Author: City Radio

Kogi State Police Command has ordered restriction of vehicular movement from 11:59 pm on Friday, November 10, to 6 pm on Saturday, November 11. Spokesman of the command, SP William Aya, made this known in a statement on Friday in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital that the movement restriction was due to the governorship election […]

Troops from the Nigerian Army have allegedly killed six ISWAP terrorists and rescued 78 people held captive in the Gamborun Ngala area of Borno State. According to a statement issued by a top security expert in the Northern part of Nigeria, Zagazola Makama on Friday, troops of 7 Division and Sector 1 Operation Hadin Kai […]

The Federal Government’s recently agreed wage with the Labour Congress, salaries to federal workers, and other non-debt recurrent costs are expected to gulp N7.76tn in 2023. This is based on data from the initial 2023 budget and recently signed 2023 supplementary budget. The country’s central government recently approved a N2.18tn budget to augment new expenses, […]

President Bola Tinubu on Friday described the death of Nigeria’s first female Major-General, Aderonke Kale, as a painful loss to the country. Kale, also the first female Commander of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps died on Thurday at the age of 84. Tinubu, in a condolence statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmood Yakubu has said that the choice of who become the next Governor of Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states rest solely with voters.  To ensure a credible election, the INEC boss said the Commission is deploying 2 National Commissioners and Nine Resident Electoral Commissioners and Administrative […]

The Federal Government on Thursday berated the organised Labour over the strike it declared in Imo State and its planned nationwide strike scheduled for November 14 because of the physical attack on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, the state capital. The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, […]

The Federal Government says it will start charging owners of completed unoccupied houses triple ground rents instead of the single rate normally charged from three months after completion. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ahmed Dangiwa said this in an interview with newsmen during his continuation to site visits of housing projects constructed […]

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero on Friday said that he was arrested in Owerri by the Police and was handed over to waiting thugs that got him thoroughly beaten. He said that the thugs who were about seven in number dragged him on the floor like a common criminal. Briefing […]