Nigeria’s LPG consumption hits 1,000,000MT yearly ― NLPGA
By Udeme Akpan The nation’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, consumption has risen to 1,000,000 metric tonnes, MT from 500,000MT, yearly, due mainly to increased demand. The National President, Nigeria LPG Association, Mr. Nuhu Yakubu, said: “The industry has recorded a quantum leap in the number of LPG operators across the entire supply, demand, and distribution […]
Power equilibrium: Russia, China and the US
By Patrick Dele Cole All three countries are growing incredibly richer and more powerful. Considerable success in the arms race, technological development such as internet, artificial intelligence, space. Going to Mars will soon be as common as man going to toilet. Environmental decision common to all who also share a certain skepticism that this does […]
Rivers communities abandon farms as cows graze on crops
DAYS after the killing of 26-year-old Nonye Nwa-Omoku in Egbeda, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State by suspected herdsmen, Gbo Kabaari Ogoni (Ogoni Elders’ Forum) has raised the alarm over more herders’ threats to that area of the state.
N84bn Alleged Misappropriation at NSITF: They stole the place dry, says Senate
THE Senate said, on Monday, that about N84 billion was mismanaged by the management of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, within four years.
Let’s build a new Nigeria – PFN President
…as PFN Lagos launches 200 million project By Olayinka Latona THE National President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Bishop Francis Wale Oke has called on Christians to arise and fight for a new Nigeria on their knees. Asking Christians to brace up and perform their statutory responsibilities for a new era in Nigeria, Bishop […]
President Buhari and the burden of the dot nation
Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe, the Senate Minority Leader, is a politician of Ndigbo extraction who do not mind giving all he has in the defence of the Igbo. Last week he proudly donned a T-shirt branded THE DOT NATION, in apparent reaction to the derisive description of the South East by President Muhammadu Buhari as a dot in a circle on the Nigerian map.
Anambra 2021: Why APC delegates chose me — Andy Uba
SENATOR Andy Uba, who won the controversial primaries of All progressives Congress, APC, for the November 6 Anambra State governorship election is already looking beyond the exercise as he calls on his other 13 co-aspirants who lost the primary to support him to enable the party win the November election.
Trader docked for using fake N1, 000 to buy suya
A 28-year-old trader, Pious Amos, on Monday appeared in an Upper Area Court, Zuba, Abuja, for allegedly using fake N1,000 to buy suya
Gov Wike: Facts versus propaganda
Penultimate week, on June 19, a respected Nigerian columnist published information he gathered from field visits, agents and officials of the government of my home State, Rivers. Let me lay down the marker from the onset that several citizens and stakeholders in the state expressed concern over what they read since it is in complete contrast with their individual and collective experiences
Fresh revenue allocation formula ready before year-end— RMAFC
THE Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has revealed that a new Revenue Allocation Formula among the three tiers of government (federal, states and local governments) would be ready before the end of the year.
World not ready for 240 million migrants if Nigeria implodes, UN warns
The United Nations has warned youths not to work against the interest of the country, saying the world won’t be able to accommodate 240 million Nigerians should the country implode.
Nasarawa Assembly passes 4 executive bills
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed four executive bills to bring speedy development to the state. Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Speaker of the assembly, announced the passage of the bills after the Leader of the Assembly, Alhaji Tanko Tunga, moved the motion for their unanimous passage during plenary on Monday in Lafia. The […]
Anambra gubernatorial primary: Secondus chairs PDP Appeal Panel
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has constituted an appeal panel on its just concluded primary for Anambra governorship election
Who said the Igbo hate Tinubu?
By Eze Chikwelu THERE is a popular notion that the Igbo people, collectively, hold some sort of grudge against the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This conception is almost laughable because it shows a contempt for the intellectual capacity of the average Igbo and a lack of awareness […]
Oborevwori mourns Kenneth Ogba
SPEAKER of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, Monday, expressed shock over the sudden demise of the member representing Isoko South 1 Constituency in the House, Hon Kenneth Ogba.
Former APGA National Secretary joins APC with Matawalle
The Former National Secretary of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr. Sani Shinkafi, says he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to support Gov. Bello Matawalle to rebuild Zamfara. Shinkafi who was the APGA governorship candidate at the 2019 general elections in Zamfara, disclosed this at a news conference in Gusau on […]
