The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has extended for six months its contracts with private companies to swap crude oil for petroleum products, Reuters reported on Wednesday. In August last year, the NNPC announced the winners of its 2019/2020 contracts for the exchange of crude oil for imported petroleum products. It […]
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The Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, interred the remains of Lance Corporal Benjamin Collins, who was tortured to death by three senior officers at the Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, in 2017. Collins was buried with full military honours at the Guards Brigade cemetery along Kubwa Expressway by soldiers from the Army Headquarters […]
William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist who was the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Gates died Monday at his beach home in Washington state from Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced Tuesday, CBS News reports. In an obituary, the family credited the patriarch with […]
The naira continued its downward trend, as it exchanged for the dollars at N460 in the parallel market on Tuesday, despite the resumption of forex sales to the Bureau de Change Operators. The naira had earlier dropped from N480/$ following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s announcement to resume forex sales […]
The Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State, Chris Nehikhare, has said the refusal of a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to endorse the party’s candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu, is a plus for Governor Godwin Obaseki. Obaseki is the standard […]
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday upheld the conviction and the 14 years imprisonment imposed on a pastor, Basil Princewill, for raping a 14-year-old girl. The pastor with the appellation of ‘Apostle’ was also said to have attempted to abort the pregnancy resulting from the sexual scam. A […]
The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has set up an eight-member disciplinary committee to consider cases of party members who have refused to withdraw cases filed against the party and its leaders in court. This was made known by the APC State Director of Media and Publicity, […]
THE Senate on Tuesday reviewed the nation’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and submitted that the European style adopted by the Presidential Task Force, which is coordinating the exercise, was killing Nigeria’s economy. But the National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, said poverty was the strongest weapon used […]
The Lagos State Examinations Board has announced new dates for examination into the Lagos State Model Colleges and the Basic Education Certificate. A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Supo Gbadegesin, said the computer-based testing version of the screening test would take place from September 26 to 30, […]
