Obidients
23 Jan
In the 2023 elections Peter Obi pulled off what must count as a major miracle in Nigerian politics. He led an erstwhile politically irrelevant and perennially underperforming Labour party platform that managed to garner only 5,074 votes nationwide in the 2019 presidential election to a 6,101,533 vote tally in the 2023 presidential elections – a…
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The United Kingdom has once again calmed the frayed nerves of Nigerians on visa issuance by assuring the country of its continuous effort
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The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) is proposing a sectorised strategy as part of its crisis management efforts, particularly
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The Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has announced that the Port Harcourt Refinery will sell premium motor spirit (PMS) at N1,030 per litre. The association confirmed that the refinery is operational, as claimed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). In a statement on Thursday night, PETROAN spokesman Joseph Obele…
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed that the Federal Government's annual electricity subsidy surged to N2.4 trillion in 2024, a sharp rise from N650 billion in 2023. The commission attributed the significant increase to persistent inefficiencies in the electricity sector, despite the introduction of the Band A tariff service category. The initiative, aimed…
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An Abuja-based lawyer, Mr Bala Dakum, has recounted the harrowing ordeal of his 85-year-old father, Deh Idi Dakum, who was kidnapped and murdered in Matelem village, Bokkos Local Council of Plateau State, despite the family paying a ransom.
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The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has disbursed N5.3 billion to about 95,000 Nigerian pilgrims who performed the 2023 Hajj exercise. While N4,479,362,880 was remitted to States' Pilgrims' Welfare Boards
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Petroleum economists and former Director of the Centre for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law (CPEEL), University of Ibadan (UI), Prof Adeola Adenikinju, has urged the Federal Government to come out clean and tell Nigerians the true situation of the Port Harcourt Refinery.
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As part of efforts to empower young girls and women in Nigeria, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Generation Unlimited
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Mele Kyari has pulled it through after all! One of the public refineries has roared back to life after all. The Port Harcourt is fixed and about 200 tankers have rumbled through the forests and through the highways
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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the achievements of Governor Ademola Adeleke in the last two years, contending that his administration had taken the state back to the primitive age through dismal performance.