Category: News

The Senate has passed for second reading the Local Automotive Industry Patronage Bill, 2025, which seeks to mandate Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of government to prioritise the procurement of locally manufactured vehicles. The bill, sponsored by Senator Ndubueze Patrick Chiwuba (Imo North), aims to promote indigenous automobile production as a key strategy for economic […]

A former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has called for the reform of public institutions in the country to avoid sensitive glitches that might turn to a national crisis . While speaking with some journalists in Awka on Thursday, he decried the 2025 Joint Admissions and Matriculation […]

A bill seeking to make voting compulsory for Nigerians of voting age, on Thursday, scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. Titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Electoral Act 2022 to Make It Mandatory for All Nigerians of Majority Age to Vote in All National and State Elections and for Related […]

The Naira continued its upward trend on Wednesday, appreciating further at the official market and closing at N1,596.70 to the U.S. dollar. According to data released on the Central Bank of Nigeria’s official website, the local currency gained N3.33 against the dollar. This improvement represents a 0.21 per cent appreciation compared to the rate of […]

The Director-General of the Nigeria Safety and Investigation Bureau, Alex Badeh, has said that the United States National Transportation Safety Board shared the report of the helicopter crash that claimed the life of the former Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, alongside his wife, son, and three others, with the NSIB. […]

Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, has dared Arise TV anchor and former presidential spokesperson, Dr Reuben Abati, to a fight over what he described as disrespectful and mischievous comments made on live television. Oshiomhole issued the challenge on Tuesday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he reacted to a recent episode […]

The Peoples Democratic Party’s serving and former Governors’ Reconciliation Committee led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki held a meeting with members of the party’s National Working Committee on Monday to address the recent wave of defections, the issue of the National Secretary, and other related issues. Sources said that the meeting, which included PDP […]

. Rectors, provosts, principals, examiners to meet JAMB chiefs, candidates decry results discrepancies The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will on Thursday review the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination following what it described as “unusual” public complaints. A notice in Abuja confirmed that the review meeting would bring together vice-chancellors, provosts, rectors, […]

Oil marketers have declared that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and others in Nigeria may raise the pump price of petrol to N1,500 per litre once there is an outright ban on fuel importation. While the National Publicity Secretary of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Udadike, affirmed this, the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet […]

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has set June 27 to give a final judgment in the case filed by suspended Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Akpoti-Uduaghan is challenging her suspension from the Senate. She took the matter to court after the Senate, led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, suspended her […]