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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Friday condoled with Dr Hezekiah Oyedepo over the death of his wife and General Manager of the National Theatre, Dr Stella Oyedepo. This was as the minister led top management officials of the ministry to the family house of the Oyedepos in Ilorin to condole with the family. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Ms Grace Gekpe, as well as Directors and Special Advisers to the minister were in the delegation. Mohammed described the death of the National Theatre boss as “sad and shocking,” adding that the entire ministry had lost a great administrator in her. He said the deceased was a great enthusiast of culture who left good footprints on the sands of time and beyond the shores of Nigeria. “I am here with the top management of the ministry to condole with you on the tragic and sad loss of one of the CEOs of one of our parastatals, the National Theatre. “The late...

Here is a video of a drunk Nigeria Police officer sleeping comfortably on a road. The road was flooded. Obviously he did not know where he was. He just lied down there in his police uniform. That means he's supposed to be on duty. Trust Nigerians, they surrounded him and were snapping and covering the incident. One even blamed President Buhari for the police man's irresponsibility as if it was Buhari that sent him to go and get drunk. Watch the video below

The Observers Times - Abuja Kogi govt owing workers 38 months salaries – NLC Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday said it was sad that in spite of the over N200 billion so far collected as monthly allocations and several bailouts and loan collected, Kogi State government is still owing workers between 8 – 38 months salary arrears. NLC said owing to this development, workers in the state had been acutely battered and reduced to mere skeleton walking the street without hope or succour. The NLC chairman made this declaration in Lokoja during the 7thQuadrennial State Congress held at the Kafas Multipurpose hall. The oganised labour said due to the non-payment of salaries, the workers had been turned to beggars with some suffering from various ailments which had resulted in several deaths . The worst hit among the workers, NLC said was the local government staff some of who were owed over 52 months salaries arrears while those paid were paid in miserable percentages while some pensioner...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Friday condoled with Dr Hezekiah Oyedepo over the death of his wife and General Manager of the National Theatre, Dr Stella Oyedepo. This was as the minister led top management officials of the ministry to the family house of the Oyedepos in Ilorin to condole with the family. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Ms Grace Gekpe, as well as Directors and Special Advisers to the minister were in the delegation. Mohammed described the death of the National Theatre boss as “sad and shocking,” adding that the entire ministry had lost a great administrator in her. He said the deceased was a great enthusiast of culture who left good footprints on the sands of time and beyond the shores of Nigeria. “I am here with the top management of the ministry to condole with you on the tragic and sad loss of one of the CEOs of one of our parastatals, the National Theatre. “The late Dr Stella O...

“Kogi State 4 sale soon as Yahaya Bello has concluded plans to borrow 32billion naira from Sterling Bank. If Sterling Bank make the mistake of giving Akotileta this money. We will go to court bc there is no compliance with our extant laws. The Bank should expect massive protest," Melaye tweeted.