Category: News
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Nigeria’s crude oil export earnings slumped to $12.1 billion in Q2, 2024 as against $12.4 billion in the preceding Q1, reflecting the decline in domestic crude oil production to 1.27 million barrels per day in Q2, 2024 from 1.33 million bpd previously. Data from the Economic Report for the period released by the Central Bank…
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A Yet-To-Be-Identified male adult suspected to be a thief was on Sunday found lying unconscious after being knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened on Friday morning. Our correspondent gathered that the suspect had broken into an apartment in the community…
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A woman in Adamawa State has been killed by a young man she allegedly caught stealing her maize. The man, 20-year-old Abubakar Abdu, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing the woman, 30-year-old Azumi Abubakar, to death. The Adamawa State Police Command, which arrested the man, said in a press statement on Monday that Police operatives,…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has stopped importing refined petroleum products and is now off-taking fuel from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and other local refineries. NNPC’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed this on Monday at the ongoing conference of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists, which was held in Lagos and themed…
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PhD student could not write his name properly – National teachers DG Kaduna -The Director General of the National Teachers Institute (NTI), Professor Garba Maitafsir, has said that as a lecturer at the University, he came across a PhD Student who could not write his name properly. He said that the falling standard of education…
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Morale appears to be surging among border authorities after the election of President-elect Donald Trump, who made border security one of the pillars of his campaign, after nearly four years of relaxed immigration policies that saw record numbers of migrants enter the United States. In addition to strengthening the southern border, Trump has promised to…
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Adata review for the second quarter debt portfolio of the country released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that the debt owed by every Nigerian on the average stood at N619,501. According to the data published by the Debt Management Office, Nigeria’s public debt stood at N134.297 trillion as of the second…
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Senator Monday Okpebholo will be sworn in as Edo State governor today. A rehearsal was held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin ahead of today’s inauguration. Here are videos and pictures of the rehearsal.
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Russia launched a new nuclear-powered icebreaker named Chukotka. The latest vessel has joined the fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers. The launch was overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link. The vessel in the Russia’s Project 22220 series is expected to have a life of 40 years and can endure extreme Arctic conditions. It can…