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The fight between Bayelsa and Rivers States over the ownership of Soku oil wells has flared up again, pitting the governors against each other.   The two sister states have been at each other’s throat since 2011, when the Soku oil fields in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area were ceded to Bayelsa, an action that Rivers […]

  Nigeria’s  two industrial unions on Monday shelved their planned nationwide strike over the recent hikes in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol.   The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress suspended their plan after a marathon meeting with the government at which government also shelved for wo weeks the new increases. […]

  The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.   Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he […]

Boko Haram fighters on Friday killed at least 24 persons in an ambush  on the volatile Borno State, the Police have said.   Those killed included eight Policemen, part of those leading a convoy of persons displaced from the region who were billed to return to their ancestral land, according the Police, Edet Okon, a […]

Prof Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, who conducted the 2015 election that ushered President Muhammadu Buhari into office, warned on Friday that Nigerians faced an uncertain future.   “I believe that all Nigerians can no longer sit on the fence, as everybody needs to contribute to the cleansing of […]

President on Tuesday inaugurated the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri rail line for commercial operation and ordered that it be extended to the northern and southern part of the country before he leaves office in 2023.   He also directed the Ministry of Transportation to get the nation’s seaports to be linked to the rail line, according […]

A Jos High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which sought to stop Police from investigating him.   Police invited Mailafia for interrogation at the Force Headquarters Abuja, following his claim that some repentant Boko Haram fighters told him that a […]

If the National Assembly passes  a new version of the Petroleum Industry Bill just submitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari,  then  state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Petroleum Products Pricing Agency will be scrapped.   In place of NNPC, the new bill, Petroleum Industry Bill 2020, is proposing the establishment of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his single desire is to make sure that innocent Nigerians don’t suffer regardless of party affiliation. Speaking Friday when Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State led his Deputy, Philip Shuaibu and other party supporters to the State House on a thank-you-visit, President Buhari said: “I thank you for bringing […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared October 1 a sit-at-home day across states in the South-East region, which it described as Biafraland, The Punch repored Thursday.   IPOB stated that the sit-at-home declaration was in solidarity with its Yoruba brothers in the Diaspora agitating for Oduduwa Republic.   It said the decision was to […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday approved a $1,959,744,723.71 contract for a rail line that would link the country with Niger Republic.   Approval for the rail line was given at the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, according to Rotimi Amaechi, minister of Transportation, who spoke to State House correspondents at the end of the […]

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered an investigation into the alleged rape and  murder of Ifeoma Abugu, a graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu.    DSP Anjuguri Manzah, spokesman for the command,  said the FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma, had ordered a discreet investigation and post-mortem on […]