Thursday, December 26, 2024

Local News

Akwa Ibom Governor announces ₦80,000 minimum wage

The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, has announced that the State Government will pay a new minimum wage of ₦80,000 for...

Kwara senator debunks drug-related allegations by NDLEA

Senator Oyelola Ashiru’s office has described as “wrong and fallacious” allegations by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), indicting him as being in...

Bandits kill three, abduct two rice farmers in Niger

Three persons were killed and two rice farmers were abducted in a bandit attack on Sunday in the Mariga Local Government Area of Niger...

LG bill: Lagos Assembly invites Attorney-General for interpretation of Supreme Court judgement

The lawmakers have also resolved to hold a second public hearing on a bill aimed at reviewing the Local Government Administration Law of the...

Court fixes date for commencement of ex-Kwara gov’s trial

Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court has fixed December 3, 2024, for the commencement of the trial of the immediate past...

Hardship: Daily petrol consumption crashes by 92% under Tinubu — report

Daily consumption of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol in Nigeria has dropped drastically under one year after President Bola Tinubu assumed office on...

NERC blames transformer explosion for Saturday’s National grid collapse

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has attributed the recent national grid collapse to the explosion of a transformer at the Jebba Transmission station. Several...

Tinubu returns to Nigeria after working leave

President Bola Tinubu arrived back in the country as the plane he was on landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on...