Category: City Beat

Ondo 2020: Akeredolu settles N3.1b workers’ benefits

… Doctors’ strike suspend Interesting times are here for workers in On do state as the State Government has reportedly spent over N3.1 billion to offset...

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At last: Lagos revokes 2018 land use charge

  After a two year battle, the Lagos State Government has revoked the controversial 2018 land use charge. This was announced by the Lagos Commissioner for Finance,...

NNPC records 43 percent in oil pipeline vandalisation in May

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has recorded an encouraging 43 per cent drop in cases of willful damage of its oil pipeline infrastructure by...

Ex-NUJ treasurer killed by unknown gunmen

  Gunmen have killed a former treasurer of the Nasarawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Mr Benjamin Ekom. The killing of Ekom, who was also...

OPC condemns FG’s loans, say it is mortgaging Nigeria to China

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has condemned the Federal Government’s action on the loan arrangements with China, saying the government is tying the nation to the...

We’ll repatriate, prosecute Diezani, others – British govt

  The British Government has promised to work with the Federal Republic of Nigeria in ensuring the prosecution of former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke...

Buhari presides over enlarged Security Council meeting

Buhari presides over enlarged Security Council meeting President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presided over an ernlarged Security Council meeting at the Council Chamber,...

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Court remands woman for killing step son with rat poison

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a 25-year-old woman, Amina Haruna, who allegedly killed her stepson with rat poison, be remanded pending legal...

Illegal taxation: Drivers withdraw service in Calabar

  Commercial taxi drivers in Calabar on Monday withdrew their services to protest alleged illegal taxation by some thugs and local government officials in the...

BuhariInsecurity:Resign now, northern elders tell Buhari

RevolutuionNow: Another mass action against Buhari govt for August 5

  Barely a years after its aborted mass action against the ruling government, the organisers of RevolutionNow has unveiled its plan for another mass nationwide...