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The decision of the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, to sack the Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company Managing Director, Najeed Abdulsalam, is causing protests in Abuja. Staff members of the company have been protesting the sack of the agency’s MD. FCT Minister, Wike, had on Wednesday ordered the removal of heads of FCT agencies and parastatals. Wike on Wednesday …

Police operatives in the United States have arrested a man in connection with the murder of music star, Tupac Shakur, 27 years ago. The rapper was shot dead by a mysterious man in Las Vegas on September 13, 1996. Details later… Join the conversation Opinions Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at …

President Bola Tinubu has appointed three new Executive Commissioners for the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said his principal also redeployed one Executive Commissioner from the agency. READ ALSO: Tinubu appoints Abdu Mukhtar Presidential Healthcare Initiative Coordinator …

● Apologise to Governor Dapo Abiodun Local government chairmen in Ogun State on Tuesday denied the allegation that the state government had been diverting their funds, resulting in zero allocation to them. This is even as Governor Dapo Abiodun said he was disturbed by the baseless allegation against him. The council chairmen visited the governor on Tuesday night with Mr …

The Senate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, has directed the resumption of full academic activities in the university with immediate effect. The Senate, in an emergency meeting on Friday, 28th September, 2023 reviewed its earlier directive suspending academic activities, a directive which was occasioned by protest over purported increase in tuition fees leading to the locking of the campus gate. …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Isa Ashiru, said on Friday he would approach the appeal court to declare him the winner of the March 18 election in the state. The three-member panel led by Justice Victor Oviawie had on Thursday upheld Governor Uba Sani’s victory in the election. The tribunal’s ruling had somewhat caused confusion …

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18, 2023 election in Delta State has rejected the verdict of the Delta State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. Omo-Agege has also directed his legal team to immediately proceed with an appeal against Friday’s judgment that upheld the election of Sheriff Oborevwori as governor of Delta State. …

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, on Wednesday, predicted that there would be additional military coups in French-speaking West and Central African nations in the near future in response to the coup in Gabon. Earlier, President Ali Bongo’s democratically elected administration, which had been in place since 2009, was overthrown by certain army commanders on Wednesday. With a two-thirds …

Mrs. Omowunmi Aloba, wife of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, on Tuesday explained how her relationship with the singer’s father became strained. She told a coroner’s court investigating the circumstances surrounding her husband’s death in September that she used to relate well with her father-in-law, Mr. Oladimeji Aloba, and that both of them were very close until things between …

Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) has disclosed that it has agreed to the terms and conditions of the merger of the company with NASCON Allied Industries Plc. and Dangote Rice Limited (DRL). In a statement released on Wednesday, Dangote Sugar said the scheme of arrangement offers NASCON and DRL shareholders 12 shares of 50 kobo each in DSR for 11 ordinary …