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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 […]
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has accused the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, of deliberately avoiding petitions they filed to nullify his election. Consequently, the duo have re-approached the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja with ex-parte applications, seeking to […]
In appreciation for her integrity and honesty, Interpol Systems Consultant, Sir Chikwe Udensi, a chieftain of APGA has gifted the Returning Officer in Abia State, Prof. Nnenna Oti the sum of N100million, Udensi made this known to a journalist in Umuahia through a chat. This came hours after another son of the state, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has announced that it will go after some outgoing public officials after May 29. The Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who disclosed this in an interview with Daily Trust, published Friday revealed that at least two ministries were currently under the radar of the commission for fraudulent activities that […]
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