The green chamber also summoned the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, over petrol shortages in the country. This followed a motion of urgent national importance by a member of the House, Umar Ajilo, raising concerns over lingering queues at petrol stations nationwide. The House expects the…
According to the order, the commission said the move was necessitated after MAPs and other operators requested a further review of metre prices in consideration of the significant changes in foreign exchange and inflation rates since NERC’s last price review in September 2023. It said the significant changes in these macroeconomic variables had constrained the…
The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo, has condemned fraudsters and “Yahoo Boys” saying they have a tainted future. From the Yahoo e-mail service, the term “Yahoo Boy” is derived. It is commonly used to refer to young men who engage in various forms of…
the defendant was alleged to have among sundry issues, conspired to divert the said sum during the administration of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, between May 2011 and May 2019, when he served as the commissioner for finance. In a press statement by the commission’s Head of media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale, on Monday, said Banu was…
The threat comes following current nationwide scarcity which has seen prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, surge to between N610 and N800 at the pump, and between N1000 and N1200 at black market. The association’s Unit Chairman and Spokesperson, Aba Depot, Mazi Oliver Okolo who made the threat, said it was…
A 60-year-old lawyer, Alejandra Marisa Rodriguez, has defied age stereotypes by winning the coveted Miss Universe title for the province of Buenos Aires. A weekend report by Indian news outlet, WION noted that Rodriguez has become the first sexagenarian in beauty pageant history to claim such an honour, paving the way for a new era…
Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo made the declaration, according to the ministry’s Permanent Secretary Aishetu Ndayako. “The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, 1st May 2024 as a Public Holiday to commemorate this year’s Workers’ Day Celebration,” Aishetu said in a Tuesday statement. She quoted the minister as re-echoing the need for excellence, efficiency, and…
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Falana claimed that the move is a policy imposed on the Nigerian government by the Bretton Wood institutions. “The Honourable Minister of Power is acting the script of the IMF and the World Bank,” Falana said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday. “Those two agencies insisted and they continue to insist that the government…
