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Fuel scarcity: FG begins 15-day emergency fuel supply
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FG gives fresh condition for gas licence
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Lagos uncovers under-bridge apartment where tenants pay N250,000 rent
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Coastal highway: Peter Obi inciting Igbo against FG, Umahi alleges
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Daniel Anjorin, 14-year-old British-Nigerian named victim of London daytime sword attack
No Nigerian will work under inhuman conditions again – Senate President
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has assured Nigerian workers that the National Assembly and the executive arm of government would work collaboratively to give them a living wage and better wor...
2nd May 2024
Fuel scarcity: FG begins 15-day emergency fuel supply
As fuel scarcity continues to bite harder in different locations, the Federal Government says it has begun a 15-day emergency fuel supply to ensure the commodity circulates across the length and bread...
2nd May 2024
FG gives fresh condition for gas licence
The Federal Government says it will stop granting licences to gas companies with no capacity to build pipelines for gas distribution. This, the government said, became necessary to discourage the tran...
2nd May 2024
Lagos uncovers under-bridge apartment where tenants pay N250,000 rent
The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Wednesday, said the government discovered an apartment under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, where tenants pay N25...
2nd May 2024
Coastal highway: Peter Obi inciting Igbo against FG, Umahi alleges
The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has alleged that the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, was inciting the people of the South East (Igbo) against the...
1st May 2024
Daniel Anjorin, 14-year-old British-Nigerian named victim of London daytime sword attack
A 14-year-old boy who lost his life on Tuesday after a man wielding a sword stabbed the youth, two police officers and two other people in a street attack in east London has been identified as Daniel ...
1st May 2024
Moghalu: Ex-presidential candidate's wife knocked for asking investors to stay away from Lagos
Maryanne, the wife of the presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party in the 2019 general elections, Kingsley Moghalu, has been heavily criticised for warning investors to stop investing in ...
1st May 2024
She’s beautiful, well-spoken: Nigerians seek woman who spoke out against fuel scarcity in viral 1994 TV clip
Nigerians are on a quest to uncover the identity of a woman who eloquently spoke in a TV story about fuel scarcity 30 years ago. A user on X.com, Jackie, who identifies as #JWEZEE had shared the video...
1st May 2024
Dangote refinery gets valid operating licence soon – FG
The Federal Government, on Tuesday, announced that it was set to issue a fully valid operating licence to the 650,000 barrels per day capacity Dangote Petroleum Refinery. It announced this at the St...
1st May 2024
Landmark: Five other beach businesses demolished for coastal highway
On Monday, a portion of Landmark Beach, nestled on Victoria Island, Lagos, was demolished to pave the way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has consistently jus...
1st May 2024
FG raises salaries of military, police, others
The Federal Government has approved a 25 to 35 per cent increase in the salary structures of police officers, the armed forces, public servants, among others. It announced this on Tuesday through the ...
1st May 2024
Coastal highway: FG to pay N2.75bn compensation today
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has disclosed that the Federal Government will, on Wednesday (today), pay N2.75 billion in compensation to property owners affected by the demolition necessary for ...
1st May 2024
Coastal highway: What we built in six years was demolished in six hours - Landmark
A part of Landmark Beach on Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday was demolished to give way to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Nigeria’s biggest public infrastructure project. This is despite the...
1st May 2024
Naira rebounds as dollar supply hits $7bn in two months
Dollar supply in the official foreign exchange market reached a substantial sum of $7.3bn in the months of March and April, findings by The PUNCH have shown. This is as the naira rebounded against the...
1st May 2024
INTERPOL pursues extradition of Binance chief from Kenya
The International Criminal Police Organisation for Africa says all paperwork has been completed for the extradition of the fleeing executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Nadeem Anjarwalla. It added th...
1st May 2024
Pregnant woman, eight others injured in Lagos gas explosion
A yet-to-be-identified pregnant woman and eight others sustained varying degrees of injury following a gas explosion that occurred at Alaba Lane, Alayabiagba Community, in the Ajegunle-Apapa area of L...
1st May 2024
Extradition of Binance fugitive on, says Interpol VP
The Vice-President of the International Criminal Police Organisation for Africa, Garba Umar, has said that upon the escape of Nadeem Anjarwalla, known as the Binance fugitive, Interpol was promptly no...
30th April 2024
UTME failure: Phones, TikTok, parties, Nigerians search for what to blame
Less than 24 hours after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board released the 2024 UTME results which recorded a a 77% failure rate, Nigerians have started identifying factors responsible for the...
30th April 2024
How bandits sacked me from 10,000 hectares Kaduna farm - Ex-gov Bafarawa
A former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, on Monday lamented the activities of bandits in the north. He revealed how bandits made him abandon his 10,000 hectares of land in Kaduna State. S...
30th April 2024
Why Kano, NNPP succeeded in inflicting damage on Ganduje - Lukman
The immediate past National Vice Chairman (North-west) of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman, on Tuesday, said the desperate move to remove the National Chairman of the party, Dr Abdu...
30th April 2024
Rivers PDP Ward suspends Rep loyal to Fubara
The Peoples Democratic Party in Ngor, Ward 1 in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State has suspended the member representing Andoni/Opobo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Aw...
30th April 2024
Electricity tariff increase: You failed Nigerians, Falana slams Adelabu
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has passed a vote of ‘no confidence’ in the Federal Government, saying that the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has failed Nigerians. Falana was react...
30th April 2024
UK-based Nigerian doctor loses licences over sex for free Botox injections
A United Kingdom-based Nigerian doctor, Tijion Esho, has lost his medical licences after being found guilty of giving free Botox injections in return for sex, Telegraph reports. Esho is known for his ...
30th April 2024
Kizz Daniel, Tekno in war of words over 'Buga'
Nigerian music stars, Daniel Anidugbe, aka Kizz Daniel and Miles Kelechi, aka Tekno, were embroiled in a public spat after a social media post claimed that Kizz Daniel had been sending Tekno a share o...
30th April 2024
Tinubu not fair to el-Rufai, Yahaya Bello, says Ogun PDP chieftain
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and one of the governorship aspirants during 2023 elections in Ogun State, Segun Showunmi, on Monday, cautioned President Bola Tinubu from toeing path of an...
30th April 2024
CBN stops Opay, Palmpay, others from onboarding new customers
Some bank customers have expressed panic as the Central Bank of Nigeria bans mobile money operators including fintech firms from onboarding new customers. However, the Bank Customers Association of Ni...
30th April 2024
EFCC probes 1,146 frozen accounts for money laundering
In continuation of its crackdown on forex racketeers, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has pencilled for investigation, 1,146 bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies over alle...
30th April 2024
1.4 million UTME candidates scored below 200 – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Monday, released the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, showing that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to sco...
30th April 2024
Ile-Ife trip: Benin chiefs lose titles, barred from palace
The five Benin traditional functionaries suspended on Saturday for engaging in sacrilegious conduct against the Benin custom have been barred from the Oba of Benin’s palace. The chiefs were said to ...
30th April 2024
FG begins fresh bid rounds for oil blocks
The Federal Government on Monday announced the commencement of the 2024 oil bid rounds in accordance with the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act. It announced this in Abuja at the first edition ...
30th April 2024
Finidi George appointed new Super Eagles head coach
The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed former Super Eagles winger Finidi George as the new head coach of the nation’s senior men’s national team. The announcement came in a statemen...
29th April 2024
