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Find lasting solutions to recurring fuel scarcity – Oyo NUJ to Tinubu

NewsDeskNgApr 30, 2024April 30, 20240

The Oyo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has advised the Federal Government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to find lasting solutions to the recurring fuel scarcity in the country. The union made the demand on Monday. According to reports, a litre of petrol for sold...

Fuel queues will disappear by May 1 – NNPCL

NewsDeskNgApr 30, 2024April 30, 20240

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Ltd, has assured Nigerians that the ongoing fuel scarcity and queues will be cleared out Wednesday, May 1. The Chief Communications Officer, NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. He said the company currently has an availability of product exceeding...

King Charles III returns to public duties after cancer treatment

NewsDeskNgApr 30, 2024April 30, 20240

King Charles III will be returning to public duties after the positive effect of his cancer treatment. Recall that King Charles has been on cancer treatment since he was diagnosed early February this year. According to reports, in spite of the welcome news of responding positively to the treatment, the...

UTME 2024 results: 1.4 million candidates scored below 200

NewsDeskNgApr 30, 2024April 30, 20240

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has confirmed that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks, in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board released the results on Monday. And it showed that the number who failed to score half of...

Governor Ododo To Reconstruct Ogori-magongo Internal Roads, Seeks Support For President Tinubu

NewsDeskNgApr 30, 2024April 30, 20240

By Obansa Ibrahim, Lokoja Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo has pledged to construct network of roads connecting communities in Ogori-Magongo local government area of the state. According to Ismaila Isah, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor,the Governor disclosed this in Magongo during the Owiya-Osese festival where he...

Emefiele challenges court’s jurisdiction over Fraud Trial

NewsDeskNgApr 29, 2024April 29, 20240

The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Monday challenged the jurisdiction of an Ikeja Special Offences Court to hear the alleged abuse of office and multi billion dollars fraud leveled against him. According to reports, Mr Olalekan Ojo, SAN, who led other counsel, appeared for Emefiele...

Kogi gov, Ododo used immunity to protect Yahaya Bello from EFCC arrest – Oshiomhole

NewsDeskNgApr 29, 2024April 29, 20240

Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole has accused Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State of using his immunity to cover his predecessor, Yahaya Bello. He said Ododo wrongly used his immunity by prevent the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from arresting Bello. EFCC had accused Bello of money laundering and...

Obaseki raises Edo workers’ minimum wage to N70,000

NewsDeskNgApr 29, 2024April 29, 20240

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has increased the minimum wage of workers in the state civil service to N70,000, beginning from May 1, 2024. According to reports, Obaseki disclosed this on Monday at the commissioning of the Labour House, built for the organized labour in the state. The house was...

Dislodged criminals relocating to rural communities – Abia govt alerts citizens

NewsDeskNgApr 29, 2024April 29, 20240

Abia State government says it has observed that some suspected criminals who were dislodged from their hideouts by the state’s joint security team, Operation Crush, are now relocating to some other parts of the state, especially the rural communities. The relocation, according to the state government, is to avoid possible...

Don’t Let Militancy Return to Niger-Delta, GPMI tasks Security Forces

NewsDeskNgApr 29, 2024April 29, 20240

A group, Global Peace Movement International, UK has called on the leadership of the Nigerian military, paramilitary and other state actors in the security affairs of the country to close ranks not to allow militancy return to the Niger-Delta region. At a press conference in Regency Hyatt Hotel in Central...