The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has further increased pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol, from N537 to N617 per litre. This is the second increase following the official removal of petrol subsidy by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his inaugural speech in May, when the pump price first jerked…
The Osun State House of Assembly has approved a bill that changes the name of the state back to “Osun State” from the previous “State of Osun.” The bill, called the “Osun State Anthem, Crest and Flag Amendment Bill 2023,” received positive feedback from the Assembly and was passed during Monday’s session. The Speaker of…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asserts that the threat contained in the written address by lawyers to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) is a pre-emptive move to intimidate the judiciary. The statement by the lawyers in the said written address threatening crisis and…
An High court sitting in Ikire, Osun State has sentenced Philip Segun of Cherubim and Cherabuim Church, Solution Chapel, Ikoyi-Ile over the killing of Lagos State University final year student, Favour Daley-Oladele. The court also sentenced her boyfriend, Owolabi Adeeko, 23, to death by hanging for the brutal murder of the final year Sociology student…
Celebrating his 89th birthday, renowned Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, made three demands of the Federal Government. He called for the reopening of unresolved cases of religious killings, the imposition of visa bans on those promoting religious violence, and the creation of a public holiday for traditionalists. Soyinka’s appeal was motivated by…
A food seller and house wife, Mrs Esther Godwin, has been arrested by Ondo police command for allegedly pouring hot water on a nursing mother, Samuel Endurance, who she accused of having an affair with her husband. Esther was arrested last weekend after luring her husband’s alleged lover to their residence at Olofin community of…
Russia has accused the West of putting commercial interests ahead of humanitarian ones with regards to the grain deal Russia has notified the UN, Turkey and Ukraine that it will not renew a crucial deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the agreements had reached a…
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested one suspect, Duhu Nelson Sylvester in connection with the murder of a serving Councilor in the State. It was reported that the lawmaker, who represented Eha-Ulo ward in Nsukka Local Government Legislative Council was murdered in his community on Sunday night. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Enugu…
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, on Sunday, July 16, rescued seven motherless children from an orphanage home in the Aguda area of the state that was engulfed by a domestic fire. The agency in a statement released said it received a distress call at about 2.43pm and in a swift response, successfully rescued…
The Deputy National Chairman (North) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abubakar Kyari, has emerged as the party’s National Chairman. Kyari succeeded Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the party’s chairman after a National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja on Monday. Briefing reporters after the NWC meeting, Kyari formally announced the resignation of Adamu and…
