Members of the House of Representatives have asked the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Ibrahim Attahiru, to explain how weapons purchased for the military and police end up in the hands of bandits and miscreants. The House ad-hoc committee on the need to review the purchase, use and control of arms, ammunition and related hardware by military, […]

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno, has said that the NSA was misquoted on the interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Monguno was quoted to have said that the government was not aware of how monies meant for the purchase of […]

How Labour’s threats forced govt’s climbdown Sylva, Ngige, NNPC insist no immediate increase PPPRA deletes template hours after announcing hike Fresh price increase invitation to mass protest – PDP Panic-buying, queues at stations in Lagos, Abuja, others The downstream sector of the Nigerian oil industry was on Friday thrown into confusion following speculations that petrol […]

Nigeria’s petrol price regulator has pulled down the pricing template for March a few hours after it published it. “PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT PUBLISHED PRICES ARE ONLY INDICATIVE OF CURRENT MARKET TRENDS,” Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency said on Friday after deleting the template. The agency is reacting to the nationwide outcry that welcomed the […]

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has dissolved its executives in Ondo State. National President Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa said in Abuja that the union had also initiated a process for setting up of a caretaker committee to be led by Chief Olalekan Folorunsho, the South West Zone 2 chairman, to oversee the […]

Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 287 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 159,933. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. The country has tested 1,601,396 people since the first confirmed case relating to […]

Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan (right); Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Leo Irabor and Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, during a visit to the Governor’s Office in Ibadan… yesterday. Photo: Najeem Raheem Governor seeks more troops for boundary communities South-West leaders to discuss challenges March 17 Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde […]

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has appealed to the Nigerian army to deploy troops to border towns in the state to check the influx of criminal-minded people into the country. He made the call while receiving the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, who led other top military personnel on a courtesy visit to […]