The All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) have expressed confidence that they will meet the deadline for uploading the names of their governorship and State House of Assembly candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Candidate Nomination Portal (ICNP) ahead of the August 8 deadline. While the APC […]
Marketers of petroleum products have stated that the loading of fuel has been put on hold at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery following the facility’s decision to sell fuel in dollars. Many marketers told The PUNCH on Sunday that the facility was not even loading its trucks, sparking fear of possible fuel tightness across the country. […]
Nigeria’s imports of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking gas, jumped by 1,400 per cent in June 2026 as domestic supply weakened, raising fresh concerns over the country’s growing dependence on imported fuel despite its vast natural gas reserves. Data from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) for June 2026 […]
Team Nigeria has won the Gold Award in the Middle School Group Category at the 2026 Spelling Bee World Cup in Shanghai, China. The achievement was announced by the Nigeria Spelling Bee on its official Facebook page on Sunday. The organisation wrote, “Team Nigeria has won the Gold Award in the Middle School Group Category […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a pre-election suit filed by former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, challenging the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Justice Joyce Abdulmalik struck out the suit on Friday after Amaechi’s counsel, Jibrin Okutepa (SAN), informed […]
The overall best candidate in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Daniella Owoeye Jesudunsin, has been awarded a ₦1 million scholarship in recognition of her outstanding performance in the examination. Owoeye announced the development in a Facebook post on Wednesday while expressing appreciation to members of the Ekiti Parapo in Indiana, United States, for the […]
The Presidency has commended Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma for what it described as the scale and quality of infrastructure development across the state, saying the projects reflect purposeful leadership and effective collaboration between the Federal and Imo State governments. The commendation came during the Renewed Hope Ambassadors National Media Tour, an initiative of the […]
The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has released the second part of his proposed roadmap for Nigeria, outlining policy proposals on education and healthcare. The roadmap was contained in a statement signed by Idris Zekeri Jnr, Spokesman of the Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR), on […]
Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, instituted a N15 billion defamation suit against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Abuja, over allegations that he demanded a 48 per cent kickback from a N27.3 billion take-off grant approved for a federal agency. Adeyemi is Director-General of the […]
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, yesterday said headline inflation rate slowed Month-on-Month (MoM) by 0.02 percentage point to 15.91 percent in June 2026 from 15.93 percent in May. The decline is coming after three consecutive months rise in headline inflation rate since March 2026. However, despite the moderation in inflation rate, the food index […]
