Marketers say 65 percent of the one million metric tonnes of cooking gas consumed in Nigeria annually is imported Marketers of cooking gas on Wednesday gave reason for the continuous  increase in the price of the commodity saying the blame is the fluctuating price in the international market. It will be recalled that consumers have been worrying why the price ...

  “The present arrangement is a fruition of a handshake across the old boundaries by the old Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, gripped by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which resulted in the rise to power of the APC.” A special investigation carried out by Pegasus Reporters nationwide indicates that political party aspirants in states where their parties were in the ...

  The Indian health minister, Harsh Vardhan, on Monday, told the media that India will launch its home-made COVID-19 in January next year. The minister who was reacting to media prompts as to what the country was doing to arrest the increasing rate of spread of the disease said the government’s priority has been the safety and efficacy of the ...

  The Youths are Protesting the Appointment of a Sole Administrator for the NDDC Early morning travelers along the East-West Road were stranded for hours on Monday as Ijaw Youths protested over the appointment of Effiong Okon-Awka as Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Sole Administrator. Citing “a plethora of litigations” which would hinder the operation of the interim management committee, ...

  “Unfortunately, the results of the speaker and that of the clerk turned out positive,” The Speaker of the Niger House of Assembly, Bawa Wuse and the Clerk, Mohammed Kagara, are in islolation after testing positive for COVID-19. The state Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mohammed Idris gave this indication while speaking reporters on Sunday in Minna. Mr. Idris also, ...

The party’s scribe gave this indication to welcome defecting federal lawmakers into its fold. The All Progressives Congress says defecting member to it from opposition political parties will be granted a waiver as they will add value to its growth and development. Secretary of the APC Caretaker and Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CEOCPC) John Akpanudoedehe, made this remark on Sunday ...

  The Top Bureaucrat Was 57. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA  The Director General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos, Habu Galadima is dead. Brig.-Gen. C.F.J. Udaya, the Secretary and Director of Administration of the Institute announced the death in a statement on Sunday in Jos. Mr. Galadima, 57, died Sunday morning after a ...

  The two judicial officers have also been recommended for immediate retirement. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges; Shu’aibu Talba, the Grand Kadi of Yobe, and Abdulkareem Abdulrasaq, a judge of the Osun High Court for alleged age falsification. Soji Oye, the spokesman for NJC in a statement released ...

  Following the discovery of a deadlier new strain of corona-virus in the UK, a number of European countries have started placing ban on flights from that country to avoid the spread of the variant that is ravaging it. As at the time of this report, both Netherlands and Belgium have reportedly slammed a ban on flights from the UK. ...

  In “Music To Be Murdered By” Rapper Eminem has apologise to singer Rihanna following a video leak from a song he did with Chris Brown some years ago saying “it was wrong he took side Chris Brown…” and ask for forgiveness. It will be recalled that some lyrics of the controversial song led to what was adjudged an an ...