BY GODDY OBINWA The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi says Nigeria will regain its pride position in Africa, if he is elected as president in 2023. Obi said this in his tweet to commend his Tanzanian supporter who placed the party’s flag on mount Kilimanjaro.Continue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The Federal Government has commenced the process to effectively shut down the Presidential Amnesty Programme by December 31, 2022. It was learned that the government has already engaged an audit firm with a mandate to embark on a comprehensive audit of the programme from inception till date,Continue Reading
BY MARTINS DURU After four months of uninterrupted petroleum products supply, fuel queues suddenly returned to various parts of the country yesterday, even as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) blamed the development on a new price hike regime by private depots operators. The queues which were firstContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello-Koko has explained that rogue vessels engaged in crude oil theft on Nigerian waters go undetected because they turn off their Automatic Identification System (AIS). Koko briefed State House correspondents on Tuesday in Abuja, saying such ships evadeContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBIWA Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Tuesday appeared to withdraw his support for the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. Mr Ortom accused the PDP candidate of dishonoring him as Governor and working against the interest of Benue residents. His comments came after aContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said he would deal decisively with insecurity and ensure that any service chief or member of his cabinet who underperforms is sacked immediately. “My first responsibility in the country is to secure lives and propertyContinue Reading
BY EFE MODESTUS Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, said Nigeria was at crossroads, as the country prepares for the 2023 general elections. He made the remarks in Abuja at the 2022 Convocation ceremony of the Postgraduate and Higher National Diploma programmes of NILDS. The institute is an affiliate ofContinue Reading
• Schools close, hotels, worship centres, markets beef up security BY MARTIN DURU In a swift response to the terror alert by the United States, many schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), mostly private, basic and secondary schools, have temporarily closed their gates against the students. Similarly, many worshipContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The United States Coast Guard, USCG, through Captain Brian Lisko of the US Department of State has commended the efforts of the Nigerian Government to suppress criminality in Nigeria’s maritime domain and by extension the Gulf of Guinea. Capt. Brian Lisko who stated this while on a fact finding visit to the ManagementContinue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted two ladies and two men wanted in connection with over 16,000 kilograms (16 tons) of illicit drugs in Lagos, Abuja, and Netherlands. In Lagos, anti-narcotics officers who have been on the trail of 48-year-old Aro Aderinde, forContinue Reading