The increase in the pump price of petrol has become imminent as Brent crude oil, against which Nigeria’s oil is benchmarked, was up $1.10, or 1.7 per cent, closing at $66.34 a barrel yesterday. It had earlier hit a high of $66.79 mainly prompted by optimism over the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and lower output. The […]

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to post former service chiefs to neighbouring countries as ambassadors. Lawan stated this after the Senate at plenary confirmed the ex-service chiefs as ambassadors-designate. The former service chiefs confirmed are Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin (retd), Ekiti; Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd), Borno; […]

The Senate yesterday directed its Committee on Basic Education to carry out a holistic investigation into what happened to the over N2 billion budgeted for the Safe School Initiative (SSI) program, with a view to bringing to book the culprits. The upper legislative chamber also urged the federal government to collaborate with the various state […]

A  former Osun State House of Assembly, Minority Leader, Akinwale Akinwole, on Monday, urged the Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to accept Senator Iyiola Omisore as a member of the All Progressives Congress. Akinwale, who left Peoples Democratic Party while serving as a member of the State House of Assembly, in 2015, to join […]

THE Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress, Mr Ade Ajayi, on Monday said there were no errand boys in the state chapter of the APC. Ajayi said this in response to a statement credited to the Special Adviser to the President, on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu. The presidential aide was quoted as […]

Justice C.J. Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos has granted permission to a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to travel abroad for further medical treatment. Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged fraud of N2.2bn. Justice Aneke permitted Fayose to travel abroad for treatment […]

The police have recovered two rocket launchers, 196,311 ammunition and 5,752 firearms between January 2019 and January 2021, THISDAY’s investigation has revealed. The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) had stated recently that of the 857 million Small and Light Weapons (SALW) in circulation globally and the 12 billion rounds of ammunition produced annually, […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said on Monday that the Federal Government’s National Gas Expansion Programme was expected to lift over 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. Sylva said the programme was “a practical demonstration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by using […]

The newly promoted Deputy Inspectors General of Police, Tijani Baba, Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim, and Moses A. Jitoboh, were Monday decorated with their new ranks. The trio were decorated at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. A statement by Force Spokesman and Commisioner of Police, Frank Mba, said their promotion and subsequent decoration became necessary following the retirement […]

THE Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State says the All Progressives Congress is deceiving its members take part in its registration and membership exercise. The Spokesman for the PDP, Ogubundu Nwadike, in a statement, on Sunday, said while some persons were being promised with a share of the recovered Abacha loot, others were told pointedly […]