PRESIDENT of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, yesterday said that the National Assembly will always follow due diligence in approving loan requests of the Executive arm of government.

The leadership of the Women Wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos State Chapter in its recent emergency state executive committee meeting had expressed dismay and disgust over the killings, alarming state of insecurity and threat to lives in the South-East, and therefore calls on the government of the day to arrest the ugly situation before it […]

Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State has described the recent abduction of school children in Kebbi as a danger signal to security in the North-West region. El-Rufai made the statement on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi when he paid a sympathy visit on Gov. Atiku Bagudu. He said it was saddening that the criminality that plagued […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with the national executive and leaders of the Ijaw Nation Congress, INC, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Stories by Moses Nosike In 2018, when Chief Solomon Ogbonna Aguene emerged as President, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos, a lot of people believed he would toe the normal way of his predecessors. But today he has changed the narrative. The present Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos has gained more popularity both home and abroad under the leadership of […]

By Obas Esiedesa – Abuja The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Kyari, has disclosed the federal government spends as much as N140 billion to N150 billion to subsidise premium motor spirit, petrol, monthly. According to Kyari, the open price of petrol, has risen to N256 per litre. With the […]

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 […]

Delta Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday said he would not be distracted by attempts by some highly placed members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to pitch him against his predecessors. Speaking while receiving hundreds of members of opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, who defected to the […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi A Makurdi Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs Franca Yua has granted bail to a popular Benue businessman and Chief Executive Officer of TAP Group, Mr Terwase Paul and one Mson Yaasa in the alleged case of criminal conspiracy and threat to hostage-taking. The duo were arrested in Makurdi […]

It was a cheeful and friendly atmosphere as the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Zone ‘A’ Headquarters, Lagos recently decorated its newly promoted officers. The exercise was in order, sequel to the release of the 2020 promotion by the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Correctional Service Board (CDFICB). READ ALSO:Danger alert: Residents panic […]

By Obas Esiedesa – Abuja The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mele Kyari, has disclosed the open price of premium motor spirit, petrol, has risen to N256 per litre. With the present pump price of petrol pegged at N162 per litre, it means the government is subsidizing the product by […]