Author: Teniola Akerele
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Oil marketers, on Tuesday, advised President Bola Tinubu to gradually relax the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, following the inability of importers to access the United States dollars and the impact which this was having on businesses. This came as Tinubu ruled out fuel price hike and reversal of fuel […]
The Federal Government has insisted that no federal university is allowed to charge tuition fees in the country. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr David Adejo said this at a public hearing by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on student loans in Abuja on Tuesday. Adejo said that the recent […]
Former Rivers United captain and new team coordinator, Festus Austin, says he had to make the tough call of quitting active football after battling with an injury over the past four years. After playing for 16 years in the Nigeria Professional Football League, Austin called it quits, having won two league titles with Dolphins and […]
United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has commended President Bola Tinubu’s leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore constitutional order in Niger Republic. The US top official said he spoke with the Nigerian President over the phone and discussed “shared efforts” to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum. Spoke […]
A suspected cultist, Lukman Shonubi, aka Tinny, has confessed to killing no fewer than six persons after he was tracked and arrested by men of the P Police Command. The suspect said to be a leader of the Eiye Confraternity had been under police investigation long before his arrest. The state command through its spokesperson, […]
The Lagos State House of Assembly, on Sunday, commenced the screening of the cabinet nominees sent to it by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday, July 28. Twenty out of 39 nominees had been screened by the end of Monday by an ad hoc committee of the House constituted for the assignment in an exercise that […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has eventually spoken up as regards the widespread concern of a possible hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. In a post by the company, posted around 11:48pm on Monday on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the national oil firm and major […]
The Organised Labour has vowed to proceed with a total, comprehensive and indefinite nationwide shutdown of the country, should there be another increase in Petrol Pump price from the existing 617 naira, which it describes as “illegal”. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, gave the notification on Monday, at the African Trade Union alliance meeting in […]
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has explained why he paid unscheduled visits to Island Maternity Hospital and Lagos Island Hospital, catching the medical personnel unaware. The governor made this known in a statement on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile. According to Sanwo-Olu, his visit to the hospitals was predicated […]
The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Monday hosted members of the Nigerian female football team, the Super Falcons, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Super Falcons crashed out of the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup, being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, having lost through penalties to the English team last Monday, August […]
