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The Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State will receive N6.28 billion in surface maintenance, according to federal funding granted on Wednesday. After this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Babatunde Fashola, the minister of works and housing, briefed State House reporters. He stated that the 11 km of repairs, which will span over a 24-month period, will include interchanges, ramps, and crucial links. He said that the action was in line with Executive Order 11, which was issued by President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) in April 2022 and gave the nation’s national maintenance program legal standing.…

In advance of the nation’s scheduled general elections in June 2023, the West African Elders’ Forum (WAEF) has sent a pre-election fact-finding team to Sierra Leone under the direction of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. This information may be found in a statement made on Wednesday in Abuja by Wealth Ominabo, Communications Officer for the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF), which is hosting WAEF. Ominabo claimed that the fact-finding team also included former Gambian vice president Fatoumata Tambajang and former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan. In order to increase public confidence and trust in the election process, he stated that the team would…

Borno House of Assembly member-elect dies in IndiaDr. Nuhu Clark, a candidate for the House of Assembly seat representing Chibok, has passed away. The deceased passed away on Monday in India while receiving treatment. The development was announced on Wednesday by Babakura Abbajatau, State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information, and Culture. After communicating with the deceased person’s relatives, Abbajatau predicted that the state administration would issue a formal announcement shortly. The Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur, lamented the loss of the deceased while expressing sympathy to his immediate family, the residents of Southern Borno, and the state as a whole. Boko…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State’s February 7, 2023 list of delegates submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its upcoming governorship primary election has been declared invalid by a Federal High Court in Abuja. In a ruling on Wednesday, Justice James Omotosho stated that there was no evidence before the court to support the validity of the special ward congresses from which the alleged delegates were elected. Justice Omotosho further pointed out that the party had not offered any convincing proof that INEC had been keeping an eye on the particular congress or congresses where…

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the incoming president, and his wife Oluremi gave Christians and Muslims in Abuja more than 100,000 food combo packs yesterday. Dr. Betta Edu, the National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made the donations on their behalf. Edu stated that the intention was to express love to Nigerians during the holy season while speaking at the National Mosque in Abuja. She urged everyone to pause and pray for the country’s harmony, peace, love, safety, and other blessings. She said: “The President-elect, Tinubu, and the wife actually asked us to be here to distribute combo packs…

Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, was detained and questioned by customs officers for hours at Heathrow Airport in London regarding charges that were allegedly committed by an impostor, according to the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LPPCC). The Campaign Council, which raised the warning, claimed that the Peter Obi impersonator, who is still free, may commit a number of offenses that would result in his arrest in the UK. This is stated in a statement that Obi-Datti Head of Media Diran Onifade has signed. In the statement, he mentioned that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, who is currently in…

In an effort to better manage migrant arrivals and facilities for repatriation, Italy’s cabinet on Tuesday declared a state of emergency on immigration after a “sharp rise” in flows over the Mediterranean, according to a statement. According to the ministry of maritime and civil safety, the first budget for the state of emergency will be 5 million euros ($5.45 million), and it will endure for six months. Nello Musumeci, the minister of civil protection, stated: “Let there be no doubt, we are not solving the problem; the solution can only depend on responsible intervention by the European Union.” According to…

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter Inc., said on Wednesday that the social media business is “roughly breaking even,” noting that the majority of its advertisers have returned and that its aggressive cost-cutting measures have begun to pay off after significant layoffs. In an interview with the BBC that was live-streamed on Twitter Spaces, Musk said that the social media platform currently has roughly 1,500 workers, a significant decrease from the “just under 8,000 staff members” it had prior to his acquisition of the company in October. Since Musk paid $44 billion to acquire the social media platform, it has…

Famous Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie has refuted Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s assertion that the Obidients, as Peter Obi’s Labour Party supporters are affectionately known, are fascists. Soyinka accused Obidients of fascism in an interview on Saturday due to their claimed inability to accept constructive criticism as a “badge of honour.” Following an interview in which he stated that Bola Tinubu shouldn’t be sworn in as president, Soyinka also characterised Baba Ahmed-Datti, the vice presidential nominee of the Labour Party, as a fascist. Speaking on the topic that had stirred up debate on the internet, Chimamanda dissented from Soyinka, claiming that…

In order to give all herders with cattle in the state two weeks to depart, Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has suspended the operations of livestock guards and the state paramilitary organization tasked with enforcing the state’s open grazing laws. After more than 130 people were brutally murdered across the state in the course of one week, Ortom revealed this at the conclusion of the state security council meeting on Tuesday. He said that the suspension served as a warning to anyone who claimed to have entered the state unaware of the 2017 Ranches Establishment Law, which is entirely anti-grazing,…