The federal government says plans are ongoing to increase electricity tariffs “over the next few months”. It, however, said that the planned increase needed to be balanced by subsidies for less-affluent electricity users. Bloomberg quoted the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Energy, Olu Verheijen, as giving this hint at the Africa H...
Wale Adenuga Productions (WAP), has announced that a fresh season of SUPERSTORY, titled, ‘The Curse’, would start airing across Nigeria and worldwide on Thursday August 8, 2024. The star-studded cast of SUPERSTORY: The Curse includes Mr. Macaroni, Yetunde Barnabas Olayinka, Hafiz Oyetoro, Gloria Young, Babaseun Faseru, Sa’eed Muham...
Crisis has again erupted in the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress as the federal lawmaker representing Kaura-named-Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency, Hon Sani Jaji and his supporters created another faction within the party. Addressing a press conference in Gusau on Wednesday, the chairman of the Sani Jaji-led APC faction...
•The protesting youths The fresh killings of 11 people this morning by suspected bandits in Ayati community of Ukum Local Government Area in Benue State have sparked a wild protest in the vicinity. Ukum is one of the three LGAs in the Sankera ancestral bloc that has been plagued by armed outlaws for many years, […]
The federal government through the Central Bank of Nigeria has raised a total sum of N284.26bn in the latest Nigerian Treasury Bills auction. This was as its T-Bills debts soared to N10.4tn between December 2023 and March 2024, marking a 60 per cent rise in just three months, reports The PUNCH. According to the auction […]
•Tinubu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday threatened to shut down academic activities in public universities across the country over non-substantial implementation of the 2009 agreement with the Federal Government, several months after it suspended the last strike. ASUU said it is putting the public on notice of a possi...
•Victor Oko-Jumbo The political crisis in Rivers State has taken a whole new twist as some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara elected the member representing Bonny constituency, Victor Oko-Jumbo, as their Speaker. Oko-Jumbo, who is said to be the new speaker for the entire 32-member Assembly, was ...
•UK Prime Minister Sunak The UK yesterday joined the United States and Canada in announcing a fresh set of sanctions against Iran’s drone and missile industries after its recent attack on Israel. Tehran launched its first direct military assault on Israeli territory nearly two weeks after an April 1 air strike — widely blamed on […]...
•Embattled former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, for approving the printing of N684.5m notes at the rate of N18.96bn. In the fresh 4 count charge filed against him, the EFCC alleged that Emefiele disobeyed...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Scores of persons, mainly women have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tilengpat village of Pushit District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Sources emanating from the community indicated that fourteen females and one male were brutally murdered during the attack last night, with houses and proper...