The Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has promised to develop the country’s mining sector, if elected in 2023.This, he said, was to create job opportunities, boost socio-economic activities and improve on the standard of living of Nigerians. Tinubu made the pledge at a town hall meeting on Mining and Security…
Governor Charles Soludo has reeled out reasons why the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) will not take the hard decision of supporting the former governor of the state, Peter Obi, in his presidential aspiration under the Labor Party (LP). Soludo, who is the leader of APGA, said that supporting LP’s presidential candidate will ruin the…
The Oyo State police Command has urged residents of the state not to panic as it is working towards ending the spate of abductions along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Newspremises reports. Recent reports of kidnappings along the busy freeway have been made. On November 9, some kidnappers attempting to kidnap the occupants of a commercial bus…
A Man Identified as Ebuka Francis Ugwu, has allegedly committed suicide in Jere town, Kaduna State. It was gathered that Ebuka, from Nsukka, Enugu State, died after he allegedly drank a poisonous substance suspected to be insecticide. A Source who spoke to the roommate of the deceased told ROTV24 that the incident happened in the…
The army says it will not rest until it rescues Bassey Ikunugwan, a staff sergeant, who was reportedly abducted in Ohafia in Abia state. In a statement on Wednesday, Onyema Nwachukwu, director of army public relations, said the soldier was abducted on November 2. He, however, added that the army has been conducting search-and-rescue operations for the…
The Federal Government says it has no plan to ban any social media platform but will not watch any medium to throw the country into chaos.Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said this on Thursday while presenting the scorecard of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government from 2015 to 2022. At the press conference in Abuja, the minister…
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has set aside the contempt proceedings and all the orders of conviction for contempt against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa. Justice Chizoba Oji set aside the proceedings on Thursday after hearing an application brought by the EFCC Chairman. The application was…
Ghana’s inflation figure jumped to a 40.4 percent high in October compared to 37.2 percent last month. This was revealed in a statement by Ghana Government Statistician, Mr Samuel Annim, on Wednesday. By implication, the figure will impact the pressure on the country’s central bank to continue increasing borrowing costs, already at a five-year high….
U.S. inflation eased to 7.7% in October, raising hopes that high prices have begun to slow down Consumer price increases eased to 7.7% in October, a sign that the persistent inflation that has plagued the U.S. economy is showing glimmers of cooling off, even as it remains near four-decade highs. The new data compare with a…
The president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, said he told King Charles III that he has no house in the United Kingdom during his visit to the monarch. Buhari revealed this while responding to a question in a 25-second video posted by his special assistant on digital media, Tolu Ogunlesi, on Twitter. The…