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Lagos Commences Cashless Toll Payment Along Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge
The Lagos State Government has commenced the cashless policy for the payment of toll at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge toll plaza.
Recall that Lagos State government had last year announced that it would integrate the cashless policy for toll payment at the Lekki/Ikoyi toll plaza from 1st January 2020 because of the huge traffic usually experienced due to cash payment.
Frederic Oladeinde, Lagos State Commissioner for transport who monitored the exercise at the toll plaza this Thursday 2nd January in the company of the MD, Lekki Concession Company Limited, Yomi Omomuwasan said the new policy was targeted at reducing traffic queue often experienced while making cash payment. He said this will reduce travel time and ease traffic movement along the corridor.
The commissioner said that the new cashless toll payment has brought improvement on movement at the toll plaza compared with the former method. He also noted that there is a need to educate residents to imbibe the new system by complying to enjoy its advantage on the free flow of traffic.
He, however, frowned at some motorists who wanted to deliberately sabotage the new policy for their selfish gain, revealing that some road users made photocopies of their payment vouchers for several uses. He, therefore, warned that the government would not hesitate to use the law on any motorists who attempt to truncate its effort at improving the free flow of traffic.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
