News as it breaks
The House of Representatives has ordered the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) to crash the price of Jet-A1, otherwise known as aviation fuel and ensure its availability to the airline operators. The directive was given at a meeting at the National Assembly between the leadership of the…
The Nigeria Governors Forum in collaboration with Centre for Democracy and Development have commence deliberations on how to end insurgency in the country. At the event in Abuja, the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum and Governor of Ekiti State Dr Kayode Fayemi expressed concern about the alarming rate of…
Nigerian Youth Parliament (NYP) in Collaboration with Zamfara State Ministry for Women and Children Affairs has distributed Sanitary Pad, Roll-on Perfumes, Hands sanitiser and Facemasks to 100 Ladies in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara State in the Northwestern Part of Nigeria. During the distribution which took place at the…
Organised labour in Niger state has extended the ongoing seven day warning strike by additional seven days. The strike which began this Monday has now entered its fifth day while the additional seven day warning strike begins effective midnight Tuesday next week. This is contained in a statement jointly signed…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked a federal high court sitting in Abuja to transfer the fresh trial of a former governor of Abia state, Chief Orji-Uzor Kalu and two others to its Lagos division. Chief Kalu and his co-defendants are accused of involvement in an alleged…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB says the ongoing 2022 UTME/DE registration exercise scheduled to end on 26th March, will not be extended. A statement by JAMB’s head of Public Relations Dr Fabian Benjamin says the time scheduled for the registration exercise from 19th February to 26th March, 2022,…
Former head of service of the federation, Steven Oronsaye has denied any involvement in the operation of 66 bank accounts said to have been operated to siphon pension funds. At the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Mr Oronsaye opened his defense in the money laundering case brought against him…
The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has suspended its Lagos chapter’s Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly called Mc Oluomo, indefinitely over alleged misconduct, insubordination, and inciting members of the state chapter against the apex body. The development follows a query sent to the NURTW boss in Lagos over alleged…
The Nigerian Prison Service Kirikiri has explained the reason it permitted a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG Chidinma Ojukwu, and other inmates at its facilities to participate in a beauty pageant. Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo…
A large number of terrorists have attacked Fumigi street in Ungwan Galadima, Gonin Gora, Chikun Local Government area of Kaduna state. They killed 3 locals and abducted two women Rev.Joseph John Hayab, Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN), in Kaduna State said the terrorists raided the community…