Senators Divided Over Fuel Scarcity, Petroleum Minister Summons
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator from Abia state, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, has asked the upper chambers of the National Assembly to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to explain the current scarcity of petrol across the country. The lawmaker argued that…
#Nnamdi Kanu: Why CD Backs pro-Biafra Protesters, Urges Ndigbo Youths to Shun Fr. Mbaka Ministry
With tension rising higher as a result of the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), which refused to be intimidated by threats by security forces in…
OPC Launches Online Radio, Magazine
Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has announced the launch of an Oodua Radio/Magazine, in honour of the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, late Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo. Adams who said the launch took place in…
Biafra Protests in Nigeria Driven by Poverty, Neglect, Injustice – Daily Mail
Forty-five years after a brutal civil war, Nigeria is facing a new wave of protests for a separate Biafran state, driven by long-standing complaints about poverty, neglect and injustice. The impetus for the current agitation is not much different from…
I Didn’t Award Any $2Bn Arms Contract – Jonathan
Former Nigeri’s President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has denied awarding any arms procurement contract in the range of $2 billion dollars while in office. Jonathan made this disclosure while reacting to the arms procurement scandal involving the former National Security Adviser,…
Revealed: How Online Population Would Hit 5Bn By 2020
The world’s online population will double to five billion by 2020 presenting “huge” business opportunities for tech start-ups on the cutting edge of the unprecedented expansion, the head of Google Europe said Thursday. “The connected population is going to double…
Twists As Senate Begins Probe of CCT Chairman Over N10m Bribery Allegation
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday directed the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate a petition filed against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Mr. Danladi Umar. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
Fuel Subsidy Gets 88 Percent of N465bn Supplementary Budget
The Senate on Wednesday received request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the approval of N465.64 billion Supplementary Budget for government activities in remaining part of 2015. Out of the amount, subsidy payment on supply of petrol was allocated N413.36 billion,…
Scores Killed in Kano GSM Market Twin Blasts
Many were feared dead in Kano, Wednesday, from twin blasts at the heart of GSM market, Nassarawa GRA. Eyewitnesses said that the Improvised Explosive Device was planted close to the generator serving the market, while the second bomb went off at the…
Senate Clears Lagos to Obtain $200million World Bank Loan
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Wednesday approved $200 million loan request by the Lagos State government. This followed deliberation of the report of Ad-hoc Committee on Foreign and Local debt to which the request was referred…
Prof Nnaji Breaks Silence on Power Sector, Makes Revelations
Nigerians only get 50 percent of generated power, a former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, told the Senate ad hoc Committee on Power, reports Daily Post. Nnaji, said the nation still experiences irregular electricity supply because the regulatory agencies…
