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The federal government has said it will launch a major investigation into the supply of adulterated petrol which is currently in circulation in the country. This is as a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been accused by an oil marketing firm, MRS Oil, of being responsible for the importation of the […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday fired back at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying expectations that the opposition party under the Dr Iyiorcha Ayu-led leadership would denounce impunity had been dimmed.

Specifically, APC noted that going by the utterances and direction of the new PDP leadership, any hope of a refocused opposition party expected to atone for misdeeds against the country when it was in government for 16 years and as a failed opposition party following its sack in 2015 had now been quickly dashed.

National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Congress Committee members on Monday filed a motion before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal for a stay of execution of an FCT High Court ruling that voided the Kano ward congresses conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who stated this in a statement in Abuja also revealed that the APC was contesting the jurisdiction of the court to entertain such case brought before it.

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former vice president Atiku Abubakar has commenced consultation in the North Central region, a zone that is also eying the presidential seat.

While many think it was a coincidence, the former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura has also commenced campaign for the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairmanship position at the North Central Peoples Forum (NCPF) insisting that in 2023, the region can produce both the president and the chairman of the party.

As the debate over direct primaries rage, the resident electoral commissioner (REC) in Akwa Ibom State, Barrister Mike Igini, has warned that it might ruin the entire Electoral Act Amendment Bill just like the infamous “third term” saga ruined the good bills the lawmakers of the Fifth Assembly had promulgated at the time.

Igini likened the anxiety generated by the debate on the mode of party primaries to the third term controversy that led to throwing away the constitution amendment bill by the National Assembly in 2006.

Travellers in the country are currently weighing the options of either travelling by air or road amid 100 per cent increase in air fares. Air passengers heading to the eastern and northern parts of the country during the festive season by air have lamented the scarcity and high cost of air tickets for their trips […]

Zenith Bank’s group managing director/CEO, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, has emerged CEO of the Year for a second consecutive year at the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility (SERAS) CSR Africa Awards held at the weekend in Lagos. According to the judges, he was selected for a number of reasons, including engendering a culture that promotes the continued […]

The Ibrahim Shekarau faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has named officials in the government of Abdullahi Ganduje, including two commissioners and four local government chairmen, as those behind a recent arson attack on the campaign office of Senator Barau Jibrin.

In a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, dated December 2, 2021, Shakarau along with five other lawmakers, asked the police chiefs to investigate and prosecute the officials.

Despite ECOWAS trade liberalisation scheme, the problem of free movement of seeds within the ECOWAS region  still persists. This was among the challenges identified by stakeholders at the 4th edition of Seed Connect Africa 2021 Conference and Exhibition in Abuja to be hampering availability of quality seed for farmers in Nigeria. In a communique issued […]

Commercial banks in Nigeria in the last three years, disbursed over N7 trillion in loans and advances to customers, a feat the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said was achieved  through its loans to deposit ratio (LDR) policy. This was stated by the CBN deputy governor, Financial Systems Stability, Mrs. Aishah Ahmad, yesterday at the […]