archiveAugust 25, 2024

  Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun has appealed to President Bola Tinubu, to beam a searchlight into the activities of Nigerian Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to unravel the root cause of the persistent fuel scarcity in the country. The APC...

  Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, will lead his colleagues from the Southwest, prominent Yoruba leaders, and other relevant stakeholders at the Yoruba National Day lecture scheduled to take place on Monday at the Prof. Wole Soyinka Lecture Theatre, University of Ibadan. Governor Sanwo-Olu, who also serves as the chairman...

The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to clarify how Oando Plc, owned by President Bola Tinubu’s nephew, received accelerated approval to acquire the onshore assets of AGIP and ENI. In a statement released on Thursday, Oando PLC announced the...

Clarify Oando’s quick approval in AGIP/ENI purchase, Atiku tells FG   The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to clarify how Oando Plc, owned by President Bola Tinubu’s nephew, received accelerated approval to acquire the onshore assets of AGIP and...

  The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri, on Sunday, called for the return of the regional system of government in Nigeria. This, he said, would checkmate the current alarming rate of corruption and put the nation at the...

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently listen to calls for a new people-oriented constitution and set modalities in place to achieve it. Anyaoku, a former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday. NAN...

  A Vietnam-bound businessman, Ibeanusi Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Disclosing this an a statement on Sunday, the NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said Nosike was arrested while...

  The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has explained the reasons behind the upward review of fees for obtaining Nigerian passports, effective from 1st September 2024. The fee increase has continued to spark mixed reactions from social media users. Explaining the reasons for the increment on Saturday, the Public Relations Unit...

The Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, has tendered his resignation to President Bola Tinubu. Abubakar disclosed this to State House reporters on Saturday shortly after meeting with the President, saying he discussed with Tinubu who understood with him. On his visit to the Presidential...

Mouka, the market leader in Nigeria’s sleep industry, has partnered with the Lagos Food Bank, a non-profit organization, for its Nutritious Meal Intervention for Vulnerable Mothers and Children (NUMEPLAN) program, an initiative set to improve the lives of these vulnerable groups significantly. Lagos Food Bank is a privately run non-profit...