The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to transit from fossil fuel to renewable energy to reduce costs of telecom services. The Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, said on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at...
The Federal Government (FG) has postponed the 2023 population and housing census earlier slated for March 29 to May. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the declaration while speaking with State House correspondents at the end of...
The Rivers State chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Rescue Movement (NRM), Accord, Action Alliance (AA), and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) have accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of an alleged plot to rig Saturday’s...
The Imo State Police Command has invited a former governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, his deputy, Gerald Iron, and the spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) and House of Representatives member-elect, Ikenga Ugochinyere, for alleged...
The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, sentenced a man, Stephen Francis, to life imprisonment for defiling an 11-year-old primary five pupil in his room. The presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 21.91 per cent on a year-on-year basis in February 2023. This was contained in the NBS Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for February 2023 released...
Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, well known as Davido, has deleted the majority of his posts on Instagram, leaving only three. Checks on Davido’s Instagram account on Wednesday revealed that the famous singer deleted the posts, including his profile picture. The...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says the foreign airlines’ funds trapped in Nigeria have risen to $743.7 million from $662 million. The IATA, while appealing to the Federal Government (FG) on the resolution of airlines’ trapped funds, said the...
The operatives of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a 45-year-old man, Ojo Akerele, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl in Idoani, Ose Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, who disclosed this in an...
By PROMISE ADIELE This is not a critical dissection of the recently concluded presidential election in Nigeria, an exercise globally acclaimed as a collective assault on the humanity of Nigerians and their civic beings. That political obscenity, through coordinated acts...