The deployment of dispensing pumps for Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, have risen by 233 per cent in six months since November last year. Coordinator and Chief Executive, Presidential Initiative on CNG, Pi-CNG, Mr. Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this while addressing journalists during a tour of the Mikano International CNG based vehicle assembly plant in Ogun State. Meanwhile, Mikano has […]
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi said the biggest problem of Nigeria’s democracy is the judiciary and not the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Obi stated this at the fifth memorial of late Justice Anthony Aniagolu at the Godfrey Okoye University in Enugu. According to the former Anambra […]
A pressure group within the Labour Party, LP, known as Catalyst Committee, CC, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Judiciary not to succumb to political pressure and show conformity to the rule of law and the Electoral Act 2022, as amended, with regard to the candidacy of the party. The […]
Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has left Borussia Dortmund forward Karim Adeyemi out of the Die Mannschaft squad for the UEFA Euro 2024 championship, scheduled to take place in Germany next month. The winger was a surprise omission from Nagelsmann ‘s 27-man squad for the tournament in Germany, having had an impressive season for Dortmund. The […]
Rivers Hoopers will face AS Douanes of Senegal in one of the four seeding games in the playoffs of the ongoing 2024 Basketball Africa League at the BK Arena in Kigali next week. The seeding games will take place from May 24 to 25. Both teams met twice in the Sahara Conference last week, each recording […]
President Bola Tinubu has urged the Senate to review and approve a bill aimed at prohibiting athletes from using substances that enhanced their performances. Tinubu’s request was conveyed in a letter read on Thursday on the floor of the upper legislative chamber by the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau. The President stated that the bill […]
Ahead of the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has cautioned against the abuse of incumbency power. Yakubu noted that a situation where a ruling party denied the opposition access to campaign spaces often resulted in a breach of peace. He appealed for […]
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that unbeknownst to young cryptocurrency traders in Nigeria, terrorists are using them to trade to fund terrorism in the country. The EFCC boss said some of the people who received money to trade in cryptocurrencies did not know that their financiers were […]
The Kano State Police Command, on Thursday, said 11 persons have died following Wednesday’s bombing incident at a mosque in Gadan Village, Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesman in Kano, Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed this to our correspondent. Haruna said three more of the victims died on Wednesday, raising the figure to […]
Members of an unidentified Muslim group recently stormed a worship centre that plays host to both Christian and Islamic services in the Alalubosa area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The group members who said they were acting on the instruction of the Emir Ilorin, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, revealed that the worship centre was originally […]
