News

1st May 2024 As Nigerian workers commemorate the 2024 May Day on Wednesday (today), organised labour has expressed concern about the rising food prices and fuel scarcity in the country, saying the current situation threatens workers’ survival. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress leaders, in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Tuesday, […]

1st May 2024 The Federal Government, on Tuesday, announced that it was set to issue a fully valid operating licence to the 650,000 barrels per day capacity Dangote Petroleum Refinery. It announced this at the Stakeholders’ Consultation Forum on Midstream and Petroleum Host Community Development Trust Regulations organised by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum

30th April 2024 The management of the University of Benin has approved the indefinite suspension of the university’s Student Union Government. In a statement on Monday by the university’s Registrar, Ademola Bobola, the institution said the suspension was in connection with the attack on the Edo State Labour Party’s candidate, Olumide Akpata, by some students

30th April 2024 In continuation of its crackdown on forex racketeers, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has pencilled for investigation, 1,146 bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies over alleged money laundering, unauthorised dealing in foreign exchange and illegal naira manipulation. The commission secured an interim order granted by Justice Emeka Nwite of the

30th April 2024 The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Monday began offloading 240 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise called petrol, as it stepped up efforts to tackle the worsening nationwide petrol scarcity. As the NNPCL began offloading petrol, filling stations sold the product at an average price of N800 per litre in

A 400-level female student of the University of Abuja, Murjanatu Zubairu, who was declared missing on Friday, has died in a car accident along the Lugbe, Airport Road, Abuja. Zubairu, a student of the Department of Arts Education in the university’s Faculty of Education, left home for school on Friday, but her whereabouts remained unknown

President Bola Tinubu said, on Sunday, that Nigeria would have gone bankrupt if his administration had not discontinued fuel subsidy payments. He said though the policy came with economic pains, it was in the best interest of Nigerians. Tinubu spoke at the Special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Upon assuming office last May,

A 15-year-old is facing trouble with the law after being accused of pulling out a gun at a convenience store worker. This happened at a convenience store on Galveston Road, next to Cesar Chavez High School, on Thursday morning. Viewer video sent to our source shows the sight outside of Cesar Chavez High School on

The Ondo State Police Command, on Sunday, said it had begun an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of one Mr Alaba Abe, who is one of the ward campaign coordinators of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The late Abe was among Aiyedatiwa’s campaign coordinators during last Saturday’s All Progressives Congress governorship primary in Ondo State,

April 29, 2024 A surge in demand for dollars in the parallel market driven by banks and end-users combined with slow forex disbursement to BDCs by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, caused the Naira, last week, to fall by 23 per cent against the dollar, thus recording the worst weekly performance of the Naira