ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Christmas: Dangote crashes petrol price to N899.50K per litre Dangote Petroleum Refinery says it has cut down the price of its petrol to N899.50K per litre ahead of the Yuletide and New Year festive seasons. The company’s spokesman, Anthony Chiejina, said the price reduction is designed to ease transport costs during the festive…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Abuja high court grants Ex-gov Bello ₦500mn bail An Abuja High Court today granted ex-Kogi governor Yahaya Bello a ₦500mn bail in a case of ₦110,446,470,089 alleged fraud. The case is hinged on what the prosecution says breaches Sections 96 and 311 of the Penal Code Law Cap. 89, Laws of Northern Nigeria….
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesTinubu presents N47.9tn budget estimates to NASS ✓Defence/security – ₦4.91tn ✓ Infrastructure – ₦4.06tn ✓Education – ₦3.52tn ✓Health – ₦2.48tn President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, 18 December, 2024, presented his second annual budget totalling N47.9tn to the 11th National Assembly (NASS) sitting in a joint session. Christened, “Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity”,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares 614, 937 Nigerians killed, 2,235,954 kidnapped May 2023/April 2024 – NBS As many as 614, 937 Nigerians were killed and 2,235,954 others kidnapped within the country between May 2023 and April 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. The NBS disclosed this, 17 December, 2024, in its report, ‘The Crime…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse My Man of the Year! In fewer than 14 days from now, the year 2024 will roll by. By then, it would become history only to be remembered for what its rememberers experienced while it lasted. For some, the year has been one wherein so many untoward…
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ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Islamist rebels take over Syria as Assad flees country The 53 years of the Bashar al-Assad family’s rule over Syria was terminated rather shockingly early morning of Sunday, 8 December, when rebels romped into Damascus the country’s seat of power, forcing Assad to flee the country. He is said to be in asylum…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares3rd October, 2024 AKWA IBOM STATE POLICE COMMAND PRESS RELEASE Akwa Ibom State Police Command is Prepared for LG Elections with Restriction of Movements on Saturday, 5th October, 2024 Ahead of the Local Government elections billed to hold across the thirty one Local Government Areas in Akwa Ibom State on Saturday 5th October, 2024,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesTrump sweeps all battle ground states taking his electoral college votes tally to 312 US President-elect Donald Trump Saturday advanced his electoral victory by winning Arizona State and its 11 electoral college votes. With this development, Mr. Trump has swept all the battle ground states, taking his electoral college votes tally to 312, while…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Trump: Trials and triumphs of a political maverick – By Soney Antai Even the best of futurists could not forsee it coming. If anyone foresaw anything at all, what actually happened was different from what they saw, in mold and magnitude. One self-styled prophet had voiced what he passed off as a futurama,…
