An attempt by an unidentified man to steal an armoured cable from a transformer in the Mgboaba/NTA axis of Ohio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State ended in tragedy as he was electrocuted. The man was said to have gone for the operation at about 3 am on Thursday near a popular Pentecostal Church […]
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared the seats of the 25 lawmakers, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, vacant pending the determination of a suit before it. The court, however, ordered the Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, to stop parading as the […]
The management of the National Medical Services Laboratories in Pennsylvania, United States of America, has refuted the claim by the Lagos State Government that a toxicology test to ascertain the cause of the death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad, was conducted at its facility. According to PunchOnline, the claim by the NMS Labs […]
Students who are candidates of the ongoing West Africa Examination Council, WAEC in Awka and it’s environs disguised themselves as fear of enforcement of sit at home order persists in Anambra state while students sat for mathematics examination. Daily Sun reports that students were seen wearing plain clothes as they made their ways into […]
The website of the student loan fund has received over 60,000 visitors since its launch, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyerr, made this known during an ongoing press briefing in Abuja on Thursday. Sawyerr also noted that over 90% of federal institutions have submitted the list of students, noting […]
The presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms says it has asked the federal government to adopt an exchange rate of N800 per dollar for customs import duty. Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the committee, spoke on Thursday while engaging journalists on the activities of the tax panel in Lagos. More to follow…
Heineken Lokpobiri, minister of state for petroleum resources (oil), says petrol subsidy has been scrapped but the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited can intervene occasionally. On May 29, 2023, President Bola Tinubu said the petrol subsidy regime was over — a declaration that pushed petrol costs significantly higher. Speaking on Wednesday during an […]
A Nigerian “bandit” leader wanted for the kidnapping and murder of civilians has been arrested along with 65 of his men in southern Niger, local authorities announced. The border between Nigeria and Niger has for more than a decade been a hideout for armed groups known locally as bandits who abduct civilians for ransom […]
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND said it has received over 60,000 applications from students of federal government institutions since it launched the students loan application portal. However, NELFUND revealed that 30,000 applications have been successfully processed. NELFUND also said so far, 90 percent of federal universities have submitted their students’ data to its […]
Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says the anti-graft agency has recovered N156,276,691,242.30 in the last one year. Dele Oyewale, spokesperson of the EFCC, said in a statement that Olukoyede spoke on Wednesday during the launch of the commission’s zero-tolerance club at the University of Abuja. Olukoyede, who was […]
