archiveSeptember 4, 2024

  The Lagos State Taskforce on Tuesday conducted a sweeping operation from Fadeyi down to Maryland and Charity Bus Stop to Airport Road where six suspects involved in the illegal sale and display of petroleum products were apprehended, hawking petrol to motorists at exorbitant rates, exacerbating the already intense situation...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has once again secured the top position in business efficiency and transparency among ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs), according to the latest evaluation by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC). In the '2024 Half Year Transparency and Efficiency Compliance Report (January...

The Presidency has slammed the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero, for saying that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu betrayed labour leaders by increasing the petrol pump price. Ajaero had alleged that labour accepted the N70,000 national minimum wage based on an understanding that the pump price of...

  The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, stated yesterday that Nigeria’s tax collection rates are low, pointing out that this poses a challenge to financing critical sectors like health and education. Gates made these remarks during Nutrivision 2024, a Pan-African youth dialogue on nutrition held...

Following the announcement by the NNPCL retail management of upward review of PMS pump price from N617 to N897, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has slammed the Federal Government, describing the increase as traumatic, nightmarish and an act of betrayal. The NLC expressed sadness and disappointment that barely a month...

The 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said the President Bola Tinubu-led administration should come clean on what is happening in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). Obi, who lamented the fuel scarcity, price hike and opaque financial books of the NNPCL, said Nigerians demand a...

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Wednesday sent a notification of a planned massive shutdown of all major cities in Nigeria, effective September 15, 2024. The student body said the protest is in response to the recent fuel price hike and the perceived incompetence of the NNPC Director...

Justice Dehinde I. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Ikpaka Courage to two years imprisonment for presenting himself as Chinedu Okoli, also known as Flavour, a Nigerian singer, to dupe a United States of America citizen, Mrs....

  approves draft Procurement (Amendment) Bill   Towards the conclusion of the teachers’ recruitment exercise, the Osun State Executive Council has directed the Ministry of Education to conduct interviews for applicants within the cut-off range adopted after the recruitment test. The Council presided over by Governor Ademola Adeleke gave the...

A former Minister for Power and Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) scheduled for October 3, 2024 in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. This is just as attendance and participation by other highly...