Category: News

Folasade Adu, a former aide to Ondo State’s immediate past First Lady, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, has come forward with allegations of abandonment after serving the late Governor Rotimi Akerdolu’s wife for seven years without any form of reward.   Adu alleged that while working with the ex-first lady, she was paid N50,000 as salary, out of which N5,100 was deducted monthly for seven years.   An emotional Adu disclosed this in an interview with Ondo-based journalist, Prince Olujimi Adekale, on Monday, April 22, 2024.   Adu claimed that when she…

Read More

The Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, has announced dates for the backlog of fixtures involving Rivers United. The NPFL also announced that the league would embark on a temporary break to allow the one-time NPFL champions complete all their outstanding fixtures. The league will be paused after this weekend’s matchday 32 games. It will resume with matchday 33 games on the weekend of May 25-26. The rearranged fixtures involving Rivers United, according to the NPFL, has been made to ease the logistics of travels as game dates have been fixed…

Read More

 Hamma Bello, a prosecution witness, in the trial of Winifred Oyo-Ita, former head of service (HoS), has told a federal high court in Abuja how the first defendant and her subordinates allegedly diverted public funds into their private companies.   Oyo-Ita (first defendant) is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside Ugbong Okon Effiok (seventh defendant), Garba Umar (fourth defendant), her special assistants, and six companies: Frontline Ace Global Services Limited; Asanaya Projects Limited; Slopes International Limited; U and U Global Services Ltd; Prince Mega Logistics…

Read More

An Air Peace plane coming from Port Harcourt made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Thursday after the pilots noticed a fire warning indicator in the cockpit. The aircraft, which had 243 passengers and 12 crew members on board, landed safely at 4:45pm on Runway18L of the Lagos airport. The pilots immediately shut down the engines of the aircraft after fire fighting personnel reportedly observed smoke on the engines. The call sign of the aircraft is: APK7193. Air Peace, in a statement, said it was later…

Read More

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, on Thursday that the prices of petroleum products are not changing.   NNPCL disclosed this in a statement issued by its Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye.   Soneye also blamed logistic issues for the tightness in the supply of fuel in some parts of Nigeria.   He, however, assured that the issue has been resolved.   Soneye urged Nigerians to avoid panic buying as there is a sufficiency of products in the country.   The statement read in part: “NNPC Ltd says…

Read More

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State said on Thursday that civil servants in the state have been receiving N70,000 minimum wage since January.   Sanwo-Olu said his administration has been paying workers an additional N35,000 wage allowance since January.   Speaking at a function on Thursday, the governor assured workers that his administration would soon dole out a new minimum wage scheme.   He said: “The civil servants and all public officers in Lagos know that since January, we have continued to pay the wage allowance of a minimum of…

Read More

Nigerian airline operator Air Peace will commence its Abuja-London route very soon.   This was disclosed by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, on Thursday.   Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, the minister said he has given the approval for Air Peace to add Abuja to its London route.   Air Peace recently commenced its Lagos-Gatwick flights, gathering commendation from many Nigerians.   Following the commencement of the Lagos-London route, other airlines crashed their prices, a situation that led to the owner of Air Peace,…

Read More

  Telecommunications operators in Nigeria say their services are overdue for price increments as they have not raised rates in the last 11 years.   The operators spoke in a joint statement by the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), on Thursday.   The telecommunications sector, according to the statement, is the only industry that has not reviewed its prices despite the country’s rising inflation rate as well as other economic realities that warrant increment.   They attributed the…

Read More