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NRC says Lagos-Ibadan railway construction moving ahead of schedule

The Nigerian Railway Corporation on Thursday said construction work on the over $1.5bn Lagos-Ibadan railway project was moving ahead of the scheduled time for its completion.It also stated that concerns in some quarters that funding might have slowed work on the project were not necessary, as funds meant for the construction of the railway

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Gbemi Saraki says AbdulRazaq using security agencies to settle political scores

The Minister of State for Transportation, Mrs Gbemisola Saraki, has condemned the demolition of the building belonging to her late father, Olusola Saraki, by the Kwara State Government.Gbemisola, who belongs to the same party, the All Progressives Congress, with the state Governor, AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman, accused him of using security agencies to settle family political

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Donald Trump says killing of Qassim Soleimani was to ‘stop a war’ with Iran

Donald Trump said he was not seeking a war with Iran, or "regime change," after assassinating the country's top general in an audacious drone strike.The US president said he had acted to prevent a plot against America by General Qassim Soleimani, who he called a "sick monster"and "the number one terrorist anywhere in the

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Police exhume body female LASU student, suspects give gory details

Suspected killers of Miss Favour Daley-Oladele on Saturday narrated the gory details of how the  final year Sociology student of Lagos State University (LASU) was gruesomely murdered for money rituals at Ikoyi-Ile in Osun.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three principal suspects gave the gory details after Osun homicide police detectives

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