Presidency, Atiku bicker over subsidy removal
ABUJA---Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared that no amount of resistance from President Bola Tinubu or “millions of his gang of economic jesters” could stop him from restoring a targeted fuel subsidy to Nigerians, accusing the administration of dressing up subsidy removal as reform while quietly extending fiscal concessions to oil investors.
WORLD AIDS DAY: How we can end AIDS epidemic, by WHO
As the world yesterday marked the 2015 World AIDS Day, World Health Organisation, WHO, has said that the only key to ending the AIDS epidemic within a generation remains the expansion of Antiretroviral Therapy, ART, to all people living with HIV.
BAYELSA: Nostalgia versus reality
The choice of former Governor Timipre Sylva as the APC’s gubernatorial candidate for the off-season election in Bayelsa State this weekend has injected a dramatic dimension of nostalgic fantasy versus political realism into the contest.
Fulani herdsmen kill palmwine tapper, injure one other in Delta
OLEH— A-30-year-old palmwine tapper was, yesterday, killed and one other severely injured by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Ofagbe community, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State.
Rivers PDP to APC: Stop playing politics with the dead
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State has appealed to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state not to play politics with the dead.
INEC delivers 52,000 Supplementary Voter Cards
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday reiterated its preparedness to conduct a free, fair and credible governorship election in Bayelsa State this Saturday.
Dickson, Sylva, Siasia in debate duel
The three leading candidates in this weekend’s election, Serikae Dickson, PDP, Timipere Sylva, APC and Moses Siasia, PDM are to confront one another this afternoon in a live television debate.
FG to privatise pipelines network —Kachikwu
LAGOS—Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday said that the Federal Government is set to privatise the petroleum products pipeline network in the country to minimise the issue of perennial vandalism…
Workers shut down Owerri
Imo workers, yesterday, shut down the state to protest non-payment of arrears of their salaries and allowances by the state government.
Security man remanded for sodomy with 15-year-old boy
Lagos— Magistrate O. A Ogunbowale of an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State has remanded a 45-year-old security man, Musa Mohammed in prison custody over alleged rape of a 15-year-old boy.
Wife of detainee loses pregnancy after torture by Police
ABEOKUTA — A 37-year-old woman, Risikat Bamidele, is currently receiving treatment at the Ogun State Hospital, Ijaiye after policemen allegedly tortured her on Saturday for making phone call at a police station.
