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Residents and pedestrians along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have lamented the continuous open defecation on the reconstructed drainage system. PUNCH Metro reported that the trend had become rampant as miscreants defaced the road median with faeces, thereby causing pedestrians who cross the expressway to cover their noses. Our correspondent who monitored the sanitary situation on the expressway […]
A Lagos-based lawyer, Olumide Sonupe, has been hospitalised after he was said to have been detained by the police while seeking the bail of his client at the Moshalashi Police Station in the Alimosho area of the state on December 30, 2023. PUNCH Metro learnt that the 36-year-old Olumide was taken to the hospital when his […]
The National Electricity Regulatory Commission has stated that electricity distribution companies require its approval before increasing tariffs. The spokesperson of the NERC, Usman Abba Arabi, made this disclosure in a chat with The PUNCH correspondent on Tuesday. There have been media reports that Discos had concluded plans to hike electricity tariffs in the New Year. Earlier, the […]
Several beneficiaries have been jolted by the deductions of thousands of naira from their bank accounts without any notice from the banks. The loan was disbursed to households and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the commercial banks in 2021. The fund, which was […]
There are strong indications that some Distribution Companies (DisCos) may have quietly effected a tariff change, contrary to the position of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) that it has not approved any electricity tariff increase. According to a consumer on the network of Ikeja Electric (IE), Mr. Abidemi Odeyingbo, a resident on Budland Street, Ojodu-Berger […]
The Federal Government has suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from the Republic of Benin and Togo. This decision was announced by the Federal Ministry of Education following an undercover investigation conducted by a Nigerian online platform that exposed a degree mill in Cotonou. The investigative report revealed that a journalist obtained a […]
As expected, telecommunications operators have started messaging subscribers found to have SIM irregularities, especially those who have been properly linked with their National Identification Numbers (NINs). This is even as crowds are returning to various National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) offices and outlets across the country. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had ordered telecommunications operators […]
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, inaugurated four key infrastructure projects conceived and facilitated by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila. The Governor commissioned a three-storey 80-bed Femi Gbajabiamila General Hospital sited at Iyun in Aralile Community in Surulere. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives remodelled a decrepit Primary Health Centre […]
The Nigeria Railway Corporation has concluded plans to launch night operations before the second quarter of 2024. The Managing Director of NRC, Fidet Okhiria, disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday. He started, “What is limiting us is the night operations, and that is not the way trains should […]
The Lagos State Police Command has said it is looking into the case of a suspected kidnap of a yet-to-be-identified female adult on Monday, January 1, on the Victoria Island area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known while speaking to PUNCH Metro on Tuesday. An X (formerly Twitter) user, […]
