By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – MultiChoice Nigeria has announced an increased in the prices of DStv and GOtv packages. The company in a statement issued on Tuesday, attributed the hike in price to the rising cost of inflation and business operations. “In light of the rising costs of inflation...
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Senior Vice President of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Mr Fola Fagbule, on Tuesday said that Nigeria ranked high as a destination for foreign direct investment. Fagbule who is the Head of Financial Advisory of AFC, spoke during a plenary session in the 2022 Law Week of Lagos Branch...
President Muhammadu Buhari says the 2.5 billion dollar Dangote Fertiliser Plant in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, will boost Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings and accelerate economic growth. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari spoke on Tuesday while inaugurating the three million metric tonnes per annum urea production plant....
President of Ior Gboko Foundation, Mr. Jimmy Ajim, and other members of the Executive Committee, participated last Saturday in the final survey by Engineers from the Federal Rural Electrification Agency of the installation of 4 transformers in Gboko, Benue State, today as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Ajim,...
The Senate, will, on Wednesday, debate the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia, which nullified the controversial Section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act. This followed a point of order raised by Sen. George Sekibo (PDP-Rivers) during plenary on Tuesday. The section requires ministers,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) has arrested four suspects who specialized in the production of fake currency notes both naira and CFA. Parading the suspects on Tuesday, the Sokoto State NSCDC Commandant, Muhammad Saleh Dada named...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Lagos on a working visit to commission and inspect some projects in the state. His aircraft touched down at about 10am on Tuesday at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The President was welcomed to the state by Governor Babajide...
A High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, be remanded in a correctional centre. The Lagos State Government charged Ominnikoron with four counts bordering on conspiracy, murder and rape. Justice Sherifat Sonaike ordered that the defendant be remanded in the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, will on Friday, deliver judgment in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River. The PDP, through its counsel Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, had filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021 before Justice Taiwo Taiwo to seek for an...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Following the Federal High Court judgement in Abuja, which sacked 20 lawmakers from Cross River State who defected from PDP to APC, the Cross River State House Of Assembly has been sealed, early this morning and taken over by combined security forces. NATIONAL ACCORD...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to the judgement of The Federal High Court Abuja, which sacked about 20 lawmakers on Monday who defected with Governor Ben Ayade from PDP to APC. This is according to a statement...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday gave a total sum of N62,750,000 to 846 elders and labourers providing services at Bolori Stores, a popular area in Maiduguri where trailers offload and move variety of wholesale food and non-food products from Borno to other...
There was drama at Bwera Parish headquarters in Kyeizooba Sub-county, Igara East Constituency in Bushenyi District (of Uganda) after residents reportedly nabbed a 59-year-old woman having sex with an 18-year-old man. Ms Kedesi Katsigaire, a resident of Nyambirizi Village, Bwera Parish in Kyeizooba Sub-county, had previously been accused of...
Some indigenes of Ile-Ife in Osun State on Monday allegedly invaded the Obafemi Awolowo University campus armed with charms and other fetish objects. The indigenes were protesting against the appointment of non-indigene as the institution’s Vice-Chancellor. The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the protesting Ife indigenes closed the...
Popular Afrobeat singer, Portable has secured an endorsement deal with businessman, Obi Cubana. According to the singer, Obi Cubana paid him N50 million to be an ambassador of his new herbal drink called Odogwu. Portable who could not contain his joy took to his Instagram to announce his latest...
As the Global community on Tuesday March 22, 2023, celebrate the World Water Day with the theme; ‘Groundwater: Making The Invisible Visible’, the world has a again come to agreement that one of the essential elements of earth, water is the prime necessity of life; that all living animals...
“Transparency is the antidote to hypocrisy.” –Britt Merrick. The major headline last week was “Auditor-General queries NNPC GMD over failure to remit N663.89 billion to Federation Account” and “Audit Query: Reps summon heads of 17 NNPC subsidiaries” According to media reports, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria...
A leading APC gubernatorial aspirant for Benue State, Prof. Terhemba Shija has said that the state is wallowing in its current state of socio-economic retardation because its people have slumbered and lost control of the state to hypocritical and criminal elements who have hijacked and mindlessly plundered it. He...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The immediate past Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won the 2015 and 2019 general elections by mistake. According to him, the party wasn’t prepared for governance at the time it won the election which was evident...