Taskforce Chairman News Today

The Jigawa State Task Force on Petroleum products has shut down five filling stations for tampering with their metres and engaging in some activities to

Contributing, the Secretary, ANLCA TinCan chapter, said goods were not being cleared at the port due to the challenge. | Pulse Nigeria

Officials of the Lagos State Task Force have arrested 77 prostitutes and other suspected criminals during a midnight raid in some parts of the state, NewTelegraph reports.…

An estimated N65 million was, yesterday, lost as cargoes got trapped at the Lagos port following the Nigerian Ports Authority’s (NPA) total closure of the facility and restriction of access to port users over President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit.

Land owners in Lagos State have raised the alarm over how some police officers in the state encroached and sold lands belonging to Lagos residents, using the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba Alkali, to justify their acts. SaharaReporters gathered that some of the police personnel invaded and grabbed lands in the Eti-Osa/Chevron Estate as they chased away the owners of an 8223 sqm landed property and their workers from the site claiming they were acting on directives of the state Gover...

  The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has disclosed its plan to embark on a nationwide protest over the government’s failure to address the lingering strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other staff unions. This was made known in a circular signed by the union president, Usman Umar Barambu and dated Monday, September 19, 2022. In the circular, Barambu directed all zonal coordinators and students' unions of various schools to mobilise their member...

Students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South West zone, on Monday blocked the road leading to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, protesting against the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).   The students who were blocked by security operatives from gaining access to the airport took over the road, preventing traffic flow both inward and outward from the facility.  

  The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, will on Tuesday meet with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu; leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other stakeholders over the lingering industrial action by university lecturers. An invitation letter signed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Dr Yahaya Danzaria, said the meeting was to find ways of resolving the over seven-month-old strike amicably.

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has declared support for the protest embarked upon by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Lagos.      

The agents argued that the NAC levy is mostly meant for new vehicles, questioning the rationale behind the introduction of the duty on used vehicles.