The latest Consumer Price Index data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics revealed that Kogi, Lagos, and Rivers are the most expensive states to live in, based on inflation rates for August 2023. On a year-on-year basis, Kogi led the way with the highest all-items inflation rate at 31.50 per cent, followed closely by…
The Nasarawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has cautioned Governor Abdullahi Sule against dragging President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, into the politics of the state. In a statement made available to journalists in Lafia on Saturday, the state chairman of the PDP, Chief Francis Orogu,…
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut docked with the International Space Station on Friday after blasting off amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine. Earlier Friday Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft. The…
Governor Ademola Adeleke on Friday at the maiden meeting of the state’s Executive Council meeting issued an extensive performance monitoring template for his cabinet members comprising twenty five commissioners and ten special advisers of cabinet rank. According to a statement signed by commissioner for information, Kolapo Alimi stated that, “At the well attended meeting held…
There was mild drama on Friday when former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a trending video on social media, ordered some Yoruba monarchs to stand up and greet him. Obasanjo who was in Oyo state on the invitation of Governor Seyi Makinde made the remarks during the commissioning of a 34.85 km Oyo-Iseyin Road and the…
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, has said that about 1,200 customers of the company within Osun region had been arrested in the last six months for energy theft related offences. Speaking with journalists in Osogbo on Friday, the IBEDC Senior Communication Officer, Osun region, Kike Owoeye said the company would sustain its clampdown on…
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Olayemi Cardoso as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This is according to a statement from the presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale. “President Bola Tinubu has approved the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso to serve as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),…
Founder of Peace House, Bro Gbile Akanni has sent a stern warning to the newly installed Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye. According to him, the new monarch must refrain from marrying more wives while advising him not to be materialistic in his new position. Akanni, TRIBUNE ONLINE gathered, gave the warning while preaching…
ADA – A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun state, Dele Agboola has been reportedly shot dead by unknown gunmen. The deceased, it was gathered was killed while eating in front of his wife’s shop in Ada, Boripe local government area of the state on Thursday evening. The 42-year-old deceased was killed…
… To woo multinational firms, CEOs on investment options in Nigeria President Bola Tinubu will on Sunday, depart Abuja, to attend the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA in New York, United States of America. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents on…
