Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, said he would continue to be a problem to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Mr Peter Obi and governors elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo  The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State and other 19 candidates of the party for the forthcoming local government election in the state have dragged Governor Ademola Adeleke and Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSIEC, before a State High Court over a series of allegations on the proposed poll. The Claimants, […]

“I have always said that if there’s no secession, there wouldn’t be a breakout and there wouldn’t be a question of civil war because it got to the stage that the situation was getting pretty clear that a part of the country wanted to secede”

It was reported that the orderly returned to meet the deceased on the floor gasping for breath.

Tinubu is the most World Bank-compliant president we have ever had—no question about it. His devotion to the World Bank reform orthodoxy is uncritical and total, and he is blinded to the contradiction in the World Bank’s rhetoric on Nigeria.

THE NNPC Limited – Chevron Nigeria Limited Joint Venture (NNPC-CNL JV), yesterday, said it has made a major oil ‘discovery’ at the Meji NW-1 well in Petroleum Mining Lease, PML 49, offshore the Niger Delta.
After a successful drilling, the NNPC-CNL said the well was spudded on September 2, 2024, and the 8,983-ft depth was reached on September 13, 2024.

Two weeks ago, Local Government election was held in Rivers State which was largely peaceful except in one or two places which witnessed violence.

By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Naira today depreciated to N1,725 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,710 per dollar on Thursday. However, the Naira appreciated to N1,600.78 per dollar in the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM fell to N1,600.78 per dollar from N1,660.49 […]

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has approved an increase in the minimum wage for civil servants in the state to N85,000.

GOVERNOR ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, yesterday, charged media practitioners to be transparent in discharging their duties as the watchdog of the society, noting that journalists must hold political office holders accountable in the public’s interest.