The federal government, on Sunday, handed over 64 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to representatives of organised labour, comprising Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). The gesture was in commemoration of the country’s 64th independence anniversary. The government also vowed to ensure that the downward trend

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has disclosed that the subsidy on petrol if it was not ‘removed’ by President Bola Tinubu, would have cost the country a whopping N5.4 trillion by the end of 2024. Abiodun noted that it would have been disastrous for Nigeria to pay such a huge amount on subsidy on

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, has said his counterpart in the Federal  Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is responsible for his appointment in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet. Lokpobiri made this known on Saturday at an event organised in honour of Wike by the Ijaw Peoples Congress in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has said the security challenges bedevilling Africa were directly linked to poverty, with over 50 per cent of the population multi-dimensionally poor. Speaking at the weekend in Athens, the Greek capital, at an international dialogue of global leaders that

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olanrewaju Ishola, has said the Force will not take it lightly with troublemakers during the proposed Independence Day protest on October 1. This is just as the federal government has declared Tuesday, October 1, 2024, a public holiday to commemorate the nation’s 64th Independence anniversary. Ishola at the weekend

Over 30,000 ex-agitators from the Niger Delta region have thrown their weights behind the President Bola Tinubu’s administration, distancing themselves from the protest slated for October 1 to give the present administration more time to tackle the nation’s challenges. They resolved that their position was anchored on the belief that the present administration has been

Nigeria loses approximately 50 per cent of its agricultural products along the food supply chain, according to Ibrahim Ishaka, a Food System and Nutrition Specialist with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. Ishaka revealed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of an FAO-organised

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an automobile spare parts dealer Ejiofor Chiwuzie over attempt to export consignments of heroin and loud, a strain of cannabis, concealed in LED rechargeable lamps and sofa metal legs through the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. A statement on Sunday

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the federal government to stop the alleged victimisation of its members across public universities in the country. The union called on governments at all levels, especially the federal government, to fulfil all its agreements with the union to enable public universities to breathe. Speaking while

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mr. Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe as director-general and global liaison for the Nigeria-China strategic partnership reached by the two countries during the President’s visit in early September.  In a release issued on Sunday by the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy,  Bayo Onanuga, Tegbe, a 1988 first-class civil engineering