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The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, grew worse across the country on Thursday, as massive queues were witnessed in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri, Nasarawa, Minna, among other places. Oil marketers stated that the scarcity became worse due to the fact that dealers could hardly access the product from the only two depots that were dispensing …

•Insists banks must load, issues new notes through ATMs before January 31 •Says deadline sacrosanct As public anger over the scarcity of new naira notes persists, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Thursday stormed various banks’ Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to ascertain their level of compliance with dispensing the redesigned naira notes. This was even as the CBN said it …

Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, Chairman, Media & Publicity Committee of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council in Edo State has called on members of the Obidient Movement home and abroad to resist all forms of intimidation by any group. Nowinta made the call while speaking to journalists in his office in Benin City, Edo State on Thursday as the 2023 presidential election …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON At least one person was allegedly shot to death and several others injured during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally at Ewu Community in Esan Central local government area of Edo State on Wednesday. It was gathered that the tragedy which occurred in ward 7, forced the PDP to suspended its campaign rally at the Edo …

As the cases of Lassa fever continue to rise in Edo State, several efforts by the state government to reach the federal government and the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire for support to contain the disease and protect residents have not yielded any positive response. The State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare made this known on Wednesday …

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, revoked the bail earlier granted to one Sydney Mmeka, a former Regional Manager, Access Bank Plc, charged with N50 million fraud. Mmeka is being prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mmeka is standing trial on five counts bordering …

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, January 19, 2023, reserved judgment in the money laundering trial of a former Head of Service of the Federation, HoS, Steve Oronsaye till April 5, 2023. Oronsaye is facing trial, alongside Osarenkhoe Afe, Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited, Cluster Logistics Limited, Kangalo Dynamic Cleaning Limited and Drew Investment and …

Governor Sanwo-Olu says when completed, “the rail project would move no less than 250,000 passengers daily, while the entire line when completed would move more than 500,000 passengers.” President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday commission the 13 kilometres first phase of the Lagos Blue Rail Line. The Blue Line is expected to be 27 km long, connecting Okokomaiko to Marina. The …

•Says inflammatory statements by politicians, clerics threatening Nigeria’s corporate existence •Decries failure of INEC, security agencies to check trend The National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, has said the South East zone of the country should produce the next president in next month’s general elections in the interest of equity, justice and peace. It also warned against inflammatory statements by the …

•IPMAN to sell petrol at N270/litre as supply gap widens, lingers •NNPC GMD defends subsidy, oil production now 1.52mbpd As the petrol scarcity across the country continues to linger, oil marketers have accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited of politicising the supply process and making vain promises. The oil marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association …