More than 1,000 Algerian passengers are stranded at Istanbul airport because of the new coronavirus pandemic, the facility’s operator said Tuesday, as Ankara urged Algiers to allow their return home. Algiers is refusing to let them back into the country, according to IGA Airport Operations. “We, as IGA, Turkish Red …
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), wrote a letter to Nigerians to commemorate the New Year. The letter was made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. Read the full content of the letter below: A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AT NEW YEAR My Dear Compatriots, NIGERIA’S DECADE Today …
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The Lagos State House Assembly has set up a committee to investigate the purchase of 820 buses by the government of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. The House said it was important to investigate the purchase of the 820 buses out of the 5,000 buses proposed by Ambode for mass transit …
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The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) says it has yet to recover the bodies of two persons involved in boat accident at Irewe Community in Ojo, near Lagos late on Tuesday. Its General Manager, Mr Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that rescue …
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The Federal Government has shifted the planned closure of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for repairs from Aug. 3 to Sept. 2. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Adedamola Kuti, made the announcement in Lagos on Friday. He explained that due to the busy nature of the highway, the Federal …
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Vehicular movement on the Ife-Ibadan Expressway was noticeably light on Friday and Saturday, a development attributed to the incessant attacks by armed bandits on commuters and motorists on the highway. Going from Osogbo to Ikire on Friday, reporters observed fewer vehicles on the ever-busy road which connects the South-West region …
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Persistent as ever, Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, is pressing ahead with an ambitious national railway construction programme that comes with a hefty $45 billion price tag. This is fine, since Nigeria’s current 3,500 kilometres of track is grossly inadequate, leaves the economy hobbled and traps the country in under-development. But …
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