The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on the State of Refineries in the Country has said the Federal Government spent a total sum of over N11 trillion on rehabilitating refineries from 2010 to date. Chairman of the committee, Ganiyu Johnson, however, failed to convince the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, who chaired the Committee of […]

A team from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority on Tuesday carried out a raid on filling stations in Osogbo, where they sealed a filling station in the Olaiya area for hoarding fuel despite instruction by the agency to dispense the product. During the raid in the capital city of Osun state, they […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Ogun State Command have seized 222.42 Kilograms of cannabis, popularly known as marijuana  at various drug joints in Ogun State. The operatives also seized 40 bottles of codeine weighing a total of 0.4 litres after invading the drug joints in  Abeokuta, the state capital. The Commander of […]

Members of the Plateau State House of Assembly on Tuesday held their plenary after two months of the closure of the Assembly complex by the police. The resumption of the Assembly members came barely 24 hours after  Caleb Mutfwang succeeded  Simon Lalong as the new Governor of the state. It was learnt that the embattled […]

Tinubu, Shettima critics will be disappointed, say support groups  Friday Olokor The Director-General of the Conference of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima National Support Groups, Eniola Ehinafe, has said that the new administration will disappoint its critics by improving the nation’s economy beyond expectations. Ehinafe stated that both the president and his vice are […]

The May 30th sit-at-home call by the Indigenous People of Biafra to remember the Biafra heroes that died during the civil war and those who died in the course of the struggle recorded total compliance with the residents of Anambra State staying indoors on Tuesday. Our correspondent, who visited the major cities of Onitsha, Nnewi, […]

The President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has directed the Department of State Security Service to immediately vacate the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Ikoyi, Lagos. The order is coming hours after DSS officials stormed the EFCC office located on Awolowo Road in the early hours of Tuesday, preventing officials of the anti-graft […]

Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, on Tuesday, expressed his readiness to fight drug abuse and phone theft, alongside other social crimes in the state. He pledged his readiness while constituting a Special Joint Taskforce against phone snatching and other crimes within the Kano metropolis. In his remarks during his visit to Kiru Reformatory Centre, […]

Gunmen suspected to be cultists on Monday night killed four persons in Rundele community, Emohua Local Government area of Rivers State. Two of the victims’ heads were also beheaded. It was gathered that the two persons beheaded are members of a local vigilante group known as the Rundele Security and Peace Advisory Council. Although details […]

The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 78 suspects linked to an attempt to cause trouble in the state following the dissolution of the Park Management System by the state government. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, in a statement, said the state Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, while parading […]