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The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, said the regulated N165 pump price for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, was no longer realistic. Chairman, MOMAN, Mr. Olumide Adeosun, stated this during a virtual consumer protection workshop for oil marketers by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, in […]
An FBI alleged fugitive who was accused of rape and faking his death has told a court there is ‘mass hysteria’ around his case. The Metro UK reports that the US prosecutors want the courts in Scotland to extradite the man they say is Nicholas Rossi, who is wanted for the alleged rape […]
An escapee from the Kuje Correctional Center, Yakubu AbdulMumuni, had been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command. The 28-year-old suspect was arrested in Sango-Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the State. This information was made known on Wednesday by the State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi […]
The court of appeal sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered MultiChoice to sublicense some channels to Metrodigital, under the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC’s) code. MultiChoice is the South African owner of the satellite television services, DStv, and GOtv popular subscription-based platforms in Nigeria. Metrodigital Limited is a multi-channel terrestrial digital satellite service provider […]
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister’s office said. “Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s spokesman Dinouk Colombage told […]
Ahead of the Saturday governorship election in Osun State, the police and other security agencies, including the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, have declared war on vote-buyers and mapped out strategies to checkmate their activities. To curb the malpractices during the poll, the security agencies have deployed detectives, including undercover operatives, to monitor […]
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to resign immediately if the job is tough for him. HURIWA said this in a statement on Tuesday calling on the President to resign to minimize the damage his “crass incompetence and gross […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday said that Nigeria had signed an agreement for the repatriation of 1,130 Benin bronzes from Berlin in Germany. Mohammed during inauguration of The Art Hotel in Lagos, said that the bronzes were looted from the ancient city of Benin in 1897, 125 […]
Nollywood actor Kenneth Okonkwo has resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressive Congress citing abnormalities in the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the party’s presidential candidates. On Sunday, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, and the APC Presidential candidate chose the former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima as his running […]
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