The House of Representatives has urged the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) not to approve any increase in electricity tariff in Nigeria. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion on ‘Suspense over Planned Electricity Tariff Hike’ moved by Hon. Read more…
A Civil society organisation, Good Governance Initiative (GGI), has faulted the demand by President Bola Tinubu that the National Assembly should amend the 2022 supplementary appropriation act to make provisions for N500 million to cushion the effect of subsidy removal. Read more…
Agony, anger and condemnation has greeted the increase in pump price of petrol which saw it jumping to over N600 a litre. In their separate reactions, Labour Party (LP), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Civil Society Legislative Read more…
Two more attacks by unmanned kamikaze sea drones on July 16 and 17 in the northern Black Sea and the Kerch Bridge, allegedly by Ukraine, have raised alarms in the Russian Navy, which has planned to upgrade all its vessels. Read more…
In response to widespread public criticism and concern, the Tinubu administration has announced a revision of the N8,000 cash transfer program intended to provide relief to vulnerable households affected by the recent removal of petrol subsidy. Presidential spokesman, Dele Alake Read more…
For the first time in several months, full academic and business activities resumed in Enugu State, yesterday, as the government intensified efforts to eradicate the sit-at-home order imposed by Biafra agitators. This was as Governor Peter Mbah, who monitored compliance Read more…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd., has attributed the increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol to the market realities. The company’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Malam Mele Kyari, stated this in an interview Read more…
Russia will no longer provide security guarantees for civilian vessels traversing the formerly exempted corridor in the Black Sea, the country’s foreign ministry has announced. Earlier on Monday, the Kremlin stated that it would not extend the Black Sea grain Read more…
Former governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has described the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as a cash cow organisation that needs to be reviewed. Wike stated this while speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of Governor Siminialayi Fubara’s N195.3bn Port Read more…
Friday, 30 September 2022 is indelible in the mind of Francis Uyanne, a resident of Atani in Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State. That was the day he and his family members “walked on water.” “We just woke Read more…
The much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive has seen no success more than a month after it was launched, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday. Putin praised Russia’s “heroic” troops and insisted that the direction of Moscow’s military Read more…
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Valery Zaluzhny told the Washington Post in an interview published on Friday that US has restricted his country’s use of long-range missiles and forced his army to improvise in order to attack Russia. Read more…