FG says 45m litres of products successfully blended We’ll not lift PMS for depot owners selling above N148.77 – NUPENG Begins enforcement of official rate, sets up taskforce The ongoing shortage of Petroleum Motor Spirit, PMS, worsened in Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Enugu and other major cities across the country, yesterday, with motorists spending hours on […]
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An apprentice, Sunday Ndenta, has expressed dissatisfaction with the settlement he got from his master after serving him for over 14 years. Ndenta spoke to our correspondent on the sideline of a youth forum, tagged, ‘Igba Boi Apprenticeship Scheme,’ in Awka, Anambra State. The scheme is seeking the revival of the apprenticeship system in the […]
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Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were, yesterday, unable to convince President Muhammadu Buhari in their attempt to make him change his mind on his preference for Senator Abdulahi Adamu as the consensus candidate for the party’s national chairman. The APC governors on the platform of Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, met with the president […]
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An Ikeja High Court in Lagos State has discharged and acquitted a man, Anisere Sulaimon, of the charges of defilement and sexual assault after he spent four years in detention. Sulaimon was a final-year student of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education at the time of his arrest in 2018. He was also a part-time […]
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Max Air on Tuesday confirmed that beginning from today (Wednesday), it would commence the evacuation of Nigerians who were left stranded by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But Air Peace, on the other hand, said it had not started the evacuation process, stressing that this would be made public soon. The General Manager, Operations, Max Air, Raymond […]
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Various women groups have blocked the Federal Secretariat axis entrance of the National Assembly to protest the outcome of the voting on constitutional amendment. They were not allowed access into the National Assembly by security agents. The gate was locked against them. During the voting in the National Assembly on Monday, the Bills promoting the […]
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A Superintendent of Police, Tijani Taofiq, and one Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos, have been charged for contempt of court. The police officers had arrested and detained the applicant, a Chinese national, Cheng Zheng, for criminal offence. Zheng is the interpreter and sales manager of Hand in Hand Industry Nigeria […]
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From right: Buhari with some APC governors The Progressives Governors Forum, on Tuesday in Abuja, said there was no plan to shift the national convention of the All Progressives Congress from March 26 despite the election timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The forum’s chairman, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, disclosed this […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented list of voters who registered in 2021 to the 18 political parties in the country ahead of the 2023 general elections. The commission said the move was part of the implementation of the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general election released on Saturday. INEC National […]
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Queues of vehicles at a filling station on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Photo: Stanley Ogidi The cost of transportation is on the increase across the country following the hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in fillings stations in states. Motorists still besieged the few filling stations that dispensed PMS in […]
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