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The federal approval recently granted the Lagos State Government to embark on the development of a passenger and cargo airport on the Lekki-Epe axis of the State has been officially presented. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, received the Federal Government’s instrument authorising the State to commence the airport project. Minister for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, presented the document to the Governor on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ongoing Lagos Economic Summit (Ehingbeti) 2022 taking place at Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island. Lagos Government initiated the aviation project, through a Public Private Partnership (PPP), in response to the pace of development on Lekki-Epe axis, which is now a fast-growing hub of commerce and industrial activities. The entire airport infrastructure will be sited on 3,500 hectares, with the first phase of the project estimated to cost $900 million. Some private consortia have already expressed their interests in developing the

Anambra State Government Conducts Open Bidding For IGR Concessions.  Governor Chukwuma Soludo has reiterated his commitment to follow due process in all government engagements for the ultimate benefit of Ndi Anambra. Governor Soludo stated this at Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka during the open bidding for all government internally generated revenue (IGR) concessions.  The process was conducted to sufficiently achieve the goal of keeping tab on government revenue sources.  The award of the concessions will follow after the successful bidding process.  The bid process follows the announcement by the Governor on immediate cancellation of all internally generated revenue (IGR) concessions in the state. Speaking, Governor Soludo stressed that the first pillar of his administration is security, law and order, reiterating his insistence on the enthronement of transperancy in all government dealings. While stating that public office is a public trust, the Governor point

President Buhari presides over the Presentation of National Honours in Abuja on 11th Oct 2022 National Honours 1: President Buhari presenting the Honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) to Senate President Ahmed Lawan as he presides over the Presentation of National Honours in Abuja on 11th Oct 2022 National Honours 3: President Buhari presenting the Honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) to DG WTO Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as he presides over the Presentation of National Honours in Abuja on 11th Oct 2022 National Honours 4: President Buhari presenting the Honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) to UN Deputy Sec. Gen. Amina Mohammed as he presides over the Presentation of National Honours in Abuja on 11th Oct 2022 National Honours 5: President Buhari presenting the Honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) to Ooni of Ife HRM Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II as he presides over the Presentation of National

Buckingham Palace is pleased to announce that the Coronation of His Majesty The King will take place on Saturday 6th May, 2023. The Coronation Ceremony will take place at Westminster Abbey, London, and will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Ceremony will see His Majesty King Charles III crowned alongside The Queen Consort. The Coronation will reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry. Further details will be announced in due course. More photos below. 

1971 bedknobs and broomsticks star "Angela Lansbury" has died aged 96. The actress, famed for her iconic roles in Murder, She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. A statement from her family read: 'The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday.'. Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) was an Irish-British[2] and American actress and singer who played many film, theatre and television roles. Her career, one of the longest in the entertainment industry, spanned over 80 years, much of it in the United States; her work also received much international attention. Upon the death of Olivia de Havilland in July 2020, Lansbury became the earliest surviving Academy Award nominee and one of the last stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood c

#PhotoNews: Federal Government honours IGP, others... Conferment of National Honours, Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR), on the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba,  psc(+), NPM, fdc, and retired IGPs - Dr Solomon E. Arase, NPM, fdc, and Mohammed A. Adamu, NPM, mni, and Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), on Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Sanusi Lemu, mni, by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, today October 11, 2022, at the International Conference Center, Abuja. In the same vein, late CSP Ibrahim O. Mohammed, CSP Benedict Okoh Ajide, Sgt Adesina Isaiah and Sgt Umar Saidu were bestowed posthumously with the National Honours of the Member of the Order of the Niger (MON)  and Federal Republic Medal (FRM) respectively. More photos below. 

PRESS RELEASE Nigeria Hails US over Benin Bronzes' Repatriation, To Exhibit Returned Artworks The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has commended the United States for the repatriation to Nigeria of 23 Benin Bronzes, part of the thousands of artifacts that were looted by the British during their invasion of Benin Kingdom in 1897. The Minister gave the commendation at the Benin Bronzes' repatriation ceremony in Washington, DC, on Tuesday ''Please permit me, on behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, to most sincerely thank the United States and her major cultural heritage institutions for the return of these highly-cherished Benin Bronzes to Nigeria - which is the reason we are here today,'' he said. ''These artifacts are intrinsic to the culture that produced them. A people ought not be denied the works of their forebears. It is in the light of this that we are delighted with today's repatriation of the Benin Bronzes,&

