Fuel scarcity is gradually surfacing in Lagos and other parts of the country as private depot owners hiked the ex-depot price of petrol from N630 to N720 per litre. This came as fuel scarcity deepened in Abuja and the adjoining states on Sunday with some filling stations dispensing PMS as high as N900/litre. Our correspondents […]
Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court in Lagos has directed the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar-Farouk, to give details of how N729bn allegedly disbursed to 24.3 million poor Nigerians was carried out. The court ruled that the ex-minister should provide a list of all the beneficiaries, […]
A 27-year-old employee of KAM Steel Integrated Company, Yahaya Ibrahim, was killed by an engine roller after slipping on the machine at the company’s factory along the Sagamu-Ogijo Expressway in Ogun State. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday at 4:50 am while the deceased was working at the company’s plant. The Ogun […]
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a 46-year-old ritualist while attempting to slaughter a 10-year-old boy hawking pepper in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The suspect identified as Isiaka Adeniyi was arrested on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024, at the Oke-Foma area in Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state. The incident which was confirmed […]
The United States President Joe Biden faces a critical week Monday that will test his standing at home and abroad, as moves to force him to quit his fight for a second White House term gather pace. The 81-year-old has so far defied calls to step aside after a disastrous debate against election rival Donald […]
Britons headed to the polls Thursday in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour Party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. The country’s first national ballot since Boris Johnson won a landslide for the Tories in 2019 follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s surprise call to hold it […]
Joe Biden is “absolutely not” pulling out of the US presidential race, his spokeswoman said Wednesday, as pressure mounted following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump. Panic has gripped his Democratic Party in the wake of last week’s TV debate, and internal rumblings about finding a replacement candidate before November’s election have been amplified […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who never set foot within the four walls of a classroom. The board also decried the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions which, it said, had remained a source of embarrassment to the country. The Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in […]
A group, the Kaduna Citizens Watch for Good Governance, on Wednesday, formally submitted a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission against ex-governor Nasir El-Rufai. The group asked the anti-corruption agency to commence an immediate probe of El-Rufai towards his prosecution for alleged N423bn theft. The petition by the group comes […]
The General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, Gbolahan Oki, has blamed the collapse of a two-storey building in the Mushin area on the use of substandard materials. Oki said the owner of the building will be prosecuted for violating an earlier stop-work order of the government and breaking the seal put on […]
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