The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, should have sold the Port Harcourt refinery to avoid debt. Atiku was reacting to the decision of NNPCL to hand over the Port Harcourt refinery to a private firm to operate and maintain. He noted…
FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has given directives to security agencies to clamp down on criminal elements vandalising streetlights in the nation’s capital. Dr Peter Olumuji, Secretary, Command and Control Centre, Department of Security, Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Abuja on Monday. On assumption of duty as…
Inflation has continued to rise, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics. NBS said inflation closed at a 21-year high of 28.92 per cent. In December 2023, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 28.92 per cent from 28.20 per cent in November 2023. This signified a 0.72 percentage point increase when…
The Code of Conduct Bureau has invited the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, over the involvement of his company in an alleged N438m contract scam uncovered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The CCB has commenced an investigation into the alleged breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers by the…
Kidnappers who abducted 10 people from Sagwari Estate Layout at Dutse in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on January 7, 2024, and killed three, have increased the ransom for the release of others in their custody to N700 million. Leadership reports that after killing some of the kidnap victims, the…
A Ghanaian fan was arrested after assaulting the country’s coach Chris Hughton following their 2-1 shock defeat to Cape Verde in Sunday’s AFCON 2023 Group B game. According to reports in Ghana, the unidentified man attacked Black Stars coach, Hughton at the team’s hotel, prompting the swift intervention of Ghanaian diplomats present at the…
President Bola Tinubu is celebrating his friend and confidant, Chief Bisi Akande, as he clocks 85 birthday on January 16, 2024. Akande was the governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003 and the first interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement, he personally signed and released by his…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has issued a warning to Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State. Accordign to him, nobody can bring him down because God raised him. He said detractors ganging up and plotting to bring him down will fail. Speaking when he visited his loyalist and former Rivers…
Popular Nigerian actress, Funke Akindele has said her divorce from from her former husband, JJC Skillz is not a failure to her. She made the statement in a recent interview. Recall that Funke Akindele has been in the news for weeks after she premiered her movie “A Tribe Called Judah”. She has had many achievements…
Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, has stated that he wants to be remembered for positive things and not negative. He stated that he wants to be remembered for providing good governance and dividends of democracy to the people of the state. The governor asserted that his administration is committed to addressing critical issues of…