NIGERIAN ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS CONDUCTS ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION EXERCISE IN OJUELEGBA LAGOS The Headquarters Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps Abalti Barracks Ojuelegba Lagos has today Monday 10 Oct 22 conducted sanitation exercise as part of the civil-military cooperation and activities lineup for the Reunion and Pulling out Parade of retired Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps Senior Officers. The sanitation exercise which was conducted at Ojuelebga under bridge in Surulere was attended by officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps alongside officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Waste Management Authority and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers. While flagging off the exercise, the Corps Commander Ordnance Maj Gen Adeyemi Alabi stressed that the exercise is part of the Nigerian Army corperate social responsibility aimed to commemorate the pulling out and reunion of the retiring senior Officers. He stated that the exercise is to give back

Nigerian Soldier Arrested For Stealing, Selling Ammunition To Terrorists ANigerian soldier, Iorliam Emmanuel has been arrested for stealing and selling ammunition to Boko Haram terrorists. In a viral video, Emmanuel, said to have been attached to the 156 Task Force Battalion, codenamed "Operation Hadin Kai", in Mainok, Borno state was disarmed, searched and found to be carrying ammunition. The video shows as the ammunition was removed from a piece of clothing strapped around his waist. His colleagues could be heard saying, "God pass you, 99 days for the thief; so you'll go and give Boko Haram to come and attack us (sic)?"  

Photos: Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. MB Marwa (Retd) being decorated with the insignia of the National Honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari at the national awards ceremony in Abuja today Tuesday 11th October 2022. One more photo below. 

Herdsmen Murder: Police Warn Kaduna Residents Against Extrajudicial Killing Yekini Ayoku, the police commissioner in Kaduna, has warned residents against extrajudicial killings. Mr Ayoku gave the warning in a statement issued on Wednesday by the command’s spokesman, DSP Mohammed Jalige. He said the command would not condone “the unacceptable and patently illegal resort to mob action, lynching and extra judicial killings by individuals in any part of the state.” The police chief was reacting to the lynching of two herdsmen in the Birnin Gwari local government area of the state. “This barbaric act cannot find justification under our laws. The responsibility of everyone under the law is not to pass judgment but to hand over anyone suspected of any infraction or offence, no matter the degree of suspicion, to the police or other appropriate security and law enforcement agencies,” said Mr Ayoku. The herdsmen were mobbed and killed on Sunday. He assured that the ongoing investigations into th

Police Dispers Protesting Kaduna Traders Traders at the Kasuwan Barci market in Tudun Wada area of Kaduna metropolis have clashed with the police when they staged a protest asking Governor, Nasir El-Rufai to obey court order by paying them compensation over their demolished shops in the market. A Kaduna State High Court has ordered the state government that each of the shop owners in Kasuwan Barci be reinstated back to the market and the shop owners called on the government to respect the constituted authority and obey the court order. But a protest organised by the traders to drive home their demand was however, stalled as a detachment of police allegedly told the traders that there was an order from above to stop the protest. “Some officers and men of the Police force who were at the scene of the protest immediately dispersed the shop owners from addressing their members and the journalists .The Police pulled down all the canopies arranged for the event along Kasuwan Barci axis o

96 SUSPECTED CULTISTS ARRESTED IN BENUE Chairman Gboko local government area of Benue State Isaac Mtom has disclosed that 96 suspected cultists have been arrested through the efforts of his taskforce team and handed over to the Benue Police Command for onward investigation. Mtom who disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP lamented that on assumption of office, he discovered that the people of Gboko, the headquarters of the Tiv nation, housing the paramount ruler of the Tiv people, were not sleeping with their eyes closed. He said, “When I discover this, I quickly constituted a Taskforce team to help the conventional security in the arrest of cultists and criminals, because the conventional security may not know their hideouts and on the daily basis in the mid night over 500 cultists less than 18 years of age go out terrorising residents and whoever they caught only God can tell the rest of the story.” According to him, “I said to myself I cannot allow criminals and cultists to t

AZ:5310/OGS/PRO/VOL.7/159. 11/10/2022 OGUN POLICE ARRESTS THREE MEN FOR ATTEMPTING TO KIDNAP THEIR FORMER EMPLOYER.  Men of Ogun state Police Command have arrested three men for attempting to kidnap their former employer in Ijebu ode area of Ogun state.  The three suspects, Peter Nse 24 years, Chuckwuma Nwobodo 48 years and Michael Umanah 30 years  were arrested following a complain lodged at Igbeba divisional headquarters by one Ifenuga Olayinka, who reported that he received a text message his phone from someone who described himself as a "' Killer Vagabond of Africa "". In the said message, the author directed the complainant to pay the sum of #5 million into a bank account he sent to him or risk been kidnapped within the shortest possible time.  Upon the report, the DPO Igbeba division, CSP Musiliu Doga detailed his detectives to unravel those behind the devilish message.  The detectives there and then embarked on technical and intelligence based investigation wh