It is unclear if his resignation had anything to do with the seven-storey building which collapsed in the state on Sunday. The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, has resigned. Gbenga Omotosho, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, disclosed this in a Twitter post on Monday. The news of his resignation […]
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The Obi-Datti movement, the campaign group for Labour Party presidential ticket Peter Obi has dismissed claims that the candidate violated the Electoral Act on account of raising funds from Nigerians in the diaspora for the campaigns. The Obi-Datti Media Office was reacting to an allegation by a support group of Tinubu-Shettima calling on the Independent […]
Mr Nwosu also said the party’s presidential candidate, Dumebi Kachikwu, was suspended because all efforts and consultations to get him to stir up his campaign arrangements, were futile. The embattled National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Ralph Nwosu, has denied the claim that he has exhausted his two terms of eight years each, […]
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has cautioned the Lagos State government not to usurp the powers conferred on local governments to fix and collect parking fees in the state, stressing that it remains the constitutional responsibility of the local governments to collect such levies. In a letter written to the Attorney-General & Commissioner for […]
A former Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has urged Nigerians to prepare for the immediate impact of the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), disclosing that it will decrease revenue to states and local governments by 15 per cent in the short term. Speaking on the topic “Energy Transitions, Revenue Challenges […]
In response to the alleged inflation of petrol imports and consumption in Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has insisted that average petrol supply in the country stands at 68 million litres per day. The company also disclosed that the total volume of petrol imported into the country between January and August 2022, […]
Ahead of the official commencement of the 2023 general election campaign by political parties this month, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said September brings Nigerians good tidings of the beginning of the march to freedom from the throttlehold of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Atiku declared this in a […]
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, yesterday disclosed that the federal government has finally resolved the long-standing contractual dispute over the Ajaokuta Steel in Kogi. The dispute which had been at the International Court of Arbitration, Paris, since 2008, was finally resolved last month, according to the […]
“The younger brother of the slain NSCDC officer appealed to us from the kidnappers’ den that we should do something urgently for their release, that the way they are being tortured is unbearable.” Gunmen who killed an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Segun Ayebulu, and kidnapped three other persons on […]
The agency says it had earlier impounded 20 vehicles for illegal parking. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said it had impounded 19 vehicles over indiscriminate and illegal parking at garages and parks in Lagos Island. The General Manager of LASTMA, Bolaji Oreagba, said this in a statement through the Director, Public Affairs Unit […]
NDLEA says it traced several properties to Abba Kyari and some of his siblings in Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has filed fresh charges against Abba Kyari, a suspended deputy commissioner of police and former head of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT). Mr Kyari is […]
MINISTER of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola among other personalities are expected to speak on 2023 elections and the future of Nigeria’s democracy at the 2022 edition of TheNiche Annual Lecture, scheduled for Thursday, September 8. The lecture, an annual intellectual fiesta, which is aimed at proffering solutions to some of Nigeria’s most daunting problems, […]
STRONG indications emerged yesterday that the Senate is seeking an amendment to section 84 of the 2022 Electoral Act geared towards preventing same faith ticket of either Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian for President and Vice President of Nigeria by any political party after the 2023 general election. Addressing journalists yesterday in Abuja, Senator Smart Adeyemi, All […]
Abuja — The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited, has offered to submit itself for forensic audit of fuel supply and subsidy management, insisting that daily fuel supply remained 68 million. In a statement by Mallam Garba Deen Muhammad, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, said between January and August 2022, “the total […]
DESPITE increasing airfares by over 100 per cent, domestic airline operators are still groaning under the weight of high cost of aviation fuel, also known as Jet Al. The problem has escalated, as they are currently witnessing massive drop in passenger traffic across the major airports in the country. The domestic airlines include Arik Air, […]
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has decried Nigeria’s continued importation of petroleum products despite being one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world. The governor made the submission while speaking with journalists at Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State, at the 10-year remembrance service of Pa Jeremiah […]
The Federal Government has, through mediation, settled a long-standing contractual dispute with a foreign investor group in the steel industry, by securing a reduction of the total money in contention from $5.258 billion to $496 million, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has revealed. Malami in a statement […]
…Police confirm 11, say 2 victims rescued No fewer than 32 passengers returning from a burial ceremony in Benin, Edo State were reportedly abducted along Owo/Benin highway, weekend. But, the state police command said 11 people were abducted and that it rescued two of the victims. Vanguard gathered that the kidnappers waylaid a convoy of […]