The Federal government said on Wednesday that it was depending on Dangote and state-owned refineries to end massive petrol importation in Nigeria. The Dangote plant and the government have the capacity to refine 650,000 and 445,000 barrels per day, respectively. Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, speaking in Read More…
Dr. Olusegun Aderemi, a Lagos-based industrialist, has labelled the country’s economic problems as man-made, saying they are the creation of some persons in the position of authority. Aderemi, who is the Atayero of Aramoko Ekiti, also campaigned the enlightenment of youth on the understanding of the difference between value and things that add no value. Read More…
The wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, Rosmah Mansor, was on Thursday sentenced to ten years in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts by a Malaysian court. The judgment came just days after her husband was jailed for corruption. Rosmah Mansor and Najib Razak, have been the focus of Read More…
The head of a Russian oil giant who had criticized President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine died Thursday after reportedly falling out of his hospital window. Ravil Maganov, Lukoil chairman died after falling from a window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Reuters reported, citing two sources familiar with the situation. The company issued a statement early Read More…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), plans to publish the final list of candidates for the Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives seats on Sept. 20 ahead of 2023 poll. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the ”Expert Meeting on Conducting Nigeria’s 2023 General Elections in Volatile Security Environment”, organized by Read More…
Ifeanyi Onyega, a 22-year-old painter, has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre by an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, on Thursday in Lagos for allegedly defiling his neighbours’ 16-year-old daughter. Mrs. M.O. Tanimola, the Magistrate, who did not heed Onyega’s plea, instructed that the case file should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for Read More…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday said that the Lagos State Government will establish the State Tertiary Education Trust Fund to create a financial model that will sustain its universities, on Thursday. He stated this when the Visitation Panel to the Lagos State University (LASU) tendered its report to him at the State House in Marina. Read More…
Olakunle Oluomo, Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, was arrested by the operatives of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos on Thursday on his way out of the country. Reports have it that the operatives of the EFCC picked him up to answer questions Read More…
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi received Kassim Shetima, running mate to Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the APC, in the 2023 general elections as both discussed strategies for APC’s triumph in the forth-coming elections on Monday. Meeting in camera, their dialogue centred on various plans and strategies for winning the forthcoming presidential election for Read More…
The Head Coach of Nigeria’s U-19 Girls Volleyball Team, Elishama Elam, on Sunday disclosed a list of 14 players to represent the country at the forthcoming 2022 Girls U-19 African Nations Volleyball Championship. Nigeria hosts the Championship which will serve off on Tuesday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja. The crew to assist Read More…
