The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has assured its customers that  every household under its franchise will be supplied with the free digital prepaid meter in due course. Dr Ademola Adewumi, IBEDC’s Regional Head, Ogun, gave the assurance on Thursday, at a public sensitisation programme on the ongoing National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) held in […]

Three students were confirmed dead while three others were injured in an auto crash that occurred along Oba-Ile road in the Akure North council area of Ondo state.

FORMER Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, Thursday, faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on restructuring, insisting that restructuring is the only way to save Nigeria.

More than two million Nigerians have received the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency declared in Abuja on Thursday. Its Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib, told newsmen that 2,099,568 people have been vaccinated with their first doses, while 1,005,234 have received their second doses of the vaccine as […]

 Nigeria’s local rice production increased from two million tonnes in 2015 to nine million tonnes in 2021. Making the declaration in Kaduna on Thursday, Aminu Goronyo, President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) said with the current production rate, Nigeria was poised to become a rice exporting country. “Before the coming of the President Muhammadu […]