GIVE NIGERIANS PREPAID METERS BEFORE TARIFF HIKE -Lawan tells DISCOs •Buhari backs suspension of electricity tariff hike ▪Power Distributors postpone new tariff regime till 2021
SENATE President Ahmad Lawan has urged electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to install functional meters for their customers before planning any tariff increase. Lawan spoke on Tuesday after he and House…
FG RESCUES 39 NIGERIANS DETAINED IN GHANA OVER ILLEGAL ENTRY
The Federal Government has facilitated the release of 39 Nigerians detained for illegally entering Ghana. The Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, made this known in a statement shared on…
$2.5B AKK GAS PIPELINE TO FEED 4 STATES, FCT -FG
NIGERIA’s gas development got a huge boost on Tuesday with the turning of sod of the $2.92 billion Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline. President Muhammadu Buhari performed the sod turning that…
FMDQ DEEPENS DEBT MARKET WITH N200B MTN’s, DANGOTE’s ISSUES
FMDQ Securities Exchange has further deepened the secondary debt market with the admission of the historic debt issues by Nigeria’s leading corporates, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc and Dangote Cement Plc…
OYO ASSEMBLY HOLDS SPECIAL SITTING FOR AJIMOBI
OYO State House Assembly on Tuesday held a special sitting in honour of the late former governor Abiola Ajimobi. Addressing the Assembly, Speaker Adebo Ogundoyin said the news of the…
NMA, NUT KNOCK FED GOVT OVER ORDER TO REOPEN SCHOOLS ▪We can’t resume, we don’t want to die -Teachers tells FG
The Nigerian Medical Association and the Nigeria Union of Teachers, on Tuesday, took a swipe at the Federal Government over its “safe reopening of schools.’ The apex organisations of medical…
PRESS BRIEFING BY LAGOS COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, HAKEEM O. ODUMOSU, psc, ON SUCCESSES RECORDED IN THE LAST ONE MONTH HELD ON 1ST JULY, 2020 AT THE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, IKEJA, LAGOS
Good morning Gentlemen of the Press and thank you for coming. With the partial easing of the lockdown by Government last month, the usual hustle and bustle associated with the…
COVID-19: 7.8M NIGERIANS ARE IN NEED OF LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE -United Nations
The United Nations says at least 7.8 million Nigerians are in need of life-saving assistance. While addressing reporters on Tuesday, Eve Sabbagh, head of public information unit, UN office for…
CORONAVIRUS IS A HOAX -says Kogi Governor
KOGI State Governor Yahaya Bello on Tuesday said the fear of Coronavirus kills faster than the virus itself. According to him, a virus that has killed 510,909 people worldwide as…
FAKE LAWYER DEFRAUD CLIENT OF N300,000 IN OGUN
Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a self-acclaimed lawyer, Elijah Ojo, for allegedly duping a client into parting with N300,000. Ojo was reported to have collected the…