Otunba T.J Abass 
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, promised to strengthen its partnership with oil marketers on the platform of Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, to ensure seamless supply of petroleum products. A statement in Abuja by Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mr. Maikanti Baru, said the corporation, as the supplier of … Read more
The world’s largest single train 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Petroleum Refinery is expected to produce 65.4 million litres of Petrol (PMS), Diesel (AGO), Aviation Jet fuel, and Kerosene (DPK) daily, when it becomes operational. This high volume of petroleum products from the Dangote Refinery will transform Nigeria from a petrol … Read more
Persons With Disabilities, PWDs, yesterday, asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recruit its members as ad hoc staff in future polls, saying they deserved to play active role in the country’s electioneering processes. The disabled persons, speaking on the platform of Inclusive Friends Association, IFA, and Convener, Access Nigeria campaign, argued that … Read more
Professor Jerry Gana has said he will convene a consultative meeting with leaders, members and his supporters in Social Democratic Party, SDP, to determine his next step in his political career. He also appealed to them to remain calm and law abiding following Friday’s Supreme Court’s judgment declaring that former Cross River State governor, … Read more
The Police Service Commission, PSC, has approved the promotion of 8,916 senior Police Officers to their next substantive ranks to fill existing vacancies. A statement by the commission by Ikechukwu Ani, Head of Press and Information, said the promotions were the high points of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the Commission held … Read more
Despite having been quizzed some of their key officials over financial matters running into billions of Naira, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said, yesterday, that it had not raised any team to probe outgoing Ogun, Imo and Zamfara state governors over alleged graft. Media reports on Sunday had claimed that Ibekunle Amosun, … Read more
Data compiled by Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, has classified Nigerians as the sixth “most miserable people in the world.” The Misery Index was calculated using economic indices including unemployment, inflation and bank lending rates. Venezuela, Argentina and Iran, the countries which topped the index, had high inflation … Read more
To make the State House Medical Centre perform optimally, the Presidency will turn it into a clinic. However, some staffers at the State House are kicking against the proposal, alleging that the idea was to privatise the centre and make cost of medical services unaffordable. But the Permanent Secretary, State House, Jalal Arabi, said the … Read more
Two bike riders narrowly escaped death, yesterday, as a trailer conveying baskets of tomatoes fell on them at the City Gate along Suleja-Minna Road, Minna, Niger State Capital. The injured trailer driver, Danjuma Mohammed, was taking the baskets of tomatoes to Kure Market, Minna, from Plateau State, when the incident occured. The … Read more
Four members of a gang that robbed, snatched exotic cars and kidnapped people have been sentenced to death by hanging by a Delta State High Court in Asaba. Justice Flora Azinge convicted four out of the five defendants on all nine charges brought against them and accordingly sentenced them to death by … Read more
Troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region have killed senior Boko Haram Commander and 15 of his men in a gun fight. The soldiers, with the help of Air Force aircraft, destroyed five gun trucks belonging to the terrorists. Col. Timothy Antigha, spokesman of the task … Read more
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, AGF, of the Federation, Abubakar Malami(SAN), of involvement in plots aimed at scuttling the collation of results of Rivers State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and has, therefore asked him to steer clear of the state. The party … Read more
The fourth student, this time the Senior Prefect, has fallen to his death from a mango tree while trying to get a fruit for a teacher in a school in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Last Saturday, Temitayo Oluwole, the Senior Secondary school, SSS, 3 student of a government school, Ijo Mimo High School, fell from … Read more
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, said that he survived the helicopter crash in Kogi State in February saved many people, both in and outside of government, the trouble of explaining their roles in conspiracy theories that would have followed, otherwise. Professor Osinbajo stated this at a thanksgiving service for the elections victory of … Read more
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has warned airline operators and pilots to obey weather predictions by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, as the country is moving gradually to the early raining season, characterised by thunder storms. The warning was contained in an Advisory Circular, AC, with reference no AC: NCAA-AEROMET – 27 … Read more
Lagos State Government has condemned the use of prisons as rehabilitation centre for convicted children in the country, maintained that sending children to prison affects their mental health due to the conditions they are often subjected to. Director, Office of the Public Defender, Lagos State, Mrs. Olayinka Adeyemi, faulted the act during a … Read more
A 34-year-old furniture maker, Seye Yinka, has said as a cult leader, he needed a gun and that was why he bought a gun for N30,000. According to him, “I use the gun to protect myself any time there is cult violence in Oworoshoki and Bariga communities. “I am a cult leader, … Read more
A bus transporting illegally-bunkered fuel in Ejigbo area of Lagos State was intercepted by operatives of the Anti-Crime Unit attached to the Lagos State Police Command, at Canoe area of Ejigbo, with one of the three suspects, Wasiu Oyewole, arrested. The operatives led by Sergeant Sunday Joseph suspected the bus which was painted … Read more
The inmates of Kirikiri Medium Prisons, Lagos, enjoyed some largesse when a voluntary organisation, Health Emergency Initiative, HEI, vsited them bearing drugs and other medical materials. HEI Project Officer, Olayinka Layi-Adeite, said: “We visited the prison and the Matron in charge of the clinic told us some of their needs and as an … Read more
Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has hailed the Appeal Court judgment in the case between the Agency and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, Limited over levies payable to the maritime regulator, saying it has re-affirmed confidence in the judiciary. The Court of Appeal … Read more