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A 58-year-old man died while on a spiritual fast in Lagos State. State police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the news to reporters on Tuesday in Lagos. He said the man died around 6:00 a.m., Monday in the Alagbado area of ​​the state. Hundeyin said: “The deceased’s younger brother reported the incident at the Alagbado Police Division at around 7:00 p.m. …

Nigerian oil traders attribute the country’s current fuel shortage to persistent logistical difficulties. The chairman of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association, PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harry, said this in an interview with Channels Television. According to him, oil sellers were currently limited by supply and could only distribute what they had. “I think that until we solve our supply problems …

Amid severe shortages and the return of long fuel queues across the country, oil marketers under the auspices of the Independent Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria (IPMAN) have revealed that the state oil company, Nigeria National Petroleum Company Ltd NNPCL has not been supplying petroleum products directly to them for the past three years. As a result, marketers said they now …

Human rights activist and lawyer, Chief Femi Falana, has responded to the Nigerian Police Force’s invitation to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero. Falana stated that Ajaero could not fulfill the invitation on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, due to a previous commitment. In his letter to the Inspector General of Police, Falana explained that Ajaero …

Napoli sporting director Giovanni Manna has reacted to Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen’s desire to leave the club and join Chelsea, saying that Victor Osimhen’s situation is “blocked”. Osimhen is pushing to leave the Partenopei this summer, but it is rumoured that the interested clubs, Chelsea, Arsenal and PSG, have not yet matched his price. “It’s an objective fact, what the …

Walter Onnoghen, former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) appeared in court on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, challenging his suspension as CJN by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in 2019. Onnoghen seeks to quash and set aside the CCT decision rendered against him on 18 April 2019, on various grounds. In his appeal, Onnoghen argued that …

The Lagos State Task Force has conducted a clean-up exercise along Mile 2 Oke of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, removing illegal shacks, roadside traders and confiscating 2,000 litres of petroleum products. According to a statement released on Tuesday by the Agency’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Abdulraheem Gbadeyanka, the exercise was necessary to address the growing challenges posed by roadside …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued a stern warning to the Nigerian Police, threatening to launch a nationwide strike if its president, Joe Ajaero, is arrested or injured. The resolution was announced by Vice President Comrade Adewale Adeyanju after an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council on Tuesday. A group of union members gathered at the NLC headquarters …

The Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kwara State, Hajia Fatima Abiola-Popoola, has proposed that newly admitted university students should be subjected to mandatory drug testing as part of the admission process. He explained that this would “work as a preventative measure while offering early intervention and counselling to those who already use drugs to prevent …

“I hear the people of Ogun State have put the people of Nigeria in serious trouble with the Chinese.” “You did not hear anything. The story is out there and it is so loud that even the deaf can hear that there is a Chinese problem in Nigeria right now. And just to correct your statement, it is not the …