A moral police on X has called out Herbert Wigwe’s oldest daughter for not standing to greet the Vice President of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima. The X user shared a photo of Tochi Wigwe sitting while accepting a handshake from Shettima during one of the events organised to mourn Herbert Wigwe, his wife Chizoba Wigwe, and […]

Hotel worker working on billboard electrocuted in DeltaMar 8, 2024 A man simply identified as Calabar, a staff of a hotel in Okpanam, Oshimili North local government area in Delta state was electrocuted while carrying out repairs on the hotel’s billboard today March 7.   The victim was electrocuted while on top of a ladder […]

The Lagos State Police Command has vowed to clamp down on protesters who try to impede the free flow of traffic while protesting. This was made known by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Sunday. According to him, the police are aware of the plan by some people to protest in the state […]

Soldiers Hit Back At Hoodlums Attacking And Stealing In Niger State. There was pandemonium on Thursday, February 22, 2024, as soldiers opened fire when suspected hoodlums hijacked trailers loaded with foodstuff in the Suleja area of Niger State. A witness, Alhassan Abdullahi, told the Daily Trust that many trailers coming from Abuja and heading for […]

The bureau stated this in its Petrol Price Watch for January 2024, released in Abuja on Thursday, February 22. It said that the January 2024 price of N668.30 represented a 159.92 per cent increase over the price of N257.12 recorded in January 2023. “Comparing the average price value with the previous month of December 2023, […]

The Nigerian government has initiated its plan to block cryptocurrency trading platforms such as Binance, OctaFX, Coinbase and others in a bid to avert what it considers continuous manipulation of the forex market and illicit movement of funds. Sources within the major telecommunication companies in the country told Premium Times that the Nigerian Communications Commission […]

“Comrade President, also note that we are not averse to the issuance of your resolution because our members equally feel the pain, even if it’s a weeklong national strike, but we have a huge problem with the unilateral declaration for a process we both muted and agreed, because our members are equally concerned about the […]

The importation of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) reportedly increased by 3.29% in the First Half of 2023. The National Bureau of Statistics in its “First Half 2023 Petroleum Products Report,” noted that petrol increased from 11.56 billion litres in the first half of 2022 to 11.94 billion litres in the first half of 2023. The […]

Feb 19, 2024 Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has said his job is the second most difficult on earth.  Speaking on Sunday, February 18, at the opening of the 2024 First Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Cardoso stated that the Federal Government’s reform and other actions […]

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has said that the reforms being carried out by the Tinubu-led administration has added to the sufferings of Nigerians.   President of the CBCN, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, who spoke at the formal opening of the 2024 First Plenary Assembly of the CBCN at the Catholic Secretariat […]