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The Federal Government has called on technology developers, businesses and innovators to create digital services around Nigeria’s new National Digital Alphanumeric Postal Code System. The system is designed to provide digital postal code location information across Nigeria that can be used in various online and technology-based services. Minister for Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, said the launch …

Nigeria has evacuated another 106 citizens from South Africa amid rising anti-migrant tensions and concerns over xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other foreign nationals. The returnees arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Friday 2 October, two days after the 30 September deadline set by anti-migrant groups for undocumented foreigners to leave South Africa. Their arrival followed the return …

Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (oil), has responded to calls by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and former Anambra Governor, Peter Obi to restore petrol subsidies. The minister, who criticized the position of the two presidential candidates who expressed support for fuel subsidies, described the policy as financially unsustainable for Nigeria. Lokpobiri spoke on Friday during a …

About 5,000 law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) have appealed to the House of Representatives to intervene in their inability to proceed to the Nigerian Law School despite completing their programme. The graduates appealed before the House Committee on Public Petitions, expressing concern over the rejection of their names for mobilization at the Nigerian Law School. …

The families of 20 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) recruits who were abducted while traveling to an orientation camp have called for immediate intervention, following a ransom demand of N1 billion by their kidnappers. The prospective corps members, who were traveling from Ibadan, Oyo State, to their respective orientation camps, were reportedly kidnapped on Thursday along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in …

Youth leaders in the Labor Party have proposed opening discussions with the All Progressives Congress and groups allied to President Bola Tinubu on possible political collaboration ahead of the 2027 general elections. The proposal follows a virtual meeting involving the party’s National Youth Leader, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, five national zonal youth leaders and 32 state youth leaders. A statement signed …

Nothing is more indicative of progressive reform than telling a citizen that his or her light may be unstable so that a manufacturer can cool its executive water bottles to subzero temperatures. However, here’s the drift. After many years of financial illiquidity in the power sector, gloom in many parts of the country and recurring collapses of the national grid, …

The Nigerian Navy and the Federal Government’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Petroleum Theft have discovered a 40,000 liter capacity illegal refinery hidden in a tributary of Bonny Island, Rivers State. The facility was discovered in a joint intelligence-based operation coordinated through a Joint Intelligence Monitoring Team consisting of personnel from various security and intelligence agencies. Speaking to journalists in Bonny, …

The governor of Anambra state, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, administered the oath of office to the newly elected chairmen and their deputies for the 21 local government areas of the state, charging them to prioritize service delivery, accountability and respect for the law. The inauguration took place on Saturday at Government House in Awka, following the local government elections held on …

As campaigns for the January 2027 presidential election gather momentum, door-to-door movement PBAT has launched its grassroots mobilization campaign in Taraba State, calling on residents to support the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The movement, led by its Grand Patron, Senior Chief Minister Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, said the President’s reforms require more time to consolidate and deliver …