The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said youths constitute the highest number of registered voters, who would vote in the February and March elections with 48 million out of the entire 93.5 million eligible voters. The National Commissioner at INEC in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye, stated this during the … [Read more…]
One person was early Monday killed and many others injured as Yoruba Nation agitators clashed with policemen in the Ojota area of Lagos State. A police patrol vehicle was burnt by the protesting agitators who also destroyed some campaign vehicles of the All Progressives Congress (APC) . The situation became very tensed as the agitators … [Read more…]
The founder of DAAR Communications Limited, owners of AIT Radio and Television, Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been released by the United Kingdom police. Dokpesi was arrested yesterday at Heathrow Airport in London. Media sources had it that Dokpesi was delayed on Sunday by Immigration after a trip from Frankfurt on a Lufthansa airlines flight that … [Read more…]
Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pinnacle Oil and Gas Limited, Mr Peter Mbah, has declared that inadequate and lack of investments in the downstream of the oil and gas sector as being responsible for incessant petroleum products’ scarcity being experienced across the country. Of recent, there have been recurring bouts of petroleum products … [Read more…]
Raymond Dokpesi has been arrested in the United Kingdom ahead of a scheduled political meeting with Atiku Abubakar, reports said on Sunday night. Mr Dokpesi, the owner of broadcaster AIT, was picked up at London Heathrow Airport as he touched down from a connecting flight via Frankfurt on Sunday evening, according to The Whistler, which … [Read more…]
The Police has so far rescued five out of the kidnapped victims including a retired police officer who were allegedly abducted on Saturday at the Igueben train station, Edo state. Recall that unspecified numbers of passengers who were waiting to board the train at the Igueben station were kidnapped by gunmen at 4pm on Saturday. … [Read more…]
Nigeria’s oil production in the month of December 2022 grew by 4.2 per cent month-on-month to 1.23 million barrels per day but remained significantly short of the 1.8 million barrels per day allocated to the country by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. Latest oil production data released by Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, … [Read more…]
The federal government has shortlisted 20 candidates for the position of a new and substantive accountant-general of the federation, AGF, according to an online platform, TheCable. The 20 candidates, according to a circular issued by the government, were drawn from ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs. Recall that Ahmed Idris, the former AGF, was arrested in … [Read more…]
Four days after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directed commercial banks to suspend over-the-counter dispensing of the new naira notes and use their Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to ensure wider circulation, compliance level has been abysmally low as customers continue to get the old currency slated to be junked on January 31. Meanwhile, the … [Read more…]
Security agents, comprising the police, vigilance groups and local hunters have commenced the combing the bushes around the Tom Ikimi Train Station in Igueben, Edo State in an effort to rescue 31 passengers and staff of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) kidnapped Saturday evening during an attack on the train station by suspected terrorists. This … [Read more…]
…The desperation of Lucky Chukwu and his notorious cohorts By Ability Chukwuemeka Mbah Waking up this first Saturday morning of this beautiful year 2023 to a video making round our social media spaces of Chief Lucky Chukwu, the elder brother to Enugu East Labour Party Senatorial Candidate, Barr Oyibo Chukwu addressing some of the Party’s … [Read more…]
About 48 days to the presidential election, there are fresh concerns over the perceived harassment by some security agencies of some key figures of government with key responsibilities in the conduct of the polls. Such harassment, it was gathered, might be to force such officials to step down from their positions, an act that might … [Read more…]