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The Managing Director, Lagos Ferry Services (LAGFERRY), Mr Abdoulbaq Balogun, said the service ferried over 200, 000 passengers within 150 days of operations in 2020. Balogun, who made the disclosure in a New Year message to commuters on Sunday, in Lagos, while mapping out LAGFERRY’s operational strategies for 2021, added that the service would have done better if not for the interruptions caused by the COVID–19 pandemic and #ENDSARS protests. He assured that commuters would witness a lot o...

Shell Petroleum Development Company Following the possession of Kidney Island by the Rivers State Government on Wednesday, Managing Director, SPDC and Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor dismissed the action as “premature and unlawful”. Okunbor, dismissing “the purported takeover” of Kidney Island asset by Rivers Government said the state’s rights to the acquisition of the said assets is still a subject of ongoing appeals at the Court of Appeal sitting in Port ...

TODAY File Photo Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has dismissed a purported takeover of its Kidney Island asset by Rivers state government. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Gbenga Odugbesan, spokesman for SPDC. Earlier on Wednesday, Kelvin Ebiri, special assistant to the governor of Rivers state on media, said the Island used by Shell as their operational base in Port Harcourt now belongs to the state government following a certificate of purchase registered in Port Harco...

ON THE GO AFCON qualifier: Tickets will not be sold for Eagles, Lesotho clash The Lagos state sports commission (LSSC) has announced that tickets for the match between Super Eagles and Lesotho will not be available to the public but an invited few in... New Zealand approves paid leave for couples who suffer miscarriage New Zealand’s parliament, on Wednesday, unanimously approved a law that would give couples who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth three days of paid leave.  ...

Spread the love (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has dismissed the purported takeover of Kidney Island asset of the SPDC Joint Venture in Port Harcourt by the Rivers State Government in the exercise of rights purportedly  acquired through a court auction process that is still the subject of ongoing appeals at the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt. According to SPDC, any purported exercise of rights allegedly acquired through that p...

By Grace Alegba Lagos, Dec. 19, 2020 The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola on Saturday commended the efforts of the Chairman of Mushin Local Government for helping to recover project site hijacked by hoodlums. Popoola told newsmen that the rehabilitation drive of the Federal Government to make all roads motorable before Yuletide had hit a brick wall in the Mushin axis. He explained that hoodlums had hijacked the construction zone on the Agege Motor Road demanding payme...

Lagos Light Rail: 17 years after, failed promises, rot, neglect trail project More than a decade since the construction of the Lagos Light Rail has commenced, it has failed to see the light of the day. 10 min read The poor state of the road, occasioned by the neglect of the 27km-long Marina-Okokomaiko section of the Lagos light rail project, mirrors the rot that is beneath the façade of “excellence” which successive governments in Lagos have continued to pride themselves wi...

The coronavirus pandemic disrupted about 94 per cent of education world over, with nearly 1.6 billion people affected across all continents. Recently, members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament converged on Lome, Togo for a meeting. Members were drawn from the Joint Committee on Education, Science and Technology; Telecommunication and Information Technology; Political Affairs, Peace and Security, as well as Infrastructure. They were saddled with the responsibi...