•Electricity grid The Transmission Company of Nigeria, on Tuesday, said that power supply has been restored to areas affected by arcing on the Benin-Egbin 330 Kilo Volt (kV) isolator at about 6:10 pm yesterday. Arcing is an electrical discharge that occurs when electrons flow between two conductors, usually metal, in an environment with a gas ...
•Governor Godwin Obaseki The Edo State Government has condemned what it called attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to negatively spin comments made by state governor, Godwin Obaseki, where he warned that if the party does not allow for a free and fair election in the state, it will be a […]
•Julius Abure The Labour Party (LP), Edo State chapter, has felicitated with Barr. Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the party over his victory at the Federal High Court sitting in Benin which struck out the suit challenging his legitimacy as national chairman of the party. A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, the Edo […]
•Nigerian lawyers The 2024 election of new national leaders of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is ongoing. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, in a statement made available to The Frontier today says the voting process began at midnight today, Saturday, July 20, 2024, and will end precisely at 11:59 pm also today. Accord...
•Tinubu (middle) and Organised Labour leaders The meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of Organised Labour at the Presidential Villa, Abuja today produced no breakthrough as parties have resolved to maintain the status quo. The Organised Labour is asking for a minimum of N250,000 as the minimum wage whereas the federal gove...
•National grid The national power grid again collapsed for the umpteenth time, throwing the country into total darkness. The grid, according to reports, collapsed around 3 pm today. The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company has confirmed the development. In a statement, the DisCo said all its interface in the Transmission Company of Nigeria s...
•Tinubu, Akpabio and Abass Former National Vice Chairman, North West of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has taken a swipe at the leadership of both chambers of Parliament in the tenth National Assembly. In a today statement entitled, “Importance of Legislature to a Democracy,” the erstwhile chieftain of the APC lamented tha...
•A protester reacts to a teargas canister launched at them by riot police A total of 39 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Kenya that erupted over deeply unpopular planned tax hikes, a national rights watchdog said today. “Data from our records indicates that thirty-nine people have died and three hundred and sixty-one [&he...
•Georgia v Portugal Georgia’s powerful oligarch, Bidzina Ivanishvili will award the country’s national football team $10 million after they made it to the last 16 of Euro 2024, his ruling party said today. Georgia’s 2-0 win over Portugal yesterday was a historic triumph in the Black Sea nation’s first appearance at a major international tourna...
•Ndume The Northern Ethnic Youths Group Assembly (NEYGA) has urged Senator Ali Ndume, the Chief Whip of the Senate, to redirect his legislative expertise towards critical national issues rather than mundane matters like the renovation of the National Assembly chambers. The group noted that renovation of the National Assembly is an internal aff...

