Doyin Okupe, former director-general of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign in 2023, has said that he “cannot support” Peter Obi again. Okupe spoke on Monday during an interview with Seun Okinbaloye on Channels Television’s Politics Today. He was reacting to a viral clip of Obi commenting on how the country’s economic situation offers little…
Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu, the new Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, has said that she was fully committed to the foreign policy thrust of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The wife of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was among the seven new ministers that were administered with the oath of office by…
The Presidency last night tackled former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying that the Waziri Adamawa would have plunged Nigeria into a worse economic situation if he had won the 2023 Presidential election. The presidency accused the former Vice President to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of supervising…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has said that any oil marketer that sells petrol cheaper than the price it offers is importing substandard products. In a statement on Sunday, the refinery countered claims by some oil marketers that the cost of the product is higher than that of the imported petrol. On November 1, the Independent…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arrested the controversial social media personality and crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky, at Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. This arrest occurred just days after Bobrisky was released on bail by Nigeria police authorities. The dramatic arrest took place Thursday evening as Bobrisky was about to…
The Federal Government has commended philanthropist and Chief Executive Officer of Premier Lotto Ltd, popularly called Baba Ijebu, Sir Kessington Adebutu, for contributing to education by donating a state-of-the-art Media Resource Centre to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, in Ogba-Ikeja, Lagos. The newly inaugurated Adebutu Media Resource Centre, a 250-seater auditorium was completed in…
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Alex Mascot Ikwechegh, was on Wednesday, docked before an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Kuje for allegedly assaulting a bolt driver at his Abuja residence. The lawmaker, who is representing Aba North and South federal constituency of Abia State, pleaded not guilty to a First Information…
Ministerial Nominee Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu has expressed concern about the state of Nigerian embassies across the globe. She expressed this fresh concern during a ministerial screening before the Senate in plenary on Wednesday. Bianca, a former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, said: “The Nigerian Embassy in Madrid that you see today is the product of my time…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has raised the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, to N1,025 per litre from the previous rate of N980 per litre in Lagos and surrounding areas. This adjustment, announced on Tuesday, marks the third price change in September and October 2024 and is part…
Human rights advocacy organisations, Take It Back Movement (TIB) and the Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC), have demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of a House of Representatives member, Alex Mascot Ikwechegh, for brutally assaulting a Bolt driver in Abuja. The organisations made the demand on Monday while condemning the lawmaker’s attack…
