• Subsidy removal: Petrol may hit N800/litre from June, stakeholders doubt FG • IPMAN says Buhari yet to honour palliative agreement for CNG, LPG Nigeria may see a foreign exchange gap hovering around $15.1 billion as the Federal Government plans to remove subsidy on the premium motor spirit (PMS) in two months. This comes as […]
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The president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has moved into the Defence House in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja ahead of his inauguration as Nigeria’s president on May 29th, 2023. He and the vice president-elect Kashim Shetttima are expected to stay at the Defence House where they will move into the Presidential Villa after swearing-in. The […]
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The WHO said Wednesday that Covid-19 deaths had dropped by 95 percent since the start of the year — but warned the virus was still on the move. The World Health Organization said Covid-19 was here to stay and countries would have to learn how to manage its ongoing non-emergency effects, including post-Covid-19 conditions, or […]
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Nigeria has sent buses to war-torn Sudan to evacuate its stranded nationals, who are mainly students. This was confirmed by the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who said that the students were undergoing registration. She shared photographs of the students on Twitter, saying: “As our students in Sudan queued […]
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The abandoned hospital Residents in New Kutunku in the Gwagwalada Local Government Area of the Federal Capital Territory are bearing the brunt of a 12-year-old health facility abandoned by the Federal Capital Development Authority At New Kutunku, life is cheap, especially the lives of pregnant women, children, and senior citizens. Yet, a cottage hospital stands […]
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Labour Party has dissociated itself from a viral letter signed by the self-acclaimed factional national chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all cases by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu, in the February 25 general election. According […]
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A human rights lawyer, Festus Ogun, has affirmed that the May 29 inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s next President is non-negotiable. In a statement yesterday, he noted that approaching the court to stop Tinubu’s inauguration is a gross abuse of court process. He spoke to counter another lawyer, Ambrose Owuru, who asked the […]
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Police Inspector General Alkali Usman Baba The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the deployment of 12 Commissioners of Police. They are Mohammed Usaini Gumel (Kano); Haruna Garba (FCT); Tajudeen Abass (Delta); Oladimeji Olarewaju (Ogun); Taiwo Jesubiyi (Ondo) and Julius Okoro (Benue). Others are Romokere Ibiani (Bayelsa); Mohammed Bunu (Yobe); Garba Yusuf (Kaduna); Garba Ahmed […]
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A $15 billion railway project that will link the nine oil-producing states in the country is in the offing. The proposed project is a major component of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and United States-based Atlanta Global Resources. Atlanta Global’s Director, Tony Akpele, told reporters at the […]
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Trapped Nigerian students Air Peace waiting in Egypt for airlift The Federal Government has deployed 40 buses to move no fewer than 2,400 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan today. The plan to bring stranded Nigerians from the crisis-ridden Sudanese capital Khartoum back to the country yesterday failed because of logistics chanllenges. Chairperson of the Nigerians […]
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