The New Experience Newspapers Online News Indepth, Analysis and More

Assembly tasks Sanwo-Olu on prevention of spread The Lagos State government has declared that the first index case of coronavirus recorded in Nigeria has tested negative. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi said the Italian who had been receiving treatment ...

Vice Chancellor of the Igbinedion University Okada (IUO), Professor Lawrence Ezemonye has canvassed collaboration and offering of courses on counter-insurgency operations to check insecurity in the country saying, “Security affair is not a one-man affair.” He made the call at ...

Residents and fishermen along Foropa, Santana communities of the Atlantic coastline in Bayelsa State have expressed fears over a possible oil spill from a vandalised pipeline after sighting dead fishes on the shorelines. This followed safety concerns in the maritime ...

Workers have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Rivers State government to resolve the issues concerning the implementation of the new national minimum wage or risk industrial action. A source in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) told journalists that the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to clinically finish the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the North East to restore peace in the region. Inaugurating the National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC) at the State House, Abuja, the President ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has welcomed the government’s decision to reduce the pump price of petrol from N145 to N125 per litre. In a statement yesterday in Lagos by its state chairman, Akin Akinrinade, the union, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the diversification of Nigeria’s economy had become urgent in the face of the falling oil prices at the international market. He observed that digital technologies had become useful tools in this regard, adding that ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors and other leaders nationwide to be open to criticisms. Receiving members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by its chairman, Ademola Babalola, ...

The Abuja chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has embarked on an indefinite strike over alleged irregularities in salary payment and shortfalls since the introduction of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) by the Federal Capital ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) Delta State branch has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of “deliberately shutting down the Warri Refinery in order to facilitate activities at the Dangote facility, which is still under construction.” ...