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The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, has bemoaned the non-functional state of refineries in the country, describing it as a shame on the country. Kyari also expressed sadness with Nigeria’s position as a net importer of petroleum...

No fewer than 12 persons were arrested by security forces, comprising soldiers and policemen, with some others sustaining various degrees of injuries as police dispersed protesters during the #RevolutionNow protest, which began yesterday in Lagos.... Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to address concrete issues of misgovernment and devastation his administration … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

The Presidency yesterday in Abuja accused the former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23, 2019 poll, Atiku Abubakar, of always playing up … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2LZcTuQ Get More Nigeria Political News

As part of the efforts by the present administration to provide uninterrupted electricity to Nigerian students by supplying power through off-grid captive power plants, the federal government under its Energising Education Programme (EPP) will today inaugurate the first solar hybrid power plant...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, has dismissed an appeal by Gani Topba, the leader of a civil society group, Conscience of Ogoni People, against the judgment of Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal of 1995 against the Ogoni environmental activist, Ken...

The two-year royal crisis within the Ibadan Traditional Council, Thursday assumed another dimension as indications emerged that there are still some scores to settle, with the new kings vowing that they would only return to the Olubadan palace if they were accorded due recognition as … Read...

The Nigerian military contingent for the 2019 Hajj exercise has arrived in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The 348 soldiers landed at the Prince Mohammed Abdulaziz International Airport early yesterday morning. They departed Lagos last Wednesday evening aboard a Flynas Flight XY5133 that also had …...

The cold war between the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Elder Simon Achuba, and the state Governor, Yahaya Bello, has taken a dangerous dimension as Achuba Thursday expressed that his life is in danger, alleging that the governor is … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2OBqj2f Get...

The unending traffic gridlock in Apapa, Lagos State, reached a new level Thursday when a yet-to-be-identified truck driver was shot around Tin Can Island Port as hoodlums allegedly attacked truck drivers around Coconut bus stop on Apapa road. Also, scores of people who were attacked with...

The daughter of the detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, Suhaila El-Zakzaky, has insisted that the group will continue its protesters till her father is released. Suhaila said this in reaction to a … Read more via...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that Nigeria losses about N1.42 trillion in economic terms annually as consequences of violence against children (VAC). The disclosure was made in Calabar, Cross River State capital, thursday by the Public Finance for Child Protection...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on all churches and Christians in the country to pray against a “deadly plane crash.” The Secretary to the Conference of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Michael Akinwale, said this in a memo to its archbishops and bishops, dated...

Fifteen out of 50 passengers traveling on a boat across River Malale in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State have been confirmed dead in yesterday boat mishap, as the remaining 35 passengers have also not been accounted for. The Director General of the state … Read more via...

Notore Chemical Industries Nigeria Plc, a leading vertically integrated agro-allied and chemicals group has announced a revenue of N16.5 billion and an operating profit of N3.343 billion for the nine months ended June 30, 2019. The 2019 revenue showed a decline of 19.9 per cent compared to …...

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, and other members of the Peoples Alternative Forum have raised the alarm over the invasion of the Azaghene community in the Ekemor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by the Nigerian Army on July 23, 2019. In … Read...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today open his defence in the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2GDyrsr Get More Nigeria Political News

Georgia Oboh gave it her best shot but painfully ended up short in her bid to secure qualification for the final round of the Women’s British Open. The young Nigerian professional golfer was three strokes outside the cut line, even though she salvaged an even par 72 … read more via...

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State is fast coming up strong on the concept of the Almajiri system of education in northern Nigeria, saying measures were already being taken to stop the culture of begging in his state, while also insisting that there were more than 10 million child-beggars...

The first daughter of the immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha and wife of the Action Alliance (AA) governorship candidate in Imo State, Mrs. Uloma Okorocha-Nwosu was Friday saved by the Imo State Police Command from being lynched by angry mobs over Imo State Government …...