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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has debunked purported plans to increase the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol from the official N145 per litre. The national oil company had rated the N145 pump price ...
Read More »Africa loses $50b yearly to illicit financial outflows, foreign nations frustrating recovery of looted assets, Sagay declares
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, yesterday disclosed that Africa was losing over $50 billion yearly to illicit financial outflows. Speaking at a walk to commemorate this year’s Africa Union Anti-corruption Day in Lagos, ...
Read More »Okorocha, aides took away 98 vehicles, not 67, says Ihedioha as state introduces TSA, closes MDAs accounts
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has disclosed that the committees raised to recover all property allegedly looted by former Governor Rochas Okorocha and his aides, have uncovered that the last government carted away 98 vehicles, and not 67. Okorocha, through ...
Read More »NJC advocates appointment of Justice Muhammad as substantive CJN
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has endorsed the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to President Muhammadu Buhari. It reached the decision at its emergency meeting initially presided over by Justice Umaru Abdullahi. ...
Read More »Agency asks residents of core northern states to evacuate river banks
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has asked people living along river banks in Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Niger states to relocate to safer places ahead of terrestrial flooding. This follows yesterday’s flooding experienced in parts of the North. ...
Read More »Delta mulls education endowment fund for students
Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that the state government will soon establish an Education Endowment Fund for schools in the state, as part of efforts to develop the education sector. He stated this in Asaba at the Annual ...
Read More »Cholera cases in Adamawa State hit 244
Cholera cases recorded in the last one month have reached 244 in Adamawa State, indicating an increase of 168 from 76 cases recorded in Yola North, Yola South and Girei councils of the state on June 17, 2019. Addressing journalists ...
Read More »Atiku Abubakar wants Nigerians to reject borrowings over nation’s rising debt profile
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has charged Nigerians of all persuasions to reject the country’s alarmingly increasing debt profile, which the Debt Management Office (DMO) has put at over N24.947 trillion. He described the situation in which government continued to ...
Read More »Envoy tasks Obasanjo, Babangida, Danjuma, others on national unity, peace
Nigeria’s envoy to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Alhaji Hassan Ardo Jika, has urged former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd.) to promote peace and national unity. He advised them ...
Read More »Don’t allow disunity to undermine our accomplishments, Vice President Osinbajo urges Nigerians Says Boko Haram resolute on shedding blood, sowing fear
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has advised Nigerians not to allow disunity along ethnic and religious lines to undermine the country’s achievements and potential for future greatness. He made the assertion at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Military Training Centre in ...
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