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The National Economic Council, NEC, said yesterday that its decision on the removal of the subsidy on petroleum would be made in June when provision for its payment in the 2022 budget expires. NEC’s position came on a…
The president, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday in Abuja saluted the Eagles for advancing to the second round of the tournament in grand style. The president…
A Lagos-based lawyer, Tope Alabi, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe and if found culpable, prosecute Ikeja Electric Plc officials over alleged deliberate illegal disconnection and…
The ambition to run for the Osun governorship election has torn Osun’s Adeleke family apart. The members of the family — Senator Ademola Adeleke and Dele Adeleke — have been screened and cleared as aspirants for the…
Ahead of the 2023 elections, members of the National Coalition of Women for Osinbajo have said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is one of the few Nigerian political aspirants who will not turn electoral victory into an…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC has arraigned a serving airman, Lance Corporal Haruna Samuel of the Nigeria Air Force Base, Kaduna on a one-count charge bordering on theft and criminal misappropriation. The…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says evil and destructive forces are after the soul of northern Nigeria. “Even though the soul of the North, and of Nigeria by extension, is being contested by some of the most destructive…
Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has again knocked his cousin, Dele Adeleke, for his Osun State governorship ambition. This time, the singer slammed the politician for writing about the death…
A High Court in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and issue a letter of apology to him. Kanu had approached the…
Former Lagos state governor and frontline presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to party the West African Senior School Certificate Examination fees for…
Lagos State Government, yesterday, introduced a daily consolidated informal transport sector levy of N800 for commercial transporters, besides union dues of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and Road…
The Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, Delta State chapter, Ogheneluemu Sylvester Imonina, has dumped the party. Imonina tendered his resignation in a letter titled ‘Resignation Of My Membership Of All…
Two stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State were on Tuesday evening gruesomely murdered during the invasion and attack of the party’s meeting in Enugu South LGA by gunmen. The gunmen also…
The president, Trade Union Congress, Mr Quadri Olaleye has said that the federal government in the last 10 years wasted about $9.5billion for turnaround maintenance of the moribund refineries. Quadri disclosed this in…
Nigerian musician, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido berates his cousin, Bamidele Adeleke, for declaring his interest to run in the 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election. The Afrobeat musician took to his Twitter…
An argument over two European football clubs – Chelsea and Barcelona – has resulted in the death of a 28-year-old man, Saifullahi Abdullahi, in the Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State. Abdullahi reportedly lost…
Yobe state Governor and Chairman APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, today declared February 26 for the conduct of the APC National Convention. He made the declaration while…
Two men have been arrested by the Osun State Police Command for allegedly stealing a car worth 15 million. The two men, Chinedu Dioha and Joseph Emmanuel who were paraded before newsmen said they stole the vehicle from…
Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja declined to take his plea in the 15-count terrorism charges instituted against him by the Federal…
The Rivers State Police Command has inaugurated a panel to investigate a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) fingered for operating an illegal refinery in Rivers State. This was contained in a statement released on Sunday…
