Reports

Internet hackers have attacked Pointblanknews.com corrupting several thousands of the news website files and its wordpress with malwares. The news website has been down since last week Thursday because it wordpress admin has been compromised and news stories cannot be uploaded. Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of Pointblanknews.com, Mr. Jackson Ude said Technicians from it host organization […]

Lagos State Government has recorded a cumulative mid-year budget performance of 86 percent, despite a big drop in its receipt from federal transfer. This is a major feat, the government said on Tuesday. Lagos State, which budgeted N489.69 billion for 2014 performed 76 percent in the first quarter and 106 percent in the second quarter […]

Says PDP Legislators Are Lawless A group known as the Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa on Tuesday said the continual disobedience to Court orders and rulings by the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators should not be overlooked or wished away. In a statement signed by coalition representative, John Mayaki, […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola on Monday set up and inaugurated a three-man Tribunal of Enquiry to investigate the clash between men of the Armed Forces and the driver of a Bus Rapid Transit scheme along Ikorodu Road in which a soldier lost his life and the subsequent arson and destruction of BRT buses. Charging the Tribunal […]

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has advised politicians to shun all forms of violence and refrain from luring youths into thuggery. Governor Ahmed, who gave the advice at the Ansarul Islam Society Ramadan Lecture held at Ansarul Islam Primary School, Okekere, Ilorin, stressed that politicians must realise that power radiates only from God and […]

The Chairman of the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Segun Raheem has expressed confidence in the willingness of the state government to address the issue of the 27.5 percent balance payment of the Teachers’ Specific Allowances. Fielding questions from newsmen on Thursday, Raheem said the teachers in the state were not […]

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday approved six months maternity leave for every female worker who gives birth to a baby while in the state’s civil service. However, the elongated leave term applies only for the first two deliveries, after which the female civil servant would return to the usual three months maternity leave […]

If there is one thing that the opposition politicians and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have perfected, it must be the skills for propaganda and public deception.  They have become experts in acting the aggressor and victim all at once.  Like the proverbial mischief-maker, they would go into the bush with a […]

The Lagos State University branch of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has called off its six weeks old industrial action and has expressed their decision to resume work.   The lecturers had been on strike since 20th May but in a letter to the university’s Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, signed by the […]

The Lagos State Government on Monday commemorated the annual tree planting exercise in the state with Governor Babatunde Fashola stating that a new economy has emerged from nothing through the tree planting initiative which has created over 69,000 new jobs. Speaking at the Tree planting exercise with the theme, “Life is better with Trees”, which […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has for the second time in a week, visited the Apapa area of the state to monitor progress in the state government’s efforts to address the problem of traffic gridlock in the area, calling on the federal government to do everything to restore the dignity of the area. Fashola, […]

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, on Monday denied sponsoring an opinion which accused Governor Babatunde Fashola, and former Lagos Commissioner for the Environment, Muiz Banire, of doing everything to ensure his political downfall. The opinion, entitled ‘My Ordeal In The Hands Of Dr. Muiz Banire’, had detailed a […]