Tokunbo Wahab is the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources.
Tokunbo Wahab @tokunbo_wahab
Earlier today, I, the Honourable Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi @seun_osiyemi, the SA on Transportation @Sola_Giwa, the SA on the Environment, Olakunle Rotimi Akodu @rotimi_akodu, PS ODS, Engr. Mahmood Adegbite @mogbite and other stakeholders visited the Oba...
Amnesty International urged Antananarivo to drop the proposed law, saying it would not resolve the problem of paedophilia.
Madagascar’s justice minister defended a new bill Friday to castrate child rapists, with the measure deemed “cruel, inhuman and degrading” by Amnesty International.
The upper house Senate approved the measure permitting chemical and surgical castration Wednesday after it...
ONDO STATE HAS CLEARED SALARY ARREARS.
I wrongly stated that Ondo was still owing salaries on ChannelsTV this morning. That is old information.
Governor Aiyedatiwa informed me this morning that he cleared the remaining one month and is even paying the extra N35,000 top up to civil servants as directed.
Late Governor Akeredolu cleared the 5 out of 6 months arrears left by Former Governor M...
BREAKING: Ex-President Jonathan's Former Aide, Ojuogboh Dies Watching Super Eagles Against South Africa
February 8, 2024
Cairo Ojougboh, a former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has reportedly died, SaharaReporters has learnt.
A family source confirmed the death to SaharaReporters and added that his corpse had been taken to the mo...
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, says Buckingham Palace.
It is not prostate cancer, but was discovered during his recent treatment for an enlarged prostate.
The type of cancer has not been revealed, but the palace said the King began "regular treatments" on Monday.
Buckingham Palace says the King "remains wholly positive about his treatment". He will postpone his pub...
The Accountant General of the Federation has said federal workers will start receiving their January salaries from Thursday evening (today), attributing the delay to a glitch from the Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMIS) platform.
There have been rising concerns over delay in the payment of January salaries of federal workers. The delay was blamed on the non-conclusion of...
More relief to come for millions of Lagos residents in weeks ahead as Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu reiterated his administration’s commitment to the completion of the second phase of the blue line rail project and flag off the commercial operation of the red project.
He said the red line rail service, when inaugurated in a few weeks, would further ease vehicular traffic congesti...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has revealed that Prof Ishaq Oloyede is the first Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board to have made over N50bn for the Federal Government within a year.
The Vice President, who represented President Bola Tinubu, disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking during a public engagement organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Th...
A suspected Malian miner in Ibadan, Oyo State, Sawane Youssouf, on Wednesday, said he neither owned nor rented the house where an explosion was recorded on January 16.
Youssouf is believed to be the owner of the building where the explosion that killed five people, injured 77 persons and damaged 58 houses at Adeyi, Old Bodiji in Ibadan occurred.
The state governor, Seyi Makinde, while giving...
will do a single term in office if I win the election. I don’t need more than four years do develop the state.”
The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has indicated interest to contest the state’s governorship position in 2025.
Ubah who stated this in a chat with journalists in his Nnewi country home on Sunday evening scored the incumbent governor,...
The Lagos State Government on Sunday gave a five days quit notice to different squatters under the Ijora Causeway bridge and Lagos Blue rail Line over head bridge in Ijora to remove all their shanties for constituting a danger to the Lagos Blue Line corridor or risk demolition and removal.
The quit notice was given by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources Tokunbo Wahab when h...
LGBTQ members in Nigeria joined a trending challenge: "Chronicles of rainbow", with many X users calling for police action.
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UNNATURAL OFFENCES, SAME SEX MARRIAGE ILLEGAL IN NIGERIA
As NPF Orders Arrest of Culprits, Charges Well-Meaning Nigerians on Prote...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that the FCT Administration is putting structures in place that would ensure that only registered taxis painted in Abuja colours are allowed to operate in the FCT.
Wike stated this on Wednesday during a meeting with traditional rulers and area council chairmen in Abuja.
He said: “Very soon, we are going to roll ou...
President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to join hands to fix the country and have a change of mindset towards money.
Tinubu spoke on Monday when he received a delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) led by its president Archbishop Daniel Okoh at the State House in Abuja, asking the body to help in preaching against corruption and related matters.
“We have no other country...
The Lagos State Government has warned against indiscriminate handling and storage of combustible items.
In a joint statement issued by the Honourable Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Olugbenga Oyerinde and Director General Safety Commission, Mr Lanre Mojola at the weekend affirmed the commitment of Babajide Sanwo-olu's administration to safety of lives and pr...