No fewer than 17 persons were burnt to death on Friday in an accident involving a Mazda bus and a tanker at Isara Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, Mr Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of...
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Nigerian tech startups are complaining of increasingly being frustrated by global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) who connive with some overseas-based distributors to ship their products into Nigeria without paying value added tax (VAT) and allied taxes. The implication of this is that many Nigerian tech startups are frustrated out...
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers arm of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) have shelved their planned strike. The groups had threatened to go on strike over claims of diversion of the N621bn road fund provided by...
Nigeria and five other African countries have been chosen to begin production of COVID-19 vaccine, with the continent having had limited access to jabs. The World Health Organisation announced this on Friday. The other countries are: Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. According to the WHO, they were...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Chairman of Cross River State Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Ambassador Ogar Osim has commended the Youth Lobby Group for organizing a monumental initiative to bring together about 50,000 young people across the South-South region for a phenomenal discussion and sensitization on increased youth participation...
A woman, Ramota Soliu, has allegedly killed her husband, Bello, at a Fulani settlement at Iyana Ilewo, in the Abeokuta-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The mother of two was reported to have poured hot water on her husband, which led to his death. It was gathered that...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has formally handed over the Aba ring-fenced area of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) to Geometric Power. The Director General of BPE, Mr. Alex A. Okoh said in a statement on Thursday that the asset is being...
The National Economic Council (NEC) has resolved to encourage the growth of the automotive industry in Nigeria by improving patronage of locally manufactured vehicles, just as the Council got assurances that the current fuel situation in parts of the country would be resolved by next week. Both of these...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Ahead of the 2023 general election, one of the presidential aspirants of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Senator Rochas Okorocha has advised Nigerians to be vigilant and also mindful of who they collectively entrust their future into his hands as the next president....
The House of Representatives on Thursday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to urgently deploy physical enumerators and other assistance to conduct new voter registration across all federal constituencies. INEC had put in place a machinery for a virtual continuous voters registration, but the online process does not...
The Chief Imam of Kafanchan Central Mosque in Kaduna State, Sheikh Adam Tahir, has died at the age of 130 years, leaving 26 children, 290 grandchildren and more than 200 great-grandchildren behind. Deputy Chief Imam of Kafanchan, Alhaji Muhammad Kassim, said Sheikh Adam died on Wednesday evening in an...
The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) is set for a showdown with authorities of the Nigerian Navy over its planned appointment of Commodore Ayo Vaughan as the new Naval spokesperson. PRNigeria gathered that Vaughan, who may soon be officially announced as the Director Naval information lacks training on...
Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT High Court on Thursday sentenced two dismissed policemen to death for armed robbery. The convicts are James Ejeh and Simeon Abraham. They were arraigned on Oct. 20, 2017 by the FCT Commissioner of Police on two counts of conspiracy and armed robbery. Delivering...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s creative sector is one of the most vibrant in the world. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice president received on a courtesy call at the Presidential Villa, a Kannywood delegation. Kannywood is the Hausa-language film...
Students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo State have barricaded the roads in a solidarity protest for the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The protesting students blocked the Benin-Lagos expressway in the school axis, resulting in outcoming and incoming vehicles getting stuck in...
Rep. Chinedu Ogah (APC-Ebonyi) has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to dialogue with the Federal Government towards resolving its dispute. Ogah, who represents Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abakaliki. The lawmaker said that ASUU’s incessant strike had resulted in...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has suspended an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Sunday Ubua and Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), James Bawa, who both worked under the embattled Abba Kyari in the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). This was contained in a statement issued...
The Police in Akwa Ibom have confirmed the killing of Chief Bassey Emah, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. “We received report that gunmen killed Emah,’’ SP Odiko Macdon, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Although Olorogun Johnson Modika Barovbe has passed on, his good deed will forever be in the hearts of those he left behind. “He was an Urhobo patriot, a visionary leader, a strategist and great unifier.” The aforementioned qualities were the testimonies of those who spoke in a day of tribute part 1 held at The...
Leaving 26 children, 290 grandchildren and more than 200 great-grandchildren behind, the Chief Imam of Kafanchan Central Mosque, Sheikh Adam Tahir, has died at the age of 130 years. Deputy Chief Imam of Kafanchan, Alhaji Muhammad Kassim, said Sheikh Adam died on Wednesday evening in an illness. Kassim said...