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The Nigeria Labour congress, NLC has rejected the Federal government’s planned fuel subsidy removal describing it as a ‘penny wise pound foolish’ gamble. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, had on Tuesday announced at a World Bank event in Abuja that petrol would sell for between N320 […]
Mr. Emmanuel Uti, lead counsel to Chief Ayiri Emami, on Wednesday disclosed that the embattled Ologbotsere of Warri has met his bail conditions. Ayiri was on Wednesday arraigned at Magistrate Court 2 in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State for alleged theft of two royal crowns valued at N2 billion. The popular […]
A group of Bayern Munich fans are putting pressure on the club to end their controversial Qatari sponsorship deal amid claims of human rights abuses. Bayern signed a five-year sponsorship deal with state-owned Qatar Airways in 2018 which the German media claim is worth around 20 million euros ($22.5 million) per year to the […]
The box office takings of the Chinese patriotic film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” hit 5.69 billion yuan ($891 million) on Wednesday, putting it in position to become China’s highest-ever grossing film, data from online movie ticket booking platform Maoyan showed. The box office takings by Wednesday had hit the same level as the […]
France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema was found guilty of complicity in the attempted blackmail of a former international team mate over a sex tape on Wednesday and sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term. The Versailles court also fined him 75,000 euros ($84,170) and ordered him to pay former team mate Mathieu […]
Scores of protesting women drawn from the states of Niger Delta on Tuesday shutdown official activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) at its headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The protest, according to the women, was to demand the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a substantive board for the interventionist […]
Nigerian music superstar, Wizkid has bagged two nominations at the 64th Grammy Awards announced Tuesday by the Recording Academy. The Academy announced the nominations for each of the 86 categories for the 2022 GRAMMYs Awards show holding early next year. Wizkid was nominated alongside fellow Nigerians –Femi Kuti, Burna Boy and Tems for Best […]
Human rights organization, Amnesty International, Nigeria has faulted the claims of the Minister of Information, Mr Lai Mohammed over the Lagos #ENDSARS report. The Minister of Information and Culture at a press conference in Abuja had described the leaked report as one laced with discrepancies and inconsistencies, and was unverified fake news. He insisted […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has described the leaked report of the Lagos State panel as fake. Mohammed said this at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday. The nine-member panel had in its leaked report alleged that at least nine persons were killed at the Lekki toll plaza when soldiers […]
The governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa of has called on the Federal Government and relevant policy makers to initiate steps towards reducing the rising cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the country. The governor made the call at a two-day LPG sensitisation and awareness campaign organised by the National LPG Expansion […]
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