Ogaga Ariemu 
The National Bureau of Statistics says the average price of 5kg of cooking gas dropped from N4,642.27 recorded in April 2023 to N4,360.69 in May 2023. NBN disclosed this in its recent “Cooking Gas Price Watch’’ for May 2023. The report said the May 2023 price represented a 6.07 per cent decrease compared to what … Read more
Simon Ekpa, a popular Biafra agitator and Separatist, in an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stated why the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, should be released immediately. Ekpa, the Finland-based lawyer and Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile, disclosed in the Letter on Sunday. He … Read more
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, has appointed Major General A.B Ibrahim, as the Chief of Policy and Plans (COPP). Lagbaja has also approved the appointment of New General Officers Commanding (GOCs) for some of the divisions of the Nigerian army and commandant for the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA). Under the … Read more
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved 103 Public Private Partnerships projects worth N10.8 trillion in 13 years, Manji Yarling, Acting Head of the Media and Publicity Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), disclosed this on Friday in a statement when the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Tharmi Mseleku, led a team of officials on … Read more
The government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu says it would improve power supply across the country amid a planned electricity tariff hike on July 1. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Mr Temitope Fashedemi, disclosed this on Thursday. According to a statement by the Ministry’s spokesperson, Ms Chinwe Udouwem, Fashedemi made the declaration when the … Read more
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has clarified that there is no overlap between the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission. On Tuesday, NMDPRA Chief Executive, Mr Farouk Ahmed, made this known at the General Counsel and Legal Advisers (GCLA) Forum in Abuja. Ahmed, represented by Ogbugo Ukoha, Executive Director, Distribution Systems, Storage and … Read more
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has expressed “total disappointment “over what he described as the “lopsided representation “by the immediate past Minister of State Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba. According to NAN, the Oba said this in a statement in Benin by Mr Iguobaro Osaigbovo, the Chief Press Secretary to the … Read more
The senior pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has urged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to find something else to do instead of waiting for justice at the Election Petition Tribunal. On Sunday, Giwa said while addressing his members in Akure that Obi was only entertaining … Read more
A Federal Government agency, the Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority, said the N8 billion Jattu Dam in Edo will be completed in 2028. Managing Director of Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority, Mr Saliu Ahmed, made the declaration on Saturday at the dam site in Ayoghena, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, during site visitation … Read more
A popular Nigerian politician and elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is best for Nigeria at this time and moment. His statement countered former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent comment that Peter Obi of the Labour Party remained a better presidential candidate Nigeria needed. Yakasai, according to NAN, after meeting with President Tinubu … Read more