Ekohot Editor 
The Lagos State Government has flagged off the construction of the ten-lane Lagos-Badagry Expressway, 10 years after it was conceptualised by former governor, Babatunde Fashola. Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, in a statement by his Director, Public Affairs, Biola Fagunwa, stated that the return to the road will bring life to the axis … Read more
Nobel Laurette, Wole Soyinka says the implementation of ranching or any other initiative to solve the herders/farmers crisis should be done with humanity as a priority. He said this while fielding questions from journalists about the recently proposed Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative, at an event on Tuesday. According to him, the RUGA initiative is … Read more
Four firms which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleged were incorporated for warehousing proceeds of unlawful activities for Mrs. Patience Jonathan have filed a notice of appeal against Monday’s judgment of the Federal High Court in Lagos which ordered the permanent forfeiture of the sums of $8.4m and N9.2bn to the Federal Government. … Read more
Senator Elisha Abbo who is in the eye of a storm for attacking and beating up a woman who tried to prevent him others with him from assaulting another woman has reacted to the scandal, confirming that he is indeed the man in the video. The assault, which was first reported by Premium Times, has … Read more
The operatives of Lagos Rapid Response (RRS), a unit of the Lagos Police Command have arrested a pick up driver who specialize in buying stolen construction materials from site workers in Lekki area of Lagos and reselling them. The suspect, Hassan Abubakar. 32, was arrested while driving a white pick-up van with a registration number … Read more
Residents of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa States capital were greeted with anxiety following the razing of the State-owned radio station on Tuesday morning. The fire, which started on Tuesday morning at about 7:30 am destroyed a critical section Bayelsa Radio, which is located along Azikoro Road in the state capital. Confirming the incident, the Commissioner for … Read more
US President Donald Trump warned Monday that Iran is “playing with fire” after Tehran said it exceeded a limit on enriched uranium reserves under a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by Washington. Israel urged European states to sanction Iran, while Russia voiced regret but said the move was a consequence of US pressure, which has pushed … Read more
The Father-in-law to President Buhari’s ADC, Musa Umar, who was kidnapped in Katsina state two months ago, has regained his freedom. Umar was on his way out of the mosque in Daura, when some men riding in a Peugeot 406 and armed with guns, ambushed him and took him away. Confirming his release, a … Read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says there is no doubt that God Almighty is a Nigerian with the way and manner he has preserved the Nation despite all that she has had to go through. Obasanjo stated this when he spoke at the 9th Toyin Falola Annual International Conference held at Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State. … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday re-arraigned the former Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose in a Federal High Court in Lagos for an alleged fraud of N6.9billion. Recall that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Abdu-Kafarati granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to re-assign the trial … Read more
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has announced the names of the principal officers for the 9th Senate. During plenary this morning, Lawan announced Senator Abdullahi Yahaya as Senate Leader and Ajayi Boroffice as his deputy. He also announced Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe as the Minority Leader and Phillip Aduda as Minority Whip. He said Senator Emmanuel Bwacha will serve as the Deputy … Read more
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says it has so far recovered eight bodies comprising seven males and a female after Saturday’s boat accident at Ikorodu. LASEMA’s Public Affairs Officer Kehinde Adebayo who disclosed this on behalf of the agency’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyetolu, this afternoon, stated that rescue operation was … Read more
A petroleum tanker accident in Ahumbe village along Alliade- Makurdi federal highway in Gwer East Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State, yesterday claimed 60 lives with several others injured. An eyewitness, who identified himself as Austin, said the tanker was carrying fuel from the eastern part of the country, heading to Makurdi when it … Read more
Four policemen, including the DPO, were killed early today by unidentified gunmen, who attacked the Agudama Ekpetiama Police Station, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Two other policemen were also injured, during the attack. The Inspector General of Police, M.A Adamu, has ordered a massive manhunt for the perpetrators of the dastardly act. He said no stone will … Read more
Five whaling ships set sail from Kushiro in Japan for the country’s first commercial hunt since 1986. The ships are allowed to catch up to 227 whales in Japanese waters, after it pulled out of an international whaling moratorium. Shigeto Hase, the Director General of the Japanese Fisheries Agency, said many people had been hoping … Read more
Labour unions in the public service on Monday said they had started mobilising workers against the delay by the Federal Government to implement the new minimum wage signed into law on April 18. The unions, under the aegis of the Trade Union Side (TUS) of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), said in … Read more
Michael de Adder, a Canadian cartoonist has lost his job just two days after his illustration of President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral on social media. Michael de Adder said on Twitter that he had been let go by a publishing company in New Brunswick, Canada. His … Read more
An Islamic cleric in Osun State, Habeebulah Abdulrahman, (popularly known as Al-Edewy), has been accused of raping a 16-year-old female student of his Islamic school. In response, Mr Abdulrahman told Premium Times the teenager is his wife and he had the right to have sexual intercourse with her. The victim, born in 2003, lost her … Read more
The Church of England on Monday urged Christians to think of Jesus when interacting on social media, as it launched a new charter to create a “positive atmosphere” online. Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby visited the British headquarters of Facebook to launch the digital charter, where he urged individuals and churches to pledge to … Read more
Deputy president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Umar Tudunwada, is dead, Igbere TV reports. Igbere TV learnt that the former managing director of Radio Kano and general manager of Freedom Radio died in an accident on Sunday on the Kano-Kaduna road while returning from a meeting of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) … Read more