Aspirants’ lobby intensifies in APC, PDP one week to primaries • Move to adopt Udom as PDP consensus candidate builds up• Wike blasts Atiku, other aspirants for betraying PDP in 2015• S’West PDP to speak with one voice at convention, say Makinde, Fayose• Badaru withdraws aspiration to back Amaechi• Senate President begins consultations with delegates
Security operatives have killed a notorious kidnapper and gang leader in Akwa Ibom state, Otobong Moses popularly known as Oto Abasi. The criminal was gunned down in a raid carried out by troops of 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army in conjunction with the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps as well as other security agencies. The Assistant Director,
Tottenham Women Football Club’s forward Chioma Ubogagu has been handed a nine-month ban following two anti-doping violations, the Football Association in England announced on Thursday in London. The 29-year-old, who has three England caps, admitted the violations relating to the banned substance canrenone, which was detected in a urine sample last October. The independent regulatory
The faction of the All Progressives Congress in Bauchi State loyal to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has promised to deliver all the votes of its delegates to the National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, at the party’s presidential primary. The chairman of the faction, Babayo Aliyu, stated this in a welcome address
Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Bamidele Rasaq, over his alleged involvement in the vandalism of AEDC aluminum cables. Bamidele Rasaq, 45, was arrested alongside his accomplice Isiaka John, 40, in Iyara, Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. Parading the suspects
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the sum of N665 million for the acquisition of poultry equipment for farmers in Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Zamfara. This was disclosed at the FEC meeting on Wednesday by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouk, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja.
The Nigerian Senate has passed a bill that strengthens the power of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to recover bad loans acquired from commercial banks. In the new AMCON Amendment Bill, the agency has been empowered to go after bank debtors and take over assets other than the ones used as collateral to
On Monday, 19th of April, 2021, the NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari assured Nigerians that there would be no increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as Petrol in May. Kyari also added that Petroleum Tanker Drivers had suspended their proposed strike after the intervention of NNPC in the impasse between the
Amazon, US retail giant has announced that it would be opening its first African office in South Africa with a real estate investment of over R4 billion. This announcement is coming a week after Twitter choose to open its first African office in Ghana. Authorities in Cape Town noted that Amazon would be occupying a