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Nigeria’s former Minister of Power, Barth Nnaji, has revealed two factors that world eliminate the country’s power crisis. Nnaji said during a briefing in Enugu on Friday that allowing states to manage power generation is one of the decisions that will improve power supply. He also said that power generation …

Elon Musk Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, on Thursday, sold about $4 billion worth of Tesla stock in a sale that is likely going toward financing his purchase of Twitter. In an SEC filing on Thursday, it was revealed that the Tesla CEO sold 4.4 million shares on Tuesday and Wednesday, …

 The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission invited the Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, Dr Ahmed Adeagbo, and another official of the hospital over an allegation of fraud of N176 million COVID-19 intervention fund. Our correspondent gathered that ICPC, the Osogbo branch, Osun …

David Mark The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) screening committee is, today, Friday, screening presidential hopefuls on its platform. Among those being screened are Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former vice president; Bukola Saraki, former senate president; Peter Obi, former Anambra State governor; Anyim Pius Anyim, former senate president; Dele Momodu, media personality. …

Sani Shehu Sani, former Kaduna Central senator, has promised to send his daughter to study in the state university, if he becomes governor of the state in 2023. Sani, an aspirant for Kaduna governorship on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, made the remark after pictures of the incumbent …

The Lagos State Government said it only approved May 2nd and 3rd as public holidays to celebrate the 2022 International Workers’ Day and the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations. The government also told workers in the Centre of Excellence to disregard its earlier circular which approved three straight days as public holidays. The …

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Assembly Screening Committee in Kogi State, on Wednesday, disqualified Ubolo Itodo Okpanachi and Aminu Abubakar Suleiman from the Kogi East senatorial contest over various acts of misconduct. The result of the screening exercise released on Thursday in Lokoja, the state capital, showed that while …

Ifeanyi Okowa and Sheriff Oborevwori Delta State House of Assembly led by Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has approved N150 billion ‘bridging finance facility’ requested by the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, THE WITNESS reports. The assembly gave its approval for the facility at plenary on Tuesday, barely 11 months to the …

Usman Hadiza Bala Usman, former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has insisted that she never stopped campaigning for the rescue of Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 during her time in office. Bala Usman, a co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement which emerged following the …

Billionaire drug baron behind the N3billion Tramadol deal involving the embattled suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. After months of surveillance and evading arrest, Ukatu who is …