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No, I’m Not a Sex Worker: Mandy Kiss Responds to Public Claims

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

Lagos Anti-Drug Ambassador and influencer, Mandy Kiss has clarified her provocative online persona is just content creation for trending, not a reflection of her real, reserved self. Mandy, via a video on X, emotionally addressed misconceptions, denying being a s3x worker or drug user, and revealed her absence was due...

Stop chasing clout with Nnamdi Kanu’s name, APC chieftain tackles Gov Otti

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

… Questions Otti’s alleged N54bn smart schools A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Abia, Prince Paul Ikonne has called on Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, to desist from chasing political clout with the name of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and instead concentrate on providing answers to the questions...

CONYSSA Pledges Support for NYCN’s New Leadership

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

The Coalition of Nigerian Youths on Security and Safety Affairs (CONYSSA) has hailed the emergence of Comrade Babangida Onimisi Isa as the National President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) as a triumph of merit, competence, and dedication to the ideals of youth development and national progress. In...

Umahi vs rufai: Ebonyi indigenes defend AriseTV anchor, reject youths protest

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

The Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora, (AEISCID) has condemned a ‘faceless group’ purportedly under the aegis of Concerned Youths for Distinguished Senator David Umahi, demanding an apology from an AriseTV anchor, Rufai Oseni over his altercation with the Minister of Works Dave Umahi recently. The Ebonyi Indigenes...

Group Hails Ojulari’s Transparency as NNPCL Submits Answers to N210trn Audit Queries

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

…calls on Nigerians to support President Tinubu’s vision in restoring NNPCL’s lost glory A coalition of civil society and accountability advocates under the umbrella of the Network for Transparency and Economic Reform (NETER) has commended Bayo Ojulari, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), his...

Energy Scholar, Prof. Josiah Danladi, Lauds Tinubu’s Administration Reforms in Oil and Gas Upstream

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

…says Nigerians are satisfied with NUPRC’s performance A university don and energy governance scholar, Prof. Josiah Danladi, has commended President Bola Tinubu for what he described as a “bold and transformative recalibration” of Nigeria’s oil and gas upstream sector. Speaking at the Citizens Connect Conference in Lagos, Prof. Danladi said...

NERC: Bilateral Firms Hold Back $8.5M from Nigeria’s Power Sector

NewsDeskNgOct 10, 2025October 10, 20250

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has reported that some international bilateral companies owe Nigeria’s electricity generation companies (GenCos) about $8.5 million in unpaid power supply. In its latest quarterly report, the Commission said the companies made a payment of $9.015 million from an invoice of $17.54 million issued to them in...

‘We Are Alarmed’: Osun Incest Rate Soars, Women’s Group Pleads for Action

NewsDeskNgOct 10, 2025October 10, 20250

…Trains religious leaders on solution The Centre for Women’s Health and Information, CEWHIN, has lamented the high rate of incest in Osun State, calling on religious leaders to take drastic steps towards curbing the menace. Speaking at the side of a two-day consultative Workshop with Muslim and Christian leaders in...

Matters Arising as Nigeria’s Komolafe Leads AFRIPERF

NewsDeskNgOct 9, 2025October 9, 20250

By Moses Dan When Gbenga Komolafe, chief executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), assumed the role of interim chairman of the newly launched African Petroleum Regulators Forum (AFRIPERF), many across the continent’s oil and gas sector hailed it as a watershed moment. His elevation was not just...

Obi Praises Nnaji’s Resignation Over Forgery Claim, Pressures INEC on Verification

NewsDeskNgOct 9, 2025October 9, 20250

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has commended the resignation of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, describing it as a “decent and honourable step” amid the controversy surrounding discrepancies in his academic certificates. In a statement on Thursday,...