The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Implementation of the End of Year Transportation Subsidy Programme, Dr. Oladele Alake has described the programme as a huge success, saying that it has benefited over 160,000 passengers across the country. In a progress report on Monday, Alake, who is also the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, said that the programme, which was …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has expressed dismay over the non-inclusion of Kwara State in the Federal Government’s intervention to subsidise the cost of transportation to about 22 states during the Christmas and New Year seasons. In a statement on Saturday by its state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olusegun Adewara, the PDP regretted that despite Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq’s …