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Rivers Govt Reads Riot Act To Unregistered Private Schools
By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi NIGERIA: As public and private primary and secondary schools in Rivers State reopen today for the 2024/2025 academic session, the state government has advised private schools operating without government approval to shut down. It advised owners of such schools to immediately approach the Quality Assurance Department…
Read More »Man Axes Mother to Death, sets Body Ablaze
The bustling city of Sapele in Delta State was thrown into shock at the weekend following the macabre murder of the wife of one Mrs. Faith Umukoro, purportedly by her 25-year-old son. The suspect, identified as Emmanuel Umukoro, a deranged young man with a history of regular and excessive drug…
Read More »USAID offers $6.5m Flood-related Assistance to Nigeria
By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi USA: The U.S. Agency for International Development has offered $6.5 million in assistance to flood-related victims in Nigeria. USAID disclosed this in a press statement and said the assistance was part of USAID’s Fiscal Year 2024 support to assist local partners, including the International Organization for…
Read More »Ogoni Youths Back NDDC MD, Flay Calls for his Sack
By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi NIGERIA: The Joint Representatives Council of Ogoni Youth Groups (JRC) has strongly condemned and refuted a recent press statement by Raymond Nwibani, calling for the removal of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission. In a statement signed by Ledogo Amabu, JRC…
Read More »Bebenimibo Slams Oborevwori on Deplorable State of Eku-Abraka-Agbor road
A chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State, Dr Paul Bebenimibo, has urged the state governor, Sheriff Oborevwori to urgently address infrastructure challenges, including dilapidated federal roads in the state. Dr Bebenimibo, a former Commission of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, tasked Oborevwori to…
Read More »Many Marriages on the Brink, as Men Demand DNA Tests on Children
DNA Report Place Men on Quest for Paternity Tests NIGERIA: There is tension in many Nigerian homes as men angle to know the right paternity of their children in the wake of a recent report that showed that more than 27% of children born in Nigeria are given to the…
Read More »BBL: Lekki Doctor Arrested over Patient’s Death
NIGERIA: Police in Lagos have arrested Idera Bassey, a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) doctor over a failed surgery that led to the death of a patient in the highbrow Lekki area of the state. Sources said the victim, simply identified as Abiola, slumped and died after a nurse at Idera…
Read More »Another mass protest looms over petrol price hike
Prices of foodstuffs, transportation, others to go up Tuesday’s increase in the pump price of PMS across the country by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, could trigger another civil unrest, an investigation by NDN has revealed. The NNPCL adjusted pump prices by up to 80% across its outlets…
Read More »Dangote petrol to hit market, hours after NNPC price increase
Africa’s richest man, Mr Aliko Dangote, on Tuesday, announced that the much-awaited Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from his 650,000 barrels per day refinery will hit the market within 48 hours. The announcement by the Dangote Refinery CEO came amidst Tuesday’s adjustment of pump price by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company…
Read More »NNPC up petrol price to N885/litre outside Lagos
Motorists in Port Harcourt, Benin City and Lagos woke up to a further increase in pump prices at the official outlets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of up to N885 per litre. Till the recent petrol scarcity, Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) sold at N591 per litre at the NNPC…
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