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Following the recent adjustment of the price of petrol to N145 per litre by the federal government, sales of the product have drastically reduced by about as much as 40 per cent, according to the Chairman, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) and Group Chief Executive Officer of Forte Oil Plc, Mr. Akin Akinfemiwa. It also emerged yesterday that …

Tragedy has hit Nigeria football again as former Super Eagles coach Shuaibu Amodu died just days after another national team coach Stephen Keshi passed away. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced Saturday that Amodu, 58, died after complaining of chest problems. On Wednesday, Keshi, 54, died suddenly in Benin City. Amodu, four-time Super Eagles coach, died in his sleep in …

Political tension heightened last Monday among the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirants in Edo state following allegation that some of the contestants were buying Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) of some of the delegates ahead the June 18 governorship primaries of the party One of the aspirants, Dr Ogiemwonyi has even called on the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase …

The Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation and for, Amodu Shuaibu, has died at ‎the age of 58, four days after the death of a former coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi. The Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Kassim Afegbua, who incidentally is a relative of the late Shuaibu, told our correspondent at the Stella Obasanjo …

Erstwhile Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, Mr. David Shikfu Paradang, on Friday, narrated before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, how the botched recruitment exercise that led to the death of 20 persons across the country in 2014, was planned and executed. Paradang, who insisted that he was not fully carried along by the former Minister …

Osun State Christian Association of Nigeria, OSCAN, has directed all female Christian students in both primary and secondary schools in the state to wear their church garments to their different schools, beginning from Monday. There was however palpable tension in some schools in different parts of the State including Osogbo, the state capital yesterday over the controversy on the use …

The bungalow situated on Fast Fast junction, Olaogun area, along Old Ife Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, is no doubt an old one, with some of its rusted roofing sheets held in place with disused tyres and stones. As the Nigerian Tribune approached the house on Monday, May 30, bow-legged Madam Olatutu Awoniran, in her 70s, wobbled to welcome this writer. …

Massachusetts senator endorses presumptive Democratic nominee and puts herself in the frame as possible vice-presidential candidate. Senator Elizabeth Warren has declared herself ready to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the US presidential election. The Massachusetts senator – popular among the progressive wing of the Democratic party – made the declaration shortly after endorsing Clinton, calling her “a fighter with …

By Oaldipo Airenakho Ekpoma, Nigeria – Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Thursday flagged off the construction of dual-carriage intra-city roads in Ekpoma, Edo Central Senatorial district, saying his government will work till its last day. The 7.5-kilometre intra-city roads, is to be completed in three months, Oshiomhole said, adding that his government has worked tremendously in all parts …

Want to end extreme poverty? Technology hyper-billionaire Bill Gates says the answer is chickens. And that’s not the name of new Microsoft software. Gates, the founder of the world’s largest software company, says the best thing to improve the lives of the world’s poorest is not computers or the Internet but raising a few roosters and hens. “It’s pretty clear …