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 LASG OFFICIALS RECEIVE MS. PELUMI NUBI, UK-BASED NIGERIAN WHO DROVE LONDON-LAGOS AT THE SEME BORDER, BADAGRY, ON SUNDAY, 7TH APRIL 2024   Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka (right), Ms. Pelumi Nubi (second right); her mother, Bukola and Special Adviser to the Governor on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Idris Aregbe (left), during the arrival of Ms. Nubi, who drove from London to Lagos received by the Lagos government officials at the Seme Border, Badagry, Lagos, on Sunday, 07 April 2024. Ms. Pelumi Nubi speaking to the media (second left); Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka (left); Special Adviser to the Governor on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Idris Aregbe (second right) and Executive Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora and Foreign Relations, Mr. Jermaine Sanwo-Olu, during the arrival of Ms. Nubi, who drove from London to Lagos received by the Lagos government officials at the Seme Border, Badagry, Lago...

 ALLEGATIONS BY ST. MARGARET SCHOOL: LASBCA CLEARS AIR ON WRONGFUL DETENTION, DEMOLITION  The Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), saddled with the statutory responsibility of enforcing the Building Control Regulations, has cleared the air on the recent allegations made by St. Margaret School in some sections of the media regarding alleged wrongful detention of their members of staff and sealing/demolition of structures in their school.  LASBCA categorically refuted all the allegations made by St. Margaret  School, describing them as false baseless, unfounded and totally without merit. A statement issued over the weekend by LASBCA explained that St. Margaret's School along Ebute Road, Ikorodu was visited by officials of the Agency on the 27th of March, 2024 for a routine monitoring exercise at about 12:48 pm to ascertain whether the renovation works found to have been carried out in the school premises comply with the regulatory provisions of the law. Upon g...

 Cardoso sacks eight CBN directors, 32 others  The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has sacked another set of 40 staff mostly from the Development Finance Department (DFD), in furtherance of its ongoing restructuring. The deputy directors and assistant directors were more affected with 22 from the DFD and the remaining 18 from the Medicals and Procurement Services Department. Also affected were eight directors, 10 deputy directors, five assistant directors, two principal managers, and two senior managers. Considering the recent the number of affected staff, the total has now reached 67, in what appears to be a series by the Olayemi Cardoso-led Board of Governors. Remember that no fewer than 27 members of staff, most of them directors at the Central Bank of Nigeria, were affected by the first batch of dismissals.

 Emefiele arrives Lagos Court for Arraignment  The embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has arrived at the Ikeja State High Court in Lagos for his arraignment over alleged abuse of office and allocation of billions of dollars. Emefiele, alongside his co-defendant, one Henry Isioma Omole, will be arraigned on fresh  26 counts  before Justice Rahman Oshodi this morning.

 I have no plans to leave Labour Party – Peter Obi Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has reaffirmed his commitment to the party, dismissing rumors of an imminent departure. Despite the internal crisis rocking the party, Obi affirmed that he has no intentions of leaving anytime soon. He also declared that he is not in any way desperate to be Nigeria’s President at any point in his life. He spoke while fielding questions from journalists in Bauchi on Sunday shortly after commissioning a hand pump for water supply in Sabon Layi community, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis. Obi said, “I am not thinking of 2027, my concern for now is how to improve the living standards and conditions of Nigerians. “Nobody should be talking about politics now, the focus should be on good governance that will make Nigeria better.” Speaking on the internal crisis rocking the opposition party, the former Anambra governor said, “The leadership crisis in the LP pre...

 Men still want me at 59, Rita Edochie brags Actress Rita Edochie has bragged about her youthful days claiming she was every man’s dream wife. Sharing an A.I generated picture in her younger years, Rita said men were so crazy about her but she was very selective of them. According to her, she needed to get the best man that deserved her and at 22, her husband came her way and she quickly grabbed him because he was the only man that deserved her. Rita made it known that despite being of age, men are still asking her out, taking a swipe at Judy, Yul Edochie’s second wife. She added that despite being the hot chick, she never snatched any woman’s husband. She wrote: “I have always told people that my youthful days were so hot, you all thought I was playing? “Men were crazy about me but trust Ijele, I was very selective because I needed to get the best man that deserved me and at age 22, my great husband came. Tony Edochie came my way and I quickly grabbed him because he was the only m...

Youths burn hotel over alleged murder in Imo community Youths of Umulogho community in Obowo Local Government Area have burnt part of a hotel building over the alleged killing of a staff, Ebuka Nwaneri, for reportedly stealing a phone at the weekend belonging to a military personnel. The owner of the hotel, Ibe Obasi and phone owner, a military personnel, who came to the hotel to relax allegedly accused the staff of stealing the missing phone. A source from the community, who narrated the incident to The Nation, said the deceased was locked up in a generator house to make him confess to the crime. But the victim, according to the source, later died from the alleged torture. His corpse was reportedly thrown over the fence of the hotel to the adjoining bush by the suspects. But youths in the community later found the corpse on Saturday morning. A source in the community said: “The deceased was working for the suspect and a phone got lost,the phone belonged to a military man on duty at th...