Subsidy: Queues grow longer amid uncertainty over take-off date
Queues at petrol stations in Abuja grew longer yesterday as consumers continued their effort to obtain the product at old pump price, even as confusion over the take-off date of the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry persisted.
Fasoranti to Tinubu: No excuse for failure
FORMER Leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, yesterday, warned President Bola Tinubu that Nigerians would not take any excuse for failure.
Immigration CG to open more passport offices in Lagos
Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service NIS, Caroline Adepoju, yesterday, said the service would open more passport front offices in the Lagos area, to curb unnecessary delays in passport processing and issuance.
Honouring our peace keepers
IN today’s turbulent world, it’s more important than ever to have people willing to put their lives on the line to keep others safe. Monday, May 29, 2023 marked this year’s International Day of United Nation’s Peace Keepers, set aside to celebrate these heroes and heroines, especially those of them who have paid the supreme […]
NGE, PANDEF, Oborevwori, Igbinedion, Mark, Nnamani, Oshiomhole, Shaibu, Owie, Edo NUJ mourn Dokpesi
The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, led by the South-South leader, Edwin Clark, and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, have described the death of the founder of African Independent Television, AIT/Raypower, Raymond Dokpesi, as sad, shocking and painful.
Ways by which we can strengthen our democracy
By CHIEDU OKOYE NIGERIA, as a country, has not got it right politically. And that is the chief reason our country is still trapped in the morass of economic and technological backwardness. Is there not a nexus between the quality of political leadership obtainable in a country and that country’s level of national development? The […]
