The plan by telecommunication operators in Nigeria to hike tariffs for data and voice calls appears not to have gone down well with Nigerians, warning that any move to further impoverish them would be resisted. The planned resistance is coming on the heels of a joint statement released yesterday, by the Association of Licensed Telecom [&hellip...
•IBEDC/UCH Barely 48 hours after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, restored power to the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Oyo State, after agreeing on a payment package with the hospital’s management, IBEDC has said power may be disconnected from UCH if its terms are not met. UCH, however, urged IBEDC to give it time...
•Mbappe Kylian Mbappe has reportedly ruled out a move to the Premier League this summer, ending the tentative hopes Liverpool may have had on completing a deal. The Reds have been tentatively linked with a move for Mbappe ever since he first left Monaco to join Paris Saint-Germain in 2017. Since then, every transfer window […]
The UK will introduce legislation to ban disposable e-cigarettes in order to tackle a rise in youth vaping, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was to announce today, reports AFP. “As any parent or teacher knows, one of the most worrying trends at the moment is the rise in vaping among children, and so we must act […]
•Ganduje and Yusuf Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state today Friday, January 26, said he has no plans to dump the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on whose platform he won the governorship polls. Yusuf was responding to an invite by the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to […]
•Tinubu The presidency has maintained that there are no plans to move the Federal Capital to Lagos as speculated in some quarters. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, stated this in a statement via his official X handle today. According to Onanuga, those peddling the rumour are dishonest, [&h...
•Dangote Refinery The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is to supply fuel to about 150,000 retail outlets operated by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria following a meeting between the management of the refinery and executives of IPMAN. Last week Monday, it was reported that IPMAN had scheduled a meeting with the management of...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) have warned Nigerians against panic-buying and dismissing reports of a planned hike in the pump price of petrol also called Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). According to reports, fuel marketers clashed with the Nigerian Nati...
Thirteen states plan to borrow or get aid assistance of N2.31tn in 2024 to fund their budget deficits, a breakdown of their 2024 proposed budget has shown. This will increase the states’ debt profile to at least N4.73tn. As of the end of September of 2023, the domestic debts of the states amounted to N2.61tn, […]
The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreation Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has rejected a plan by the management of the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC) to sack more workers at the LWC. AUPCTRE said the plan came to light on Monday during a meeting of the union leadership with the LWC’s Managing Director [&h...