
The Okuokpellagbe of Okpella in Etsako East Local Government Area, HRM, Michael Sado and one Patrick Omkhagbo, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged fraudulent activities. They were reported to have been arrested following a petition to the Benin Zonal Directorate of the anti-graft agency. A. O. Osagie &…

The latest reduction in petrol prices by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery should have brought relief to Nigerian consumers. Instead, it has exposed a persistent and troubling pattern in the country’s downstream petroleum sector: prices rise quickly but fall reluctantly. Last week, the refinery cut its gantry price of petrol by ₦100 per litre, bringing it…

Edo State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committees on Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) and Radisson Blu Hotel have asked the state governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, to take over the two institutions. The committees were constituted by the Assembly to look into the ownership of the two projects, initiated by the Governor Godwin Obaseki’sadministration,…

Politicians are really doing what they know how to do better. A community of 50 people should share that rice with an additional condition that was attached to it. Nigeria must learn in a hard way or stop complaining when they are given this kind of palliative ₦3,000 TRANSPORT FEE FOR FOOD AID? EDO RESIDENTS…

NIGERIA RECORDED A HIGHER NUMBER OF POOR PEOPLE THAN INDIA Population: 🇮🇳India — 1.45 billion 🇳🇬Nigeria — 232.68 million Poverty Rate (< $3/day): 🇳🇬Nigeria — 41.8% 🇮🇳India — 5.3% Population living in poverty: 🇳🇬Nigeria — 97.26 million 🇮🇳India — 76.85 million India’s 5.3% poverty rate resulted in 76.85 million people living in poverty. Nigeria had…

Air travel in Nigeria could soon become more expensive as the price of aviation fuel continues to surge across the country. Industry analysts say the increase is largely connected to rising global crude oil prices, which recently climbed above $100 per barrel amid growing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East involving the United States, Israel,…

Fresh concerns have emerged over the possibility of petrol prices in Nigeria surging as high as N3000 per litre, following a new increase in depot prices by Dangote Refinery, while the Presidency has declined to comment on the development. Nigerians are already grappling with higher fuel costs after the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS)…

Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo has performed groundbreaking ceremony for the building of 100MW power generating plant and 300mt per day liquefied natural gas facility at Taihu Industrial Park. He performed the ceremony at Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government. He said his administration would formulate and implement policies that had created a friendly ecosystem for manufacturing,…