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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources on Oil Heineken Lokpobiri has reiterated that the Port Harcourt Refining Company PHRC Limited would be back on stream by December as part of the government’s commitment to ending petroleum product importation as soon as efforts are being redoubled to restore the nation’s local refining capacity. Lokpobiri said this in a statement yesterday by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum […]

The Court of Appeal in Owerri in Imo State has sacked Julius Abura and recognized Lamido Apapa as the National Chairman of the Labor Party. The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to immediately recognize and publish the names of all the governorship candidates produced by the Apapa-led National Working Committee in Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi states. The court also dismissed the governorship candidature of Athan Achonu […]

President Bola Tinubu has redeployed the former Governor of Osun State and minister-designate Adegboyega Oyetola from the Ministry of Transportation to the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, and Abubakar Momoh, from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Development with immediate effect.   Tinubu also redeployed a minister-designate Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, to the Ministry of Interior while Sa’idu Alkali was redeployed as the Minister of […]

President Bola Tonubu has released the portfolios for the 45 confirmed ministerial nominees with former Governor of Ebonyi State David Umahi in Charge of the Ministry of Works, former governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike for Federal Capital Territory FCT, former governor of Osun, Gboyega Oyetola for transportation and Festus Keyamo manning the Ministry of Aviation.   Other ministers are Wale Edun for Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, […]

The National Youth Service Corps NYSC orientation exercise is scheduled to resume in Borno State 13 years after the three-week course was suspended over recurring attacks by Boko Haram insurgents.   The NYSC took to Twitter yesterday to notify prospective corps members deployed to the state’s second stream of the Batch ‘B’ orientation course of a change of venue.   All Prospective Corps Members PCMs deployed to Borno are to reprint their Call-up letters […]

President Bola Tinubu has guaranteed Nigerians that there would be no further increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit PMS popularly known as petrol, anywhere in the country.   The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale noted that the market has been deregulated and will remain so, adding that they will address the inefficiencies within the midstream and downstream petroleum subsectors to maintain […]

The Director General of, National Emergency Management Agency NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed Habib has urged Nigerians to constantly evacuate solid waste that clog drainage systems, avoid building on flood plains and move to higher grounds whenever there was an early warning of a looming flood disaster. Habib gave this warning during the handover of humanitarian relief items to the Enugu State Government, for the second batch of the onward distribution to […]

The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria Most Rev Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji has encouraged President Bola Tinubu to discourage heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States from using military strength to subdue coup plotters in Niger Republic. Ugorji in his appeal yesterday during a pastoral visit to the Mary Mother of God Catholic Parish in Upe, Ngo Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State […]

The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria Most Rev Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji has encouraged President Bola Tinubu to discourage heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States from using military strength to subdue coup plotters in Niger Republic. Ugorji in his appeal yesterday during a pastoral visit to the Mary Mother of God Catholic Parish in Upe, Ngo Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State […]