Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has bemoaned that armed herdsmen attacks have paralyzed and depopulated not less than 21 local government areas in the state.There are 23 local government areas in the state.Thousands of Benue citizens have been slain; nearly 1.5 million people have been displaced; and property and crops worth billions of naira have been destroyed, according to the governor.Governor Ortom, who was represented by the Executive Secretary of the State...

Toll collection at the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge has been postponed by the Lekki Concession Company (LCC).On Friday, LCC Managing-Director director Yomi Omomuwasan acknowledged this in a statement.According to Omomuwasan, the corporation will announce a new date soon.After a gunshot incident during the #EndSARS demonstration in October 2020, LCC halted operations at the tollgate.Following the reinstatement of the toll plaza on April 1, toll collection was set to resum...

Residents of Lekki, Lagos on Friday made good their threat to stage a protest over the multiple hikes in tolls collected at two toll plazas in the area , the News Agency of Nigeria reports. On Feb. 1, the Lekki Concession Company effected a hundred per cent increase in some tolls collected at the Lagos -Ajah highway and the Lekki -Ikoyi Bridge , jolting millions of residents. The convener of the protest, Mr Adedotun Hassan , described the toll hikes as unacceptable...