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Lack of adequate investment in the downstream sector has been fingered as the cause of the perennial fuel scarcity and its attendant long queues in filling stations across the country. The Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Pinnacle Oil and Gas Limited, Peter Mbah stated this, weekend, while speaking to State House correspondents shortly after the company paid a thank-you visit …

On the first day of January 2023, Mike Igini, a past Resident Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Akwa Ibom State used the occasion of the New Year to pass some profound messages to Nigerians which are worth reflecting deeply upon. “The future direction of Nigeria is up to the people…The 2022 Electoral Act, INEC processes and …

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed broke down in tears during the Town Hall meeting organized by Channels Television while speaking about insults directed at his family by political opponents. During the event, which was held on Sunday night, Baba-Ahmed recalled how his family and the memory of his late father became objects of ridicule by …

The founder of DAAR Communications Limited, owners of AIT Radio and Television, Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been released by the United Kingdom police. Dokpesi was arrested yesterday at Heathrow Airport in London. Media sources had it that Dokpesi was delayed on Sunday by Immigration after a trip from Frankfurt on a Lufthansa airlines flight that arrived in the UK. However, …

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday breached security barriers set up by the Armed Forces and gained access to key buildings for the three branches of government, including the congressional building, the Supreme Court and the Planalto Presidential Palace. Footage showed massive crowds in the capital of Brasília walking up a ramp that leads to the congressional …

President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday following relentless calls from Republicans who believe the trip is overdue, promising to do whatever is needed to help with the migrant crisis in the area. The trip to the border – the first for Biden since he took office – comes as the administration wrestles with a growing number of …

…One victim regains freedom …Security agencies, vigilante, local hunters comb bushes Security operatives have arrested one of the suspected kidnappers involved in the kidnapping of 32 passengers at the Igueben train station, in Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State, Edo State Commissioner for Communications and Orientation, Hon. Chris Nehikhare said on Sunday. The commissioner disclosed this during a press …

Nigeria’s Federal Government has described the kidnapping of train passengers at Tom Ikimi Train Station, Igueben in Edo as despicable and utterly barbaric. The Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Transportation, Mr Henshaw Ogubike, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. “The Public is hereby reassured that the security agencies are making efforts to rescue the …

There was partial disruption of collection of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in some parts of Ikpoba Okha Local Council of Edo State, on Friday and Saturday, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) begins the distribution of the PVCs at ward level. The Head of INEC Voters’ Education in Edo State, Timidi Wariowe, in a statement in Benin City, …

WASHINGTON (A — President Joe Biden is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, his first trip there as president after two years of hounding by Republicans who have hammered him as soft on border security while the number of migrants crossing spirals. Biden is due to spend a few hours in El Paso, Texas, currently the biggest corridor for illegal crossings, due in large part to …