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Over two years after the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) introduced the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) scheme to close the estimated 40million metering gap; it has remained a pipedream with many Nigerian households unconnected to […]

The Presidency has again reassured Nigerians on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine administered on President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday. The president’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, gave the assurance […]

By Taiwo Adebulu The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says electricity distribution companies (DisCos) are to replace faulty and obsolete prepaid meters for their customers. In a document issued, on Friday, and signed by Sanusi […]

Aerial supply of arms, ammunition and food to bandits is a major reason for the imposition of ‘no fly zone’ order on Zamfara State, it was learnt on Wednesday. Besides, helicopters are also used to […]

The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC)’s insistence on National Identification Number (NIN) for issuance of driver’s licence and vehicle registration is bringing sanity and credibility to the process, although problems remain, writes ROBERT EGBE Couldn’t drive, […]

A Nigerian drug baron, Ekwegbalu James Nzube, 45, has been sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling drugs into the country. Nzube was sentenced to death by a court in the southern Tay Ninh Province […]

All the 36 state governors and their deputies will receive the COVID-19 vaccine in public on March 10. The decision was reached on Thursday, after an emergency meeting to discuss the distribution of the vaccine. […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will commission the 1.4km Pen Cinema Bridge, Agege on Friday, 5 March 2021. The Agege Pen Cinema Flyover project started in 2017 under the last administration of former Governor Akinwunmi […]

A federal high court sitting in Lagos has set aside its interim order of forfeiture made against Bukola Saraki, former senate president. The court had, in October 2019, granted the request of the Economic and […]

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, has called on the federal government to meet the demands of the Amalgamated Union of Food and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN). Bello spoke after the union met with the […]

(In the second part of this series on extrajudicial killings during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria, Kemi Busari investigates the killing of an awaiting trial inmate at the Kaduna Correctional facility and why prison authorities […]

By EricJames Ochigbo Northern Nigeria Cattle and foodstuff traders have agreed to lift food embargo on southern Nigeria, following the intervention of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and a former aviation minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode. […]

Stakeholders in agriculture and farmers in the South West, yesterday, allayed fears of food scarcity following the alleged stoppage of food supply to the region. But they were quick to challenge state governments in the […]

The former Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has compared Nigeria to a vehicle with a knocked engine, insisting Nigerians should devote more of their energy towards […]

Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, says hoodlums stole $2 million and N17 million during the invasion of his palace. On October 21, 2020, after the #EndSARS protest had degenerated into a crisis in some […]

Nigerian actor and former broadcaster Sadiq Daba, who is best known for his role as “Inspector Waziri” in the film October 1, has died. Daba passed away on the evening of Wednesday, March 3, 2021, […]