Thursday, February 20, 2025

Business

NNPC Has Right To Import Fuel If There’s Shortage In Sufficiency – NMDPRA

●●●Says local refineries met 50 percent national consumption requirement in February   A combined photo of NMDPRA and NNPCL logos     By Our Reporter  The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream...

Editorial

EDITORIAL: Despite N7.2tr subsidies, power sector remains inefficient

Power grid      The Nigerian electricity sector has remained a blight for an otherwise promising country but doubly cursed with succession of self-serving incompetent leaders, and...

Politics

Damagum yields to pressure as PDP NWC confirms Udeh-Okoye national secretary

PDP logo       By Akeem Atoyebi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Iliya Damagum, has finally agreed to align with the party’s National...

APC begins digital registration, to link members numbers to NIN

APC logo     By Akeem Atoyebi The All Progressives Congress has officially outsourced to a private company nationwide digital registration of members. The party contracted a private company,...

Banking

NEXIM Bank Staff Bags 4 Years, 2 Months Jail Term For N4m Fraud

Ugenyi Kalu       By Victory Oghene  Ugenyi Kalu, a staff of NEXIM Bsnk has been sentenced to four years, two months by a Special Offences Court. He was...

MFB Battles FCMB Over N150m Withdrawal From Frozen Account

A combined photo of FCMB CEO, Ladi Balogun and FCMB logo     By Our Reporter A Lagos State-based microfinance bank, Cool Financial Service has drsgged First City...

Society

Adaobi Alagwu is parading fake DNA Certificate Says Tunde Ayeni

A combined photo of  Tunde Ayeni and Adaobi Alagwu       By Shade Damiro The controversy surrounding the paternity of the daughter of Abuja based lady Adaobi...

Sports

Victor Osimhen Reacts To Allegation Of Punching A Journalist

Victor Osimhen   By Victory Oghene Super Eagles and Galatasaray striker, Victor Osimhen has reacted to the report making the rounds that he punched a Turkish journalist...

Aviation

3 Air Peace Passengers Arraigned for Disruptive Behavior,  Unauthorized Seat Change

 Air Peace logo       By Our Reporter The Magistrate Court of Lagos State, Ikeja Magisterial District, was the scene of legal proceedings on Friday, February 15,...

Just In: Passenger Jet Collides With Army Helicopter in US, Many Feared Dead

Scene of the crash     By Our Reporter  This is a pathetic news emanating from the United States of America. Its about how a jet with 60...

Foreign

Two Dead As Planes Collide At U.S. Airport

USA flag      By Victory Oghene Two people were reportedly killed as a result of collision between two planes at Marana Regional Airport, Arizona. The Marana Police Department...

$86m Romance scam: Thai woman nabbed for allegedly aiding Nigerian syndicate

Romance scam       By Akeem Atoyebi A 52-year-old Thai woman alleged to have been involved in Thailand’s biggest romance scam has been arrested at Hat Yai Airport. According...

Entertainment

Investigation

Features

Can Musawa turn around Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy?

Minister of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa      By Akeem Atoyebi The bane of development of the country called Nigeria is the overriding importance...

Kanu Continues A Futile Attempt At Grandstanding By UGOCHINYERE DAVID

Nnamdi Kanu     The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) sympathizers may have, in ironic hope, predicted a quicker turn of events over Nnamdi Kanu’s self...

Delta State: Ned Nwoko To The Rescue

Senator Ned Nwoko       By Victory Oghene The Delta state politics in the last couple of years had been about the revolving question of whether the Senator...

Hurdles before Hannatu’s CTICO and the dysfunctional structures in the ministry By Frank Meke

Minister of Culture , Tourism, and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa     There are significant signs clearly showcasing the dysfunctional operational lacuna in the ministry...

Like Father, Like Son, The Inspiring Story of The Ekehs And The Digital Sector. How They Won Thisday Awards By Jimmy Enyeh

  Prince Nnamdi Ekeh and his father, Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh displaying their plaques at the Thisday and Arise News Awards      Victor-Marie Hugo, a French poet,...

Top News

Chairman, JBN PLC,  Mr Mutiu  Sunmonu and Managing Director, JBN Plc, Engr. Dr. Lars Richter   By Our Reporter Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Nigeria’s engineering construction market leader...

Telecoms

Reps, NCC beg labour to shelve planned protest

Telecom masts         By Tony Folarin Obajemu The House of Representatives’ Committee on Communications is currently interfacing with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to...

Telecoms tariff hike: Get ready for Feb 4 protest, NLC tells affiliates, state councils

Telecoms mast     By Akeem Atoyebi Opposition to the planned 50 per cent telecommunication tariffs hike has gathered more momentum with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday,...

Mobile money stimulates growth as Airtel Africa posts $248m profit

Airtel logo      By Tony Folarin Obajemu Airtel Africa has disclosed a profit after tax of $248 million approximately N190.4 billion, for the nine-month period ending December...

At Last, NCC Okays 50% Tariff Hike For Telecoms

NCC logo       By Abdullahi Abubakar Weeks after series of consultations between telecommunication companies and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, over the hike of tarrif for telecommunication...

More Fact Emerges On Falana/Citadel vs Zinox Legal Tussle

A combined photo of Femi Falana, Leo Stan Ekeh and Benjamin Joseph     By Victory Oghene More facts have emerged on the alleged N170.3million 'fraud' case between...

Top News

Chairman, JBN PLC,  Mr Mutiu  Sunmonu and Managing Director, JBN Plc, Engr. Dr. Lars Richter   By Our Reporter Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Nigeria’s engineering construction market leader...

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