The two Vice Presidents of Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel) will retire next after serving for over four and three decades. Multiple sources in the church, including a pastor in the church, who requested anonymity due to a lack of authorisation to speak to the press, confirmed the planned retirement

•Marketers accuse NNPCL of inflating Dangote petrol price, MEMAN continues loading subsidised PMS  The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has threatened to stop operations nationwide following the high cost of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, sold to IPMAN members by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. IPMAN revealed on Thursday that the

The Federal Government has granted permission to petroleum marketers to lift petrol directly from the Dangote refinery without going through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. This confirms the speculation that the NNPC will no longer be the sole off-taker of the Dangote fuel. In a statement on Friday, the Minister of Finance and Chairman

The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party shows no signs of resolution, as the integrity faction on Friday announced the appointment of Yayari Ahmed Mohammed as acting National Chairman. In the early hours of Friday, the National Working Committee, led by acting National Chairman Umar Damagum, suspended National Legal Adviser Kamaldeen Ajibade SAN and National

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s handling of the fuel subsidy crisis, referring to him as “TPain” in a tweet on Thursday. Atiku attributed the current economic challenges facing Nigeria to what he described as the “haphazard and disingenuous approach” of the Tinubu administration to fuel subsidy management. In his statement,

The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday, affirmed Martin Amaewhule as the recognised Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the appeal filed by the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, for lacking in merit. The appellate court firmly upheld the

First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Thursday, recalled the beautiful landscape on the campus of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State, while she was a student of the institution. Mrs Tinubu, who said over the years, the green landscape on the campus has been largely eroded, demanded urgent efforts towards regeneration of the environment

An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has vouched for a Bauchi senator, Shehu Umar Buba. The group said the allegation made against him should be ignored because it is politically motivated. MURIC spoke on Wednesday, 9th October, 2024 through its Founder and Executive Director, Ishaq Akintola. He said: “The governor of Bauchi

Fuji singer Taye Currency has apologised to his colleague, Wasiu Pasuma, over a remark he made about the latter during a recent performance. In a video shared on the Oyo Affairs Instagram page, Taye Currency disapproved of fans referring to Pasuma as his ‘father’ in the music industry. The Ibadan-born singer stated that Pasuma is

The Swiss Federation has donated €1.2 million (euros) to the Borno State Flood Disaster Relief Fund to provide much-needed support to the victims of the flood disaster in the state. The donation was announced by the Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, Nicolas Lang, who led a delegation of the Swiss Embassy on a sympathy visit to