•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan The Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, will challenge in court the six-month suspension slammed on her following her face-off with the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over seating arrangements in the red chamber. The legal counsel to the Kogi lawmaker, Victor Giwa, dismissed the Senate resolutio...
•Speaker Obasa After weeks of intense intrigues and manoeuvers among main stakeholders and power brokers in Lagos State, Honourable Mudashiru Obasa yesterday regained his seat as the speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. His dramatic reinstatement, which was preceded by Honourable Mojisola Meranda resigning and reverting to her positio...
In what appears as retaliation against initial price reduction by Dangote Refinery, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), yesterday, slashed the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, from N945 per litre to N860 per litre in Lagos and N865 in Abuja. This came as stakeholders insisted that unless ...
Banks have commenced implementation of the new Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transaction fee charge on customers following the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) directive. Our correspondent who monitored some banks’ ATM gallery in Abuja and environs yesterday, reports that some customers were lamenting about the increase, reports NAN. All the b...
•Atiku and Tinubu The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has highlighted the economic hardship facing Nigerians and urged the Tinubu-led federal government and governments at all levels to take concrete steps to ease the burden on citizens. In a statement on his official X page yesterd...
Small Business Owners and civil society organisations, NGOs, have said there is no justification for the proposed further hike in electricity tariffs, following disclosure by the federal government, yesterday, that it is considering increasing tariffs for customers outside the Band-A category to improve the liquidity of the Nigerian Electricit...
•Dangote Social media users have continued to react differently to the latest reduction in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol by Dangote Petroleum Refinery. Dangote Refinery, yesterday, announced that the ex-depot price of its petrol had been reduced from N890 to N825 per litre, reports Nigerian Tribune. Acc...
Tech giant Microsoft has announced a $1 million (approximately ₦1.6 billion) investment in the Nigerian economy over the next two years to equip one million Nigerians with Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills. The announcement was made today in Lagos by Ola Williams, Microsoft’s Country Manager for Nigeria and Ghana. … developing story ...
The Republic of Niger has begun enforcing restrictions on Nigerians traveling with the ECOWAS passport, barring entry for those without a valid international passport. This move follows the country’s recent withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States alongside Mali and Burkina Faso, reports The PUNCH. Despite maintaining an o...
•Aminu Waziri Tambuwal In a blistering response to the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Sokoto State Governor and Senator representing Sokoto South, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has accused the ruling party of using coercion, propaganda, and economic distress to force defections from the opposition. He described the APC’s latest attack on him...
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