Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu said yesterday that this week’s hike in electricity tariff for Band A customers was informed by the realization that spending almost 10 per cent of the nation’s national budget on...

The Senate has postponed the resumption of plenary sessions originally slated for Tuesday, April 16, to Tuesday, April 23, 2024. This adjustment, our correspondent learnt, was said to be necessary to accommodate the completion...

President Bola Tinubu on Friday approved the appointment of Uzoma Nwagba as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation. Nwagba’s appointment is “In keeping with his dedicated efforts to ensure...

Long queues built up in filling stations across Lagos State on Friday, creating fears of impending fuel scarcity. Our correspondent, who went around the city, gathered that the queues in some of the filling...

The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has applied for the restoration of his bail before the Federal High Court, Abuja. Kanu’s legal team led by his Special Counsel, Barr...

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, on Thursday, impounded no fewer than 85 motorcycles, also known as okada, in different areas of the state. The RRS disclosed this...

IBEDC restores power to UCH after 16-day blackout Sixteen days after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company disconnected University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State, for owing N495m, power has been restored to the health...

The leadership of the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) yesterday directed its members who are field engineers to embark on an indefinite strike. In a statement, the General Secretary...

Nigeria is on the path of sustainable economic recovery and prosperity, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured. He also promised that the inflation crisis would be over soon with the bringing down of the...

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, said he would support a proposal for the direct election of members into the parliament of the Economic Community of West African States. Tinubu said the move would give...