THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a Delhi, India-bound passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja on March 31 for ingesting 80 wraps of cocaine. Its spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated on Sunday in Abuja that the…
IT has come to the knowledge of the leadership of the Labour Party of a letter of invitation trending in some sections of the media purportedly written by some desperate characters in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC inviting some Nigerians…
THE Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, ES/CEO, of the National Lottery Trust Fund, NLTF, Bello Maigari, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for helping to widen the revenue base of the Fund through enhanced remittance inflows…
THE pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organization, Afenifere, has decried the over 200 per cent electricity tariff increase, saying that it will thwart the current administration’s effort at boosting the economy as businesses will shrink. Afenifere, in a statement issued by…
THE Nigerian government privatized the electricity sector in November 2013. The sector is divided into generation, transmission, and distribution. Generation companies (GenCos) and distribution companies (DisCos) are now private entities. The government still owns the transmission company. Nigeria has several power…
THE Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company has downgraded some Band A feeders to Band E, including the Farm Feeder serving former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Trojan News reports IBEDC, in a list released on Saturday, disclosed that about 28 feeders under the Ibadan…
ONE of my memorable early experiences in BPE was a political baptism of fire – an encounter that opportunity to cash in on that misfortune. They did something similar in India in the 1990s and it went really wrong but…
A former prominent figure of the Association for Better Nigeria (ABN) and a well-known golfer, Abimbola Davis, has died in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. Davis’s death was confirmed to Punch, by his elder brother, Mr. Azeez Olalekan, also known as…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has appealed for global peace and stability in Africa and other trouble spots around the world, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Tinubu stated this while addressing members of the Diplomatic Corps and Heads of International…
THE National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), has said that no fewer than 50,000 Nigerian intending pilgrims will perform the 2024 hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Executive Chairman of NAHCON, Malam Jalal Arabi, disclosed this at a…
