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Buhari toes path of predecessors; violates Nigeria’s procurement law

Despite promises made during the 2015 election, President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to inaugurate the National Council on Public Procurement, NCPP, as required by the Public Procurement Act 2007Ā  Premium Time NG reports. Instead, the...

EFCC arrests Nigerian ex-president campaign chief, Ngozi Olojeme for stealing $48.5 million

The former campaign chief of Nigeria’s ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has been arrested for allegedly stealing $48.5 million from state coffers to fund his failed 2015 re-election bid, an official said Tuesday. Ngozi Olojeme was head...

Monumental Fraud! How NNPC staff force Oil Marketers to buy allocations from family, friends...

How fuel allocations are diverted to Emirs’ sons, top politicians’s nephews, First class Kings, ministers’ girlfriends and military officers’ in-lawsĀ - It is a major cause of fuel scarcity – Oil marketers The anti-corruption war is...

Serena Williams to make surprise comeback in Abu Dhabi, targets Australian Open

Former world number one Serena Williams will make a surprise comeback at the Mubadala exhibition event in Abu Dhabi next Saturday, as she gears up for her Australian Open title defence in January. The decision...

Fuel Scarcity: NNPC reveals landing cost of petrol N171, sticks to N145 per litre

Agency ReportĀ Ā Ā Ā  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) revealed today that the landing cost of imported petrol is now N171 per litre, but emphatically stated that it will continue to make it available to...

Fuji Music Creator: K1 is mischievous; Fuji can never produce another Barrister-Late singer’s publicist

ā€œWasiu Ayinde can tell his cooked up stories to people of little minds like him.ā€ ā€œOnly a person with a low thinking facultyĀ would want to rewrite history.ā€ In a published interview, DayoĀ Odeyemi,Ā a publicist to the late...

Buhari sympathizes with Nigerians on lingering fuel scarcity

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said he regretted the lingering fuel scarcity currently being experienced in the country. He said he has directed relevant regulators to step up ā€œsurveillance and bring an end to...

China shuts Google, Facebook, Twitter, 13,000 other websites, blocks 10m users

China has shut down or revoked the licenses of 13,000 websites, it terms ā€˜illegal’ since 2015 for violating the country’s internet rules, Xinhua reported Sunday. Wang Shengjun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the...
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Local Pools: PDP clears 17 LGs, 177 councillorship seats in Ekiti

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won all the 16 local government chairmanship and 177 Councillorship seats in the local polls conducted in Ekiti State on Saturday. Addressing newsmen and other stakeholders, Chairman of the Ekiti...

Fuel Scarcity: APC appeals for patience, says Govt is making efforts

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the Federal Government on the current fuel crisis in the country. A statement issued by Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s spokesperson on Saturday,...