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The Federal Executive Council approved two contracts worth N24.20bn for the provision of broadband for free internet in 75 public places, including 20 airports, tertiary institutions and markets nationwide to support micro, small and medium enterprises yesterday. All the projects would be implemented by the Nigerian Communications Commission according to Isa Ali Pantami […]
The Department of State Services says the agency has confirmed a plot by some key players to stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as president and install an interim government. In a statement released by Peter Afunanya, the public relations officer of the secret service on Wednesday, it said: “The Department of State […]
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said Bola Tinubu the President-elect risked his life for democracy in Nigeria. Sanwo-Olu made this remark on Wednesday in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, congratulating Tinubu on his 71st birthday. He said the former governor of the state is a visionary, […]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) says the pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS), also called petrol, should be between N360 and N400 a litre, after the removal of subsidy. Festus Osifo, president of PENGASSAN, made this known while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the association’s […]
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has called on the United Kingdom to recall the deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones for attempting to involve himself in politics. In a tweet on his Twitter page on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode questioned the UK envoy’s competence as […]
The Peoples Democratic Party National Working Committee has appointed Umar Damagum as an interim chairman to oversee the party’s affairs. The decision was announced by the National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba, who announced this at a press conference on Tuesday, at the party’s secretariat.
Scores of protesters under the aegis of The Natives took to the streets of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday to warn opposition parties and critics calling for an interim government not to truncate the nation’s democracy. They have expressed their support for the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood […]
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, has dismissed his purported suspension by a section of his ward executives over alleged anti-party activities as the handiwork of some desperate ignorant gamblers who lack the basic understanding of the PDP Constitution. Ayu said this in a statement signed by his Special […]
Femi Fani-Kayode the Former Aviation Minister has said ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s father might not be a Yoruba man. The Former Minister said the silence of Obasanjo over a recent statement by an Igbo businessman Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu that Yoruba people are “political rascals,” was an indication that the former president’s father was an Igbo […]
Some of the ex-agitators under the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, have said they will not be intimidated by threats of arrest over their protest against the immediate removal of the interim administrator, Maj-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd), over non-payment of their six months allowances. The former agitators said they would protest in the nation’s […]
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