Category: News
-
The Nigerian Army has donated houses to 20 wounded-in-action soldiers in Abuja. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, presented the keys to the houses on Wednesday during the commissioning of 400 Housing Units under the Affordable Home Ownership Option for All Soldiers Phase 1 in Abuja. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher…
-
The company said the decision was taken to “provide much-needed relief for Nigerians ahead of the holiday season”. “Africa’s first privately-owned oil refinery, which previously lowered the price to N970 per litre on November 24, has now announced a new price of N899.50 per litre. This reduction is designed to ease transport costs during the…
-
Members of the National Assembly on Wednesday disrupted an attempt by some of their colleagues to sing President Bola Tinubu’s anthem, ‘On Your Mandate We Shall Stand’, during the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the 2025 budget presentation by the President. The incident occurred shortly after a prayer session to…
-
Afrobeats queen, Tiwa Savage speaks on the reason why she feels God delayed her success. The singer attributed the delay in her career breakthrough to divine intervention. On a recent episode of The Receipts podcast, the 44-year-old music star firmly believes that God intentionally postponed her success for a greater purpose. Savage posits that the…
-
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has advanced efforts to launch its single currency, ECO, with the new target date set for 2027. This decision follows a consensus reached during the 65th Ordinary Session and was reaffirmed at the 66th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government held…
-
Tinubu Government Claims It Paid N199billion In December As Electricity Subsidies For Nigerians The disclosure was made in NERC’s December 2024 Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) report, published on its website. . The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has stated that the President Bola Tinubu-led government paid N199billion as electricity subsidy for December 2024, up from…
-
No fewer than 614,937 Nigerians were killed and 2,235,954 others kidnapped across the country between May 2023 and April 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. The NBS disclosed this on Tuesday in its report titled ‘The Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024’, and based on the surveys conducted between May…
-
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has directed immediate investigation on the case of one Segun Olowookere who was sentenced to death. Olowookere was sentenced to death by hanging for theft of chicken. Governor Adeleke gave this directive through a statement issued by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Tuesday. The governor directed the state’s Attorney General…
-
The Federal Government has approved N30bn for the nation’s 30 universities of agriculture to immediately commence mechanised farming. The announcement came with a directive for specialised universities to focus strictly on their core mandates and cease offering programes unrelated to their original purpose. The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, disclosed this on Tuesday in…
-
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned Francis Atuche, former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank), alongside Joachim Nnosiri and Uguru Onyike, for alleged forgery, News360 Nigeria reports. The trio is facing a nine-count charge of forgery, conspiracy, and falsification of documents before the Ikeja Special Offences Court.…