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The Department of Petroleum Resources, yesterday, said it was working round the clock to bring the fuel scarcity currently witnessed across the country is brought to an end, especially as the supply of the product is expected to improve in the next couple of days. Fuel crisis This was even as some petrol dealers and marketers disclosed that the major …

South African President, Jacob Zuma, has welcomed the court judgement asking him to pay back part of the money spent on upgrading his Nkandla homestead. Zuma said in a televised address to the nation on Friday that he was willing to pay back money spent on non-security related upgrades at the house. The President, in the address, urged “all parties …

In a separate meeting with the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffery Onyema, Kerry said the US would invest, at least, $600 million in Nigeria in 2016. Kerry, who disclosed this during the opening session of the US-Nigeria Bi-national Commission meeting, reiterated the commitment of the US government to Nigeria’s growth. He said his country had been encouraged by President Muhammadu …

President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, in the United States that he would not sign the 2016 Appropriation Bill, passed into law by the National Assembly, last week, unless he critically reviewed it. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari a meeting on the sidelines of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit at the Washington Convention Center in …

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, has said the Nigerian Air Force would deploy a maritime aircraft to the South-South region to assist the Nigerian Navy in policing the creeks in Cross River, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. Abubakar said this on Thursday in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, during his maiden visit to the …

A would-be suicide bomber who was arrested in Cameroon is not one of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped nearly two years ago from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok. The Murtala Muhammed Foundation said three representatives of the Chibok schoolgirls’ parents reviewed photographs of the girl at its offices but she and a woman also detained “do not fit …

The Lagos State Government has revealed plans to cancel restriction during the monthly environmental sanitation in the state by the end of the year. The Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Babatunde Adejare, stated this on Thursday at the monthly briefing of the ministry. “Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, in line with his responsive government, hopes to discontinue restriction during the monthly environmental …

To cushion the debilitating effect of the falling oil prices on Nigerians and effectively revitalize the economy, the South-South South-East Professionals have called on president Muhammadu Buhari to declare a 3 year state of emergency on the sector. The professionals who noted that the economy of the country was currently in a bad state, said that unless proactive measures were …

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more injured when a flyover collapsed in a busy Indian city on Thursday, an official said, as emergency workers battled to rescue people trapped under the rubble. The flyover was under construction when it collapsed onto a crowded street in the eastern city of Kolkata around lunchtime, crushing pedestrians, cars and other …

Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, PDP, Delta North, said yesterday that if President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, was removed from his present position by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, the opposition political party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would produce his successor. Saraki in dock Nwaoboshi, who noted that Saraki had been obeying …