Wednesday, March 19, 2025
PRESS RELEASE ONDO ELECTIONS: IGP DEPLOYS DIG ALABI AS DIG ELECTIONS, EMPLACES WATERTIGHT SECURITY. Orders Restriction of Movement During Elections. The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM., has announced comprehensive security measures aimed at ensuring a peaceful, transparent, and credible electoral process during the upcoming Ondo off-season […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company limited, NNPCL, has disclosed that it’s a proud part-owner of the Dangote Refinery. This was disclosed by NNPCL’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari at a conference hosted by the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists in Lagos on Monday. Following the commencement of the refinery, […]
The South African pay-TV operator MultiChoice Group disclosed that its Nigerian unit, MultiChoice Nigeria, lost 243,000 subscribers on its Digital Satellite Television (DStv) and General Entertainment on Television (GOtv) services from April to September this year. The company revealed these figures in its Interim Financial Results for the period ending 30 […]
The chairman of the Ogun State Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), George Onafowokan, has lamented the crisis in Nigeria’s manufacturing sector following the government’s decision to float the Naira in 2023. According to him, 16 major manufacturing firms have incurred cumulative losses amounting to N792 billion due to naira depreciation. […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that billionaire Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy will head up a new temporary agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Trump in a statement said the two “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful […]
Melania Trump will not join Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, despite receiving an invitation from President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to attend. Traditionally, when the outgoing president hosts the incoming president-elect in the Oval Office, the first lady hosts her successor for tea in […]
The management of Dangote Refinery is set to meet with officials of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria to discuss direct petrol supply arrangements. This development comes just a day after the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria announced it had reached an agreement with Dangote Refinery […]
The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,730 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,740 per dollar last weekend However, the Naira depreciated to N1,681.42 per dollar in the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM rose to N1,681.42 per dollar from […]
Hon. Justice Muhammad Hamza of the Portharcourt Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has declared the non-payment of Mr Ikenna’s salary for the period of October 2021 to January 2022, by Alcon Nigeria Limited as a breach of the contract of employment. The Court ordered Alcon Nigeria Limited to […]
Hon. Justice Anthony Ubaka of the Lagos Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court has declared that Pastor Femi remained an employee of the Registered Trustees of Mountain of Fire & Miracle Ministry throughout the period of his arrest till the date of judgment delivery. The Court ordered the Registered […]