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The management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced a reduction in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, from ₦890 to N825 per litre, effective from 27th February 2025. The slash in price by ₦65.00 was announced in a statement on Wednesday by the refinery.   According to the statement, […]

For far too long, the Igbos in Nigeria have borne the unbearable weight of systemic marginalization, political disenfranchisement, economic deprivation, and historical distortion – all perpetuated by a deliberate, malicious and grotesque falsehood that has finally been debunked and shattered. The recent revelations by former military ruler, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), exonerating the Igbo […]

Nigeria took a step closer on Monday to conducting a new national population and housing census with biometric and digital components. The nation last held a census in November 2006.   President Bola Tinubu, at a meeting at the Statehouse with officials of the National Population Commission (NPC), said he would set up a committee […]

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has enough Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, in storage to sufficiently meet the local needs of Nigeria, according to the President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote.   Speaking at the weekend, Dangote disclosed that the oil refinery has “more than half a billion litres of petroleum and over […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed over 11,000 shops and arrested 40 individuals in its ongoing nationwide clampdown on fake and substandard medicines.   Briefing journalists on Saturday in Lagos, NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the enforcement had been planned for over a year as a […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has justified its recent crackdown on fake drugs across the country and dismissed claims that the organisation was against businesses.    NAFDAC’s recent crackdown on fake drugs saw it raiding markets and shops where these substances were discovered.  That has triggered condemnation from some […]

Call it poetic justice, cosmic irony, or plain old karma – the universe appears to have delivered swift retribution to former military president Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB). Less than 24 hours after launching his long-awaited autobiography, A Journey in Service, pirated copies flooded WhatsApp and social media platforms, spreading faster than the annulment of the […]

Thirty-two years after plunging Nigeria into political turmoil and moral darkness, former military president General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has finally conceded the undeniable truth: Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola won the June 12, 1993, presidential election—the freest, fairest, and most unifying election in Nigeria’s history. Yet, in a stunning display of arrogance and […]

The House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, has said that none of the 31 requests it received for state creation met the constitutional requirements.   The chairman of the committee, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, who doubles as the Deputy Speaker of the House, disclosed this during a two-day retreat for members […]

  The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of $4.7 million, ₦830 million, and multiple properties linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.   Justice Yellim Bogoro in a judgment delivered on Friday also ordered the final forfeiture of investments worth $900,000 traced to […]

Senate spokesman, Yemi Adaramodu, on Friday, faulted the action of his colleague, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, over a seating arrangement dispute in the hallowed chamber.   Natasha, who represents Kogi Central under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had on Thursday, refused to use the seat allocated to her, citing Order 10 of the Senate Standing Rules, which […]