Former Senate Committee Chairman on Information and Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, who represented Enugu North Senatorial Zone is dead. The Senator who was in the National Assembly between 2007 and 2015, died on Thursday in an Abuja hospital at the age of 66 after suffering from an undisclosed illness. For the eight years he spent…
MRS Oil Plc has slashed the price of Automotive Gas Oil popularly known as diesel to N1,050 per litre across its outlets nationwide. This was disclosed in a flier prepared by the oil firm now trending online. The slash in price from as high as N1,700 in some filling stations last month was said to…
Broadcasting company Multichoice has jacked up the prices of its offerings in Nigeria four months after its last increment. The company reviewed prices in its packages across the board. The new prices will take effect from May 1, 2024. In the new price, the DStv Premium package increased from N29,500 to N37,000. Similarly, the DStv…
The Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development has ordered the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to suspend Dana Air, until comprehensive audits on its fleet are conducted. This is coming a day after the airline had an unfortunate runway incident at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. A letter signed by the ministry’s Permanent…
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Olanipekun Olukoyede has said that the embattled past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, told him to send investigators of the Commission to his village for the purpose of probing him over allegations of money laundering. According to him Bello said this in reply to…
The management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has suspended a lecturer identified as Mr Mfonobong Udoudom, who was caught in a new-viral video allegedly harassing a female student. The lecturer who was caught in a viral video wearing a pair of boxers is said to be a lecturer in General Studies of the university….
The naira depreciated in its value against the United States dollar to N1,234 at the official foreign exchange market on Monday, according to data obtained from the FMDQ securities exchange. The exchange rate means the naira fell by N65 or 5.26 per cent from N1,169.99/$1 recorded on Friday. The local currency had strengthened to around…
President Bola Tinubu will, jet out of the country on Tuesday, for the Kingdom of the Netherlands on an official visit. Presidential Spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale has said in a statement in Abuja yesterday, adding, the visit is on the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte. As part of…
*High Cost of Drugs due to Economic Problems in Nigeria *Our Website was Despicable *Corruption Eaten into the Fiber of NAFDAC In superintending the affairs of NAFDAC since her appointment as the Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has brought along with her inexhaustible innovations, unequivocally sweeping the Commission clean of decadence, bureaucratic bottlenecks, and system ineptitudes….
The Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, said it has uncovered the illegal activities of a fake cosmetics producer at the Balogun Trade Fair Gate, Trade Fair Complex, Lagos State. NAFDAC disclosed this on its X handle on Monday. The agency said the fake cosmetics…
