Day: January 30, 2023

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, on Monday, raised the alarm that their findings showed that the price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, had risen to as high as N650/litre in some locations. It said this was due to the prolonged scarcity of the commodity, which grew worse in

It is painfully disturbing to admit the intensity of the pungent stench currently emanating from the sewer of our present social existence. Where certain questionable characters are being criticised, it is sad to note that the present society has decided to turn a blind eye; accepting the abnormal as a norm. A popular saying among

The board of Directors of the United Bank for Africa Plc, has appointed Mrs Abiola Bawuah, as chief executive officer of UBA Africa. The bank disclosed via a statement on Monday that Bawuah would also join the group board as an executive director, overseeing the Group’s operations across the African continent, outside Nigeria. UBA operates

SOLOMON ODENIYI reports that no fewer than nine  air strikes, which were targeted at bandits and terrorists, have accidentally hit wrong targets and sent many Nigerians to their early graves Some herders from Nasarawa State went to Makurdi, the Benue State capital  to recover 1,250 cows impounded by the state Livestock Guards, unaware they would

The African Development Bank has said it has put in place a $1.5bn emergency food production facility to support food sufficiency in Africa. The President, AfDB, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, who stated this in an interview at the Governor’s Office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, when he paid a visit to the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on

The newly appointed Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig-General Y. D Ahmed, on Monday took over from Christy Uba, at a handover ceremony in Abuja, with a promise to take the organization to greater heights. He also unveiled his five-point agenda anchored on security, good environment, strengthening stakeholders engagement, enhancement of capacity building

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has revealed that 445,081 candidates have registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Oloyede who disclosed this while monitoring the registration exercise in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Monday, said that JAMB’s target this year is 1.8 million adding that there will

A senior Law lecturer at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, Dr Lateef Misbau, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to identify and punish its officials found to have erred in the conduct of the last July 16 Osun governorship poll. Alamu, an indigene of Ifon Orolu in Osun State during an exclusive

Over 60 people, most of them police, were killed in a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistan police headquarters on Monday, prompting the government to put the country on high alert. The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to former tribal areas along the Afghan border

Nollywood actor, Junior Pope Odonwodo has narrated his experience with armed robbers in Ubulu Okiti, Delta State. The actor took to his Instagram page where he shared the horrible experience which happened on Sunday as they were travelling back home from a movie set. “Last night while coming back from work I was robbed at