Ogun disburses N500m quarterly gratuity to pensioners 

River State chapter of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) and Nollywood practitioners, yesterday, paid a solidarity visit to Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, seeking support for the family of late Precious Chimaobi Ofurum, popularly known as Junior Pope, who is an indigene of the state. 

Less than two weeks after a peaceful election of its officials, a leadership crisis may have erupted in the AlaIgbo Development Foundation (ADF), as its founding National President, Emeritus Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, yesterday, announced the suspension of eleven officials of the organisation

Stakeholders in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta region have picked holes in the global call for an energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy, saying that the process and intentions of the West should be interrogated before African countries embrace it hook, line and sinker.

A Governorship aspirant of the Labour Party (LP), Kenneth Imansuangbon, yesterday, asked the court to bar the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) or any other agent from recognising Olumide Akpata as the governorship candidate of the party for the September 21 Edo governorship election.

The leadership of the Ijaw Youths Network (IYN) has called on President Bola Tinubu to ignore sponsored media attacks on the productive pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Tantita Security Services Limited by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, commended the Dangote Petroleum Refinery over a reduction in the price of diesel from N1,200 to N1,000. 

The Federal Government has opposed the conditions submitted by the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for the resumption of his trial.

Abdulazeez Ganduje, the eldest son of the suspended national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, paid a visit to the chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhyi Rimingado, at his office. Mr. Abdulazeez visited Mr. Rimingado on Wednesday evening to show his support for the chairman's anti-corruption efforts.…

NATIONAL Coordinator of presidential Unlocking Healthcare Value-Chain initiative, domiciled under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Abdu Mukhtar, has disclosed that Nigeria imports 70 per cent pharmaceuticals, 99 per cent medical devices and 100 per cent vaccines.   Mukhtar, in his presentation, yesterday, at the 11th Medic West Africa exhibition in Lägos, healthcare…

The Nigerian Army said it will probe the two soldiers allegedly involved in a reported case of theft at the Dangote Refinery in Lagos. Army spokesman, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Onyema said the Army is deeply concerned about the alleged involvement of two of its personnel in the…