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JUST IN: Court dismisses EFCC’s ‘fraud’ suit against Okorocha
A federal capital territory high court in Abuja has dismissed a criminal suit filed by the Economic and…
Subsidy: Give non-cash palliatives to Nigerians, economist urges Tinubu
An economist, Prof Uche Uwaleke, has advised President Bola Tinubu to consider non-cash palliatives instead of cash to ameliorate the effects of subsidy removal faced by Nigerians. Uwaleke, a professor of…
Palliatives: N8,000 per month is an insult on Nigerians — Maritime group
THE Maritime Arbitrators Association of Nigeria, MAAN, stated that the move by the Federal Government to pay 12million poor households N8,000 per household monthly is a far cry from the economic realities adding,…
Tonye Cole Speaks on Wike’s Chances of Becoming Tinubu’s Minister
The governorship candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State in the last general election, Patrick Tonye-Cole, has shared his opinion on who will be appointed as minister from…
Respect court ruling, appoint FCT indigene as minister – Reps tell Tinubu
The house of representatives has asked President Bola Tinubu to appoint an indigene of the federal capital territory (FCT) as minister. The lower legislative chamber passed the resolution during plenary on…
Electricity tariffs raise inevitable, DisCos tell NERC
Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have told the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) that tariffs…
Oil Theft: Shippers, Experts Seek Probe Of Vessel Arrested With Stolen Crude
Stakeholders in the oil industry and security experts have called for a full scale investigation into the interception of a 800,000-litre vessel carrying stolen crude oil while heading to Cameroon. The vessel…
‘Obi now IPOB spokesman’ — Simon Ekpa hits back over sit-at-home comment
Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has responded to a statement made by Peter Obi on the sit-at-home directive in the south-east. The…
Tinubu’s Plan To Hand Out N8,000 To 12 Million Households For 6 Months Is Brazen Attempt To Divert…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has described President Bola Tinubu’s plan to hand out N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as a…
Despite huge revenue, Lagos local councils underperform, worsen residents’ pains
Constitutionally, the local councils are meant to construct and maintain roads, streets, drains, parks,…
Kwara: EFCC Arrests 13 Chinese Over Illegal Mining
Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 13 Chinese over…
Demolition: Kano residents secure court order against Kano gov’t
Residents along BUK road in Gwale Local Government area of Kano State have secured a court order from a Kano State High Court restraining the state government from going ahead with the planned demolition of their…
$800m World Bank Borrowing: NLC, TUC kick, Experts, stakeholders lampoon palliatives plans
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, faulted President Tinubu’s plans, saying it runs contrary to the works of the Presidential Technical Committee on the removal…
2 KFC staff arrested over death of colleague
Two staff members of KFC eatery on 23 Road, Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, have been arrested over the death of a 20-year-old colleague last Friday. Relatives and friends of the deceased, Anita…
Max Air incident: NCAA to investigate fuel suppliers, threatens withdrawal of licenses
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it would investigate aviation fuel suppliers in the country’s aviation industry to determine the source of fuel contamination in Max Air aircraft Boeing 737-300.…
Private vehicles owners turn to cab business on petrol price hike
In the wake of fuel subsidy removal, private car owners in Africa’s largest economy are increasingly turning their vehicles to car…
Nnamdi Kanu: IPOB to declare two-week sit-at-home in Lagos, says Simon Ekpa
Factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has announced plans to declare a sit-at-home in Lagos State to demand the release of Nnamdi Kanu. Ekpa late Wednesday night tweeted that IPOB…
Allegation of plot to prevent Ladoja from becoming Olubadan, unfounded’ – Advisory Council
The Olubadan Advisory Council has described as unfounded and erroneous, the allegation by the former governor of Oyo State and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja that the reigning Olubadan…
Simon Ekpa Is A Notorious Terrorist Making A Living In Finland, Ordering People To Shut Down…
The Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has described Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Nnamdi Kanu’s disciple and Prime Minister of Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), as a notorious terrorist hiding…
Nigeria’s crude oil production rises to 1.48mbpd in June
The National Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) reported that Nigeria’s crude oil production came in at 1.48mbpd in June 2023 (inclusive of 55,088bpd and 176,030bpd of its blended and unblended…
Anambra will not obey sit-at-home orders – Soludo
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra state has vowed that the state and its residents will not obey any illegal sit-at-home orders. Soludo stated this following the state government’s directive that, henceforth,…
Provision of stomach infrastructure surest way to tackle insecurity – Peter Obi
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has described provision of stomach infrastructure as the surest way to tackle insecurity in Nigeria. Obi stated this in a statement via his verified…
BREAKING: DSS charges Emefiele to court
The Department of Security Services (DSS) says it has charged Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to court. In a statement on Thursday, Peter Afunanya, spokesperson of the…
BREAKING: Tinubu declares state of emergency on food security, orders release of grains to…
President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency on food security. Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on special duties, communications and strategy, made the disclosure to state house…