations and efforts to combat terrorism in different parts of the world.According to the US President, American intervention in Nigeria played a major role in halting attacks allegedly targeted at Christian communities, particularly in areas affected by insurgency and violent extremist activities.“As you know, we recently struck Nigeria and largely ended the slaughter of great Christian populations.He described the situation before the alleged intervention as severe, claiming that thousands of innocent people, including women, children ...

The police command in Lagos has arrested a man, Samson Onilewaji, 21, after he was found with body parts, firearms, and stolen items during a stop-and-search along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. The command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Adebisi, said the suspect was intercepted in an unregistered commercial shuttle bus carrying six occupants. She said a search of the vehicle and its occupants led to the recovery of a suspected human right hand, two locally made pistols, one live cartridge, two axes, a point-of-sale terminal, and five ATM cards from the suspect. “During a search of the vehicle and its occupants, the suspect, identified as Samson Onilewaji, ‘M’, aged 21 years, was found in possession of a suspected human right hand, two locally made pistols, one live cartridge, two axes...