The Yobe State Hisbah Commission has seized and destroyed 51 cartons of alcohol and 18 jerrycans of methylene chloride, commonly known as Madarar Sukurdai, from different parts of the state. This action followed the state’s laws and Islamic values, which do not allow the sale or use of alcohol and other intoxicating substances. The chairman…
A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Buba Galadima, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu helped his daughter to get a job at the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission. Galadima, a stalwart in the Kwankwasiyya movement, made the revelation on Wednesday during an appearance on a programme on AIT. The NNPP chieftain stated that…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has formally petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, seeking an investigation into an alleged assassination plot made against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In a petition dated April 3, 2025, Akpabio denied the serious accusation and called for the prosecution of Akpoti-Uduaghan for criminal defamation. The petition, which was…
The Dangote refinery has informed marketers and its customers of a downward review of its ex-gantry loading cost to N865 per litre. The new price is a reduction of N15 from N880 per litre sold by the facility on Wednesday. Our correspondent gathered that the refinery informed its customers in a notice sent out on…
Security guards have foil and arrested a 35-year-old man, Musa Ibrahim of Maduganari area, Maiduguri, for attempting to gain unlawful access into the private residence of Senator Kashim Shettima, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred on April 9 at about 0530hrs at the…
Jimmy Odukoya, the senior pastor of the Fountain of Life church, says God instructed him not to cut his dreadlocks. In a recent sermon, the cleric, who succeeded his late father Taiwo Odukoya, recalled how he sought divine clarity about his appearance before resuming pastoral duties at the church. He said his sister had raised…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Kemi Olunloyo, daughter of former Oyo Governor Chief Omololu Olunloyo, has denounced the family name. According to her, she was also not accepting condolences over the demise of her father, who passed away on Sunday, April 6 at 89. The social media personality disclosed some events which took place in the…
Central American migrants in the United States sent home around 20 percent more in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, official data showed this week, a trend economists said reflected their fear of deportation by President Donald Trump’s administration. Nearly one-quarter of the GDP of impoverished Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua is made…
Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo said this yesterday while kick-starting President Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign in the state. Another member of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 24-member House of Assembly, Kaycee Osamwonyi, the representative of Uhunmwonde Constituency, who is a member of House Committee on Budget and Appropriation, yesterday defected to…
Chairman of Transcorp Group, Mr Tony Elumelu, has said that Nigeria’s ambition to build a $1tn economy cannot be realised without urgent and sustained efforts to address challenges in the country’s electricity sector. Elumelu, who spoke on Wednesday at the company’s Annual General Meeting held in Abuja, said access to reliable power remains the single…