Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the rise in human rights abuses in the country. Atiku stated this in a release signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, lamenting that citizens were being arrested in […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri has said the twin problem of petrol smuggling and vandalism is caused by the products subsidy and corroded pipelines. Lokpobiri made this known at the just-concluded Energy and Labour Summit 2024 organised by Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria in Abuja. According to […]
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The director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says insecurity Nigeria is being weaponised for political reasons. Okonjo-Iweala spoke on Sunday at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos state. The WTO director-general said there would not be any development in the country […]
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A Chinese firm, Zhongshang Fucheng Industrial Investment Ltd., has finalised the repossession of a luxury jet owned by Nigeria in Canada. Peoples Gazette reports that Zhongshang recently received a change of custodian paperwork for the Bombardier 6000 type BD-700-1A10 aircraft from Canadian authorities in Montreal after a Canadian court issued a judgement that empowered the […]
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Not less than 13 people were killed when terrorists attacked the Anguwan Mai-Giro community in Niger State on Wednesday night, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. The Niger State Government confirmed the attack but did not say the exact number of people killed. Acting Governor Yakubu Garba described the attack as satanic, insensible, atrocious and callous, according […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has approved in increase in the cost of obtaining the country’s passport. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), KT Udo announced the new passport fees in a statement released on Wednesday. Udo said the increase of the passport fee by the federal government is “part of its efforts […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), is insisting it has not paid fuel subsidy to anybody in the last nine years. Chief Financial Officer of the company, Alhaji Umar Ajiya made the clarifications on Monday in Abuja. Ajiya said the NNPC Ltd. was only taking care of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) importation shortfalls […]
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Tobi Amusan has qualified for the women’s 100-metre hurdles semi-finals at the 2024 Olympic Games on Wednesday. Amusan led the pack of eight athletes with 12.49 seconds, followed by America’s Alaysha Johnson with 12.61 and Jamaica’s Janeek Brown qualified with 12.84 seconds. The 27-year-old is the world record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles. She […]
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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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