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April 25, 2024 The Lagos State Government disclosed that Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras captured 850,000 traffic violations over a 15-month period. These cameras, totaling 53 in number, are strategically installed across various locations in the state to conduct routine monitoring checks. During the 2024 Ministerial Press Briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa – Ikeja, Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Oluwaseun Osiyemi, highlighted the efficiency of the Traffic Management Solution (TMS) device. He noted that in the last three months alone, the TMS successfully recorded 26,816 real-time traffic infringements, significantly enhancing traffic enforcement. Mr. Osiyemi emphasized the broader scope of the ANPR system, which not only captures violations related to prescribed particulars but also detects offenses like vehicles moving against traffic flow. From January 2023 to March 2024, the ANPR cameras recorded a total of 856,680 violation...

  Dr Bukola Saraki supporters Take To Social Media To Reveal 99 Things Saraki Did While In Office As Governor  This is the season of political grandstanding and records-checking by politicians and Nigerian electorates alike in preparation for 2023 elections. This is to learn from past mistakes of electing the wrong leaders to positions of authority. The appearance on Twitter spaces by  Dr. Bukola Saraki a former president of the Nigerian senate and a presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2023 General elections, made Nigerians take to various social media platforms to reveal things done by Saraki while he was in office as Governor.  POWER 1. Kwara State under Saraki was the first state to complete the Nigeria Independent Power Project (NIPP) by re-energizing the Ganmo Power Station in Ilorin. The power station generated only 90 MVA but after the reconstruction in collaboration with the Federal Government, the power generation capacity of the sub-station increase...

  Black out worsens as national grid collapse twice within 48 hours. Some states were thrown  into darkness sequel to disruption of power supply from the collapse. Eko Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the collapse in a public notice that read thus; "Dear esteemed Customers,  we would like to inform you of another system collapse on the national grid which occurred at 5:10 p.m on (Tuesday) Before the collapse, Nigerians barely enjoyed 15 hours of light per day. Many places enjoy less than 5 hours.  How long will this continue despite many promises made by APC led government before taking over power from the PDP?  Kind pend down your view on what you think about this article and the likely solution to this national problem. 

T he Brazilian government has given Yoruba a pride of place among foreign languages spoken in the country. NewsmakersNG was told in an exclusive interview with the Brazilian minister of culture, Dr Sérgio Sá leitão at the weekend in Brazil that the government has introduced the compulsory study of African History and Yoruba language into the primary and secondary schools curriculum. The minister spoke at an event where the Institute of African Studies, University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil paraded important dignitaries including Nigerian artists and historians, as well as professors of arts and African studies at a lecture on the importance of Yoruba language in the Brazilian culture and tradition. According to him, the inclusion of African History and Yoruba Language in the curriculum would help bring the closeness of the African Brazilian people to their roots and thus encourage the understandings of the language among other important languages in Brazil apart from Portuguese which is t...

PROF CHARLES SOLUDO OF APGA DECLARED WINNER OF ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION The formal CBN Governor, Prof Charles Soludo Wins Anambra Governorship Election defeating his closest rivals from PDP and APC with a wide marging.  He defeated Ozigbo of PDP who scored 53,807 votes and that of APC, Andy Uba who scored 43,285. Soludo defeated them with 112, 229 votes What's your view about this election?

  By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esq. When Nnamdi Kanu took up the campaign for actualization of Biafra from his former boss, Raph Uwazurike, many reasonable and farsighted Igbo adults were worried. I was one of those who entertained fear.  The fear was that this highly vocal, but poorly informed, Igbo man was going to unleash forces and factors he will not be able to control and the Igbos will suffer badly for his miscalculations.  He was going to unleash the mythical force of Biafra as no other person had done since Ojukwu, and those forces would end up, again, consuming those it claimed to be protecting. Ojukwu’s Biafran gambit led to the death of approximately three million Biafrans. You may now wonder what was the gain or purpose of that war if it killed 7% of the people it came to protect and held the Igbos back for 50 years.  But regret or lamentation is not the purpose of this piece. It should be more forward looking. However, we must not ignore the aphorism by the Spani...

  The government of Kwara State appeals for calm while the committee set up does its works and submits a report for further action. The Kwara State government has suspended the head of Musbaudeen Islamiya Arabic school in Ganmo, Ifelodun local government area of the state for ordering the brutal flogging of five students, including a female student for allegedly attending a birthday party in a clubhouse. Alfa Musbaudeen ordered 4 boys to flog a girl in the viral video. This was made known in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu. The statement also confirmed the parents of the affected students confessed that they consented to the flogging of their children.  According to the statement, the government has set up a panel to investigate the incident while the affected students have been taken to the hospital for medical attention. She also noted that the school principal has been asked to step aside, while...