A 28-year-old internet fraudster from Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State has voluntarily surrendered to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Benin. The EFCC made this known in a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) account, @officialEFCC, at 4:31 PM on Thursday. According to the agency, the man turned himself in…
Political Phenomenon refers to the activities within an organization aimed at acquiring, developing, and utilizing power and resources to achieve desired outcomes. It encompasses both negative and positive aspects of political behavior in organizational settings. It’s obvious politics had been limited to individual countries’ social policy, economic and political system, and it did not take…
The House of Representatives has requested President Bola Tinubu to confer the same national honour on its Speaker Abbas Tajudeen, as was conferred on Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The House rejected the description of being the “lower chamber” compared to the Senate, stating that Messrs Akpabio and Tajudeen are “first among equals.” It also…
The federal government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has threatened to shut down any filling stations profiteering from Nigerians by selling Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, as high as N1,000 per litre. The NMDPRA alleged that several filling stations operated by independent marketers, have raised their prices…
The decomposing body of Fatima Salihu Muhammad, a 24-year-old resident of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi Staff Quarters, who was declared missing about five days earlier has been discovered in a maize farm. Fatima disappeared last Wednesday after she was sent to buy groceries from Birshin Fulani, a community laying just separated from Fatima’s residence by a…
President Bola Tinubu has formally received two senators who recently joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), further strengthening the ruling party’s presence in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday evening led Senator Kaila Samaila Dahuwa of Bauchi North and Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe of Cross…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced another reduction in its petrol gantry price, lowering the ex-depot rate from N828 to N699 per litre. Market figures released on Friday by Petroleumprice.ng showed that the refinery carried out a fresh downward adjustment, cutting the Premium Motor Spirit benchmark by N129 per litre — a 15.58 per cent…
Peter Obi, former Anambra governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has raised alarm over Nigeria’s growing debt profile, warning that the government is mortgaging the future of unborn generations through unsustainable and unaccountable borrowing. In a statement issued on Monday, Obi described as worrisome the Senate’s recent approval of additional external…
The Nigerian gospel film industry is mourning the loss of one of its prominent figures, Moses Korede Are, popularly known as “Baba Gbenro” from the popular Mount Zion series Abattoir. The actor’s death was announced by his colleague, Oluwaseun Adejumobi, who shared the sad news on his verified Instagram account on Thursday. Adejumobi wrote, “Heaven’s…
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that he will now be the one to defend himself in his ongoing trial for terrorism. He is currently facing a seven-count charge of terrorism, filed against him by the Federal Government. The IPOB leader…
