Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said that those benefiting from the lucrative business of fuel importation are going to make every effort to frustrate the Dangote Petroleum Refinery. The former president stated this in an interview with Financial Times in the wake of allegations by the President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji […]
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A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has described President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast to Nigerians as “a pack of empty words and a time-wasting load of irrelevancies.” Effiong said the president’s speech is a confirmation of his long held view that Nigerians are dealing with “a fatalistic political class that is intentionally deaf and willfully […]
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Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, have qualified for the quarter-final of the women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The team defeated Canada 79-70 in its final group game at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, France, on Sunday. The victory earned D’Tigress their first-ever appearance in the quarter-final of the Olympics basketball tournament. Nigeria […]
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President Bola Tinubu on Sunday morning addressed Nigerians on the #EndBadGovernance protest in a televised speech. Tinubu called for a suspension of the demonstrations, asking protesters to give room for dialogue. The president spoke at length about his achievements in office, defended his policies and reiterated that the decisions he took were necessary for the […]
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Veteran Nigerian singer and actress, Onyeka Onwenu has died at the age of 72, according to sources. She was said to have died on Tuesday night at the Reddington Hospital in Lagos after slumping at the birthday party of Mrs Stella Okoli. TheNiche reported that an eyewitness who was at the party confirmed the news. […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has activated National Emergency Operation Centre to coordinate responses and provide timely support to victims of floods and public health concerns. The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs Zubaida Umar disclosed this at a National Emergency Coordination Forum held on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
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The Lagos state government, on Monday secured a court order restricting protesters to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota and Peace Park, Ketu. Emmanuel Ogundare, the judge at the Lagos high court, granted the restriction order on Tuesday while ruling on an ex parte application filed by Lawal Pedro, the state’s attorney-general. While moving his application, Pedro argued […]
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President Bola Tinubu signed the N70,000 minimum wage bill into law on Monday. The bill was signed by the president in the council chamber of the State House, in the middle of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting. The council suspended the meeting to allow the leadership of the national assembly, led by Senate President Godswill […]
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in a statement on Monday ordered telecommunication operators to immediately reconnect all phone lines blocked as part of the NIN-SIM verification exercise. Recall that weekend many Nigerians were unable to access their phone lines due to their “inability to verify” the linkage of “their national identification numbers (NINs) with their […]
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Nigeria’s Minister for State, Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, on Monday convened a high-level meeting with top executives from Dangote Group, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) to address the ongoing issues surrounding the Dangote Refinery. […]
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