BY GODWIN OBI With less than three weeks to go until the presidential election, major shortages of cash and fuel have plunged the nation into crisis. As well as provoking outrage among ordinary people, the shortages threaten to upend the February 25 presidential poll while throwing its organisation into doubt.Continue Reading
-NIMASA desires improved partnership with Republic of Korea- Jamoh. BY GODWIN OBI The Deputy Minister for Overseas Koreans and Consular Affairs, Republic of Korea, Choi Yeong, says Nigeria is the gateway to unlocking the potentials of the African Continent’s Blue Economy. Choi Yeong who made the assertion during a courtesy call onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Peter Obi’s presidency will tackle Nigeria’s fuel subsidy regime in the first 100 days if elected and redeploy the funds to key areas. This was the Labour Party (LP)’s vice presidential candidate Yusuf Baba-Ahmed’s promise when he was featured on a TV Show Tuesday Despite being aContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has apologised to Nigerians for the over three months of pains caused by the nationwide fuel scarcity. The Group CEO, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s special election programme The 2023 Verdict on Tuesday, assured theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has given May 15 as the expected date of delivery for the Second Niger Bridge with four kilometres until completion. Fashola made the disclosure during a live appearance on Channels Television’s The 2023 Verdict on Monday. Asked when the projectContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Justice Eneojo Eneche of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, has stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), President Muhammadu Buhari and 27 commercial banks from suspending or interfering with the currency redesign terminal date of February 10, or issue any directive contrary to the saidContinue Reading
NIMASA Deep Blue Project officials BY GODWIN OBI A total of 7 distressed workers have been saved by the prompt response of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) following a distress call to the Director General, Dr. Bashir Jamoh OFR. The call, which came in at about 11.30Continue Reading
BY EFE MODESTUS Prof. Ayobami Salami, the Ekiti State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) has said that the commission won’t disappoint Nigerians in the 2023 general election. Salami stated this when he spoke with Newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday shorly after monitoring the mock accreditation forContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Large consignments of illicit drugs especially cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ephedrine billed for Europe through various disingenuous modes of concealment have been intercepted at the BY Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, sayingContinue Reading
. BY GODWIN OBI Tragedy struck at Balogun Market yesterday, when fire gutted the topmost part of a three-story building on number 74, Martins Street, by Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, LSDPC Building, Lagos Island. and destroyed goods worth millions of naira in the process. According to an eyewitness,Continue Reading