Sixteen days after it suffered an oil leak at an oilfield in Nembe, Bayelsam State, the Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company is now seeking foreign technical expertise to halt the ongoing leak. The link occurred on November 5. Aiteo, in...
Nigeria recorded 45 new COVID-19 infections in five states and the FCT on Saturday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) gave the update on Sunday and stated that no death was recorded. It stated that the infection figure indicated an...
Hajiya Mariya Buhari, wife to Katsina Deputy governor, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, has been appointed National women leader of the Tinubu support organisation (TSO). Alhaji Ibrahim Kalla, the Chief Press Secretary to the deputy governor, disclosed this in a statement issued...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a Brazil-based drug dealer, Okafor Okwudili Moses over 2.55 kilograms of cocaine recovered from a toilet at the E-Arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja...
The Lagos State Government has suspended all activities earlier announced for the Greater Lagos Fiesta 2021. The one-month event themed ‘Lagos Rocks’ was to start on December 1st across the five divisions of Lagos – Ikorodu, Ikeja, Badagry, Lagos Island...
No fewer than six start-ups owned by young Nigerians have grown from scratch to billion dollar businesses in recent years, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. Osinbajo said that as at 2021, more than six of such companies had been...
The controversy over who is the largest shareholder in the First Bank of Nigeria Holding Plc continues on Saturday as the National Pension Commission (PenCom) told Tunde Hassan-Odukale that he can’t appropriate the shareholding of pension funds in the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has counselled Nigeria not to delay the removal of subsidies on fuel and electricity. The Fund suggested that removal of fuel subsidy and cost-reflective electricity tariffs must be implemented in early 2022. It noted that the...
Award-winning singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has set up a five-man committee to disburse about N250 million to orphanages across the country. The singer made this known in a statement dated Friday, 19th of November 2021, and released...
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will speak in January 2022 on whether he will be running for president in 2023 or not. Fashola, who...