COVID-19: Nigeria’s infections hit 203,081The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), says the country’s COVID-19 cases rose to 203,081 on Wednesday, recording additional 377 new infections. x The NCDC, via its official website,...Thu Sep 23rd, 2021 Read More → |
Experts divided over NNPC board as Buhari writes Senate to amend PIABarely one month after assenting to the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari is asking the Senate to amend the act that was passed by the National Assembly on July 1. The...Wed Sep 22nd, 2021 Read More → |
The dictatorship in Edo - Part 2Obaseki The expectation of the drafters of our Constitution is that every State will have a full blown cabinet, comprising Commissioners and Special Advisers, who would develop policies around...Wed Sep 22nd, 2021 Read More → |
Absence of defence counsel stalls trial in alleged N1.4b subsidy fraudThe trial of Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, over an alleged N1.4 billion oil fraud, could not hold, yesterday, before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High...Wed Sep 22nd, 2021 Read More → |
Ethiopian airline restores Enugu flight operationsEthiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airline (ET) has picked October 1 date for the resumption of flight operations in and out of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. The additional route, after...Wed Sep 22nd, 2021 Read More → |
Mob lynch man in Imo for enforcing IPOB sit-at-home orderEnraged youths have lynched a 34-year old, Obinwanne Iwu, in Imo, for coercing people to obey the sit-at-home order purportedly issued by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Imo state Police...Wed Sep 22nd, 2021 Read More → |
High electricity costs overwhelm South South, South East businessesWith an average of about N70 billion spent on alternative energy, yearly, by local manufacturers due to poor power supply, many industrial firms and businesses in Southeast and South-south are...Tue Sep 21st, 2021 Read More → |
Customs seize fake, contraband goods worth N120m in 2 monthsNigeria Customs Service intercepted fake and contraband goods worth more than N120 million in July and August in its Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’. x The unit covers Abia, Imo,...Mon Sep 20th, 2021 Read More → |
COVID-19: Nigeria logs 168 additional infection, 1 deathThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 168 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, raising the total number of cases in the country since the pandemic began to 201,798. x The NCDC said...Mon Sep 20th, 2021 Read More → |
Gunmen on the rampage in Southeast, kill three policemen, torch INEC office, disperse political meetingThere was a resurgence of violence in the Southeast yesterday, after weeks of respite in killings and attacks on government and security facilities. In Anambra State, unidentified gunmen shot and...Mon Sep 20th, 2021 Read More → |
Ihube abduction: ABSU students not among abductees, says VCabia university •Ikpeazu seeks Imo Police collaboration to arrest abductors Vice Chancellor, Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), Prof Maxwell Ogbulu, yesterday said no student of the...Mon Sep 20th, 2021 Read More → |
Alliance of Nigerian leaders and Igbo dropoutsAll that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many a Nigerian leader is to claim that he has the beans to bring the Igbo people to the centre after the Biafra war. It works like magic for the...Mon Sep 20th, 2021 Read More → |
COVID-19: Nigeria records 336 new infection, 5 deathsNigeria has recorded 336 new cases of COVID-19 infections with five deaths. This is according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in an update released on Sunday. The News Agency of...Sun Sep 19th, 2021 Read More → |
External borrowing plan: Presidency lists projects, beneficiaries of $4b loanNigeriaFifteen projects, spread across the country’s six geo-political zones, are to be financed with more than $4b from multilateral institutions, under the 2018-2021 Medium Term (rolling)...Sun Sep 19th, 2021 Read More → |
Shell trains 40 Imo youths for gas projectsLogos at a Shell service station. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has commenced a one-year professional and vocational training for...Sun Sep 19th, 2021 Read More → |
