Category: Breaking News
FG approves $750m World Bank loan for rural electrification
22 May 2024
The Federal Government has approved a $750m World Bank funding for the construction of 1,200 mini-grids in rural communities across Nigeria. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency, Abba Aliyu, disclosed this Tuesday, May 21, at a forum in Lagos. According to Aliyu, the loan was approved to close the gap between […]
Continue ReadingLabour Rejects FG’s Fresh ₦54,000 Wage Offer, Talks Continue Wednesday
22 May 2024
The tripartite minimum wage negotiation meeting involving Organised Labour, the federal and state governments, and the Organized Private Sector, OPS, yesterday ended in deadlock, following Labour’s dismissal of the government’s N54,000 offer as expected. Labour leaders also lamented the absence of state governors in the meeting to present their offers, as their representatives said they […]
Continue ReadingSowore slams Nigerian Army for shutting Banex Plaza in Abuja over soldiers, traders’ clash
22 May 2024
Rights activist and the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has condemned the action of the Nigerian Army to close the Banex Plaza in Abuja. Posting on his X account on Tuesday, Sowore said the act was a repression of the civilian spaces by soldiers, and that it should be stopped. […]
Continue ReadingCross River State Assembly members impeach Speaker, Ayambem
22 May 2024
The Cross River State House of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Elvert Anyambem, has been impeached. It was learnt that Hon Ayambem was impeached in the early hours of Wednesday by his colleagues over alleged gross misconduct and administrative high handedness. The plot to remove Anyambem has been on for months as members have been expressing misgivings […]
Continue ReadingObi, Atiku desperate, not to be trusted with power – APC
22 May 2024
The All Progressives Congress, on Tuesday, dismissed the potential merger talk between the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar and the standard-bearer of the Labour Party in the election, Peter Obi. It described Atiku and Obi as desperate politicians who could not be trusted with power. The ruling party also […]
Continue ReadingPastor refuse to return ₦900,000 mistakenly transferred into his account by church member
21 May 2024
An unidentified male pastor allegedly refused to return N900,000 mistakenly transferred to his account by a church member, as seen ina viral video circulating social media. The male church member explained in the social media post that has since gone viral that he accidentally transferred N1,000,000 to the pastor instead of the intended N100,000. Upon […]
Continue ReadingArmy provides update on closure of Banex Plaza
21 May 2024
The Nigerian Army has provided an update on the temporary closure of Banex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja, following a recent incident where soldiers were brutally attacked by yet-to-be-identified hoodlums. In a press statement issued on Monday via X by the Director of Army Public Relations, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Army shed light on the […]
Continue ReadingAlleged backstabbing: Sarah Martins queries Yul Edochie
21 May 2024
Nollywood actresses, Sarah Martins has dragged her colleague, Yul Edochie for making unfounded claims about the late Junior Pope betraying him before his passing. You may recall that Yul Edochie previously explained his absence from Junior Pope’s funeral, attributing it to claims that Junior Pope had betrayed him multiple times while he was alive. In […]
Continue ReadingSister of SAN released by kidnappers
21 May 2024
A sister to Ahmed Raji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Seliat Raji, who was kidnapped in Iseyin, Iseyin Local Government Area of Oyo State has been released, on Tuesday, after six days in captivity. It was reports that the gunmen, on Thursday night, invaded her residence and killed a security guard who was said to […]
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