IN a recent survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, it was learnt that 32 percent of Nigerians who secured jobs in the nation’s public service in 2019 paid a bribe to get the appointments. Country Representative, UNODC, Oliver Stolpe, stated this on Wednesday at the 18th Anti-Corruption Situation Room, ACSR, […]
The long closure of the Enugu depot of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is no doubt hitting hard on oil marketers in the South East who now source their products from far distances with the attendant risks involved. The depot has been shut for over 10 years running, inflicting serious hardship on the dealers and […]
There is panic in Port Harcourt as many petrol filling stations in the city have refused to sell while others were closed as at Wednesday morning. The fresh fuel scarcity in the city is solely attributed to the strike action by tanker drivers in the state under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum […]
Ekiti state Governor, Kayode Fayemi has approved the promotion of 4,466 workers in the state’s teaching service, (TESCOM) who were due for promotion in 2018 and 2019. The chairman, TESCOM, Ekiti state, Mr Babatunde Abegunde revealed this while fielding questions from journalists in Ado Ekiti, stated that the promotion exercise cuts across all the cadres […]
Ekiti state Governor, Kayode Fayemi has approved the promotion of 4,466 workers in the state’s teaching service, (TESCOM) who were due for promotion in 2018 and 2019. The chairman, TESCOM, Ekiti state, Mr Babatunde Abegunde revealed this while fielding questions from journalists in Ado Ekiti, stated that the promotion exercise cuts across all the cadres […]
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has raised an alarm of an alleged plot to attack the National Assembly. Lawan, who disclosed this during an emergency closed-door meeting between the Senate’s leadership and top security officials, said the disclosure is backed by reports he received that claimied the assembly complex is under security threat. In a […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the nation lost about 750 million dollars to oil theft in 2019. The NNPC Group Managing Director, Malam Mele Kyari, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Acting spokesman for the corporation Mr Samson Makoji, in Abuja on Tuesday. Kyari said this when members of the Executive […]
Traders in the electrical/electronics market in old Nnewi-Onitsha Road, Nnewi, Anambra State, have protested closure and relocation of the market. The protesters, about 2,000, complained the new site was not built to their taste. Chairman of Diago/Okeke Line Kenneth Offodum claimed security operatives did not allow them to access their stalls to pick their belongings. […]
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, has confirmed a case of Lassa Fever in the hospital. Confirming this in a telephone chat with our correspondent, the Chairman, LUTH Medical Advisory Committee, CMAC, Professor Wasiu Adeyemo said the hospital was on top of the situation, even as it explained that the patient was responding to treatment. […]
AS Leah Sharibu, the Christian Dapchi schoolgirl continues to languish in Boko Haram captivity two years after she was abducted, President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that he will continue to seek the release of all children and captives of terrorists. President Buhari in a statement he personally signed in Abuja on the day that coincided […]