Year: 2016
N145 Petrol Price: TUC issues FG 5-day ultimatum
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Friday, gave the Federal Government till May 18, to invite labour leaders…
Oil workers demand N90,000 new minimum wage
In the light of the increase in the price of petrol from N86.50 to N145 per litre, oil workers in…
US, Nigeria move to end Boko Haram
Nigeria and the United States have expressed determination to jointly develop a comprehensive approach to ending Boko Haram insurgency in…
Petrol queues disappear in Kano
With the introduction of the new N145 per litre for the premium motor spirit, long queues of vehicles have disappeared…
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Senegalese woman is new FIFA secretary-general
For the first time in the history of world football governing body, FIFA, a woman and an African has been…
200,000 jobs to be created with new price regime – FG
The Federal Government says that the new price regime for the downstream petroleum sector is comprehensively designed to tackle the…
Eniola Aluko, Oshoala clash in FA Cup final
The 46th Women’s FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Chelsea is set to see a competition-record crowd venture down Wembley…
Stop security votes for governors – Kalu
Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State has called for the scrapping of security votes for state governors,…
Cleric counsels Muslims on Ramadan
The Chief Imam of Garki Area 10 Juma’at Mosque, Abuja, Malam Yahya Al-Yolawi, has admonished Muslims to observe the forthcoming…
Doctors’ strike takes toll on patients
Some of the patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Friday said that the warning strike…
NLC, TUC warned against holding nationwide strike
Media Development Initiative (MDI), a Non-Governmental Organisation, on Friday, cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and other labour unions against…
PDP suspends southwest zonal congress
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its South West zonal congress scheduled for May 14, in line with the…
Fuel price increment unavoidable- Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the new price regime for petrol announced by the Federal…
Police parade criminals with arms
The Taraba Police Command has arrested 10 suspected criminals with large cache of arms and ammunitions during separate operations. The…
Ogun confirms building collapse
The Ogun State government has confirmed the partial collapse of a four-storey building at the Itoku area of Abeokuta. In…
Auchi residents get condoms for safe sex
The Edo State Agency for the Control of HIV and AIDs (EDO-SACA) on Friday distributed condoms to residents of Auchi…
Police to fight for women abused
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) had created a ‘public friendly’ gender unit across the country to prosecute anyone culpable of…
Chelsea offer captain John Terry new contract
Chelsea captain John Terry has been offered a new one-year contract by the Blues and is considering whether to accept…
Mother Teresa now a saint
The Vatican on Friday confirmed Iconic missionary nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be officially elevated to Catholic sainthood during…
2,058 senior police officers promoted
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 2,058 senior police officers to their next ranks in line…
World’s oldest person dies
A research group said on Friday in New York that the world’s oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones is…
Man jailed for stealing woman’s handbag in church
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday handed a 12 months jail term to a 22-year-old unemployed man, Innocent Ali,…
Man steals N7k phone, gets N50k bail
Jethro Ibileke/Benin An Evboriaria Magistrate’s Court, in Benin, Edo state, has admitted a 21-year-old man, Benjamen Obira, to a N50,000…
Prices of garri, rice, tomatoes remain high in Lagos
The prices of tomatoes, rice and garri, which went up at the turn of the season, have yet to come…
8 ships with petrol arrive Lagos ports
Eight ships laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, have arrived Lagos ports, waiting to discharge. The…
Collapsed wall kills 2 minors
Two minors were confirmed killed when a wall collapsed on a room in Kwamba, Suleja Local Government Area of Niger.…
One dead, many injured as Amosun’s market collapses
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Pandemonium struck early Friday morning when a market under construction at Itoku, Abeokuta South local government area of…
Chris Giwa’s NFF incurs legal debt, refuses to pay
The Amaju Pinnick-led faction of the Nigeria Football Federation has accused the Chris Giwa-led faction of incurring $100,000 legal debt…
Man nabbed for dealing in Indian hemp
The NDLEA in Ekiti on Friday re-arraigned one Oluwatoyin Omiata before the Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly…
ICAN commends FG over subsidy removal
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Ikeja District Society, has today commended the Federal Government over the deregulation…