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As Power Minister visits, assures on electricity improvement. Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, said that his administration has begun to take advantage of the Electricity Act 2023 to transform the power supply situation in the state. He described the new law as a game changer in the electricity sector, stating that the state will soon key into it, as it is set to sign its own version of the law soon. The governor stated this on Monday, when he received the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan. Governor…

Ajaero noted that other issues that were yet to be implemented by the federal government include the Port Harcourt refineries, CNG buses, and wage awards, among others. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says that the N35,000 wage award agreement with the Federal Government will continue until a new minimum wage is determined. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. It would be recalled that President Bola Tinubu, on October 1, had approved N35,000 as the provisional wage increment for all Treasury-paid workers for six months.…

Russian man identified as “Viktor,” who allegedly stormed into a hair salon in the town of Meshchovsk waving a pistol and demanding money. The owner of the shop was a “delicate” 28-year-old woman by the name of Olga. When Viktor tried to take her money, Olga took him by surprise, punched him in the chest, and flipped him onto the ground. She had a black belt in martial arts. Olga bound and gagged Viktor with a hair-dryer chord and dragged him into a storage room. She told the rest of the stunned employees that the police were on the…

The Code of Conduct Bureau has invited the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, over the involvement of his company in an alleged N438m contract scam uncovered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The CCB has commenced an investigation into the alleged breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers by the Minister. A company, New Planet Projects, allegedly belonging to the Minister, benefitted from an alleged contract scam from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. A document exclusively obtained by our correspondent on Monday revealed that the CCB invited the embattled minister to appear before it…

Seven Major Marketers Get Approval To Sell Dangote Fuel The seven major oil marketers in Nigeria have registered with the Dangote Petroleum Refinery for the lifting and distribution of refined petroleum products produced by the $20bn plant. Dealers under the aegis of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria confirmed on Sunday that with the registration, they would commence the distribution of fuel produced from the facility once the commercial terms are sorted. This came as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria also revealed that they would meet with the management of the Dangote refinery this week to discuss…

Daniel Bwala, former spokesman for Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 2023 presidential election, has said he will accept any position that will enable him to support President Bola Tinubu’s agenda for Nigeria. He made this known in an interview on Channels Television on Sunday. Bwala, who recently met with President Tinubu and declared his support to work with the All Progressives Congress, APC, government, said he will accept any offer by the President because he promised to support his agenda. “If the president makes an offer of a position that I…

• Utomi: Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso have agreed to work in alliance • Don’t contest 2027 presidential poll – PDP group advises Atiku • Your planned coalition dead on arrival, APC group tells Atiku • Akande: Returning PDP to power will cause more suffering With post-election issues being addressed at the Supreme Court and politicians accepting their fate, calculations are already ongoing ahead of the 2027 general elections three years away. The Guardian gathered at the weekend that gladiators, most especially the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)…

Allegations of massive fraud in the operations of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA, as well as the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, have sparked calls for President Bola Tinubu to probe the administration of his predecessor, former President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari set up NSIPA in 2016, a year after he assumed office as Nigeria’s President, to drive his administration’s National Social Investments Programmes, NSIP. The Social Investment Programmes were conceived to tackle poverty and hunger across the country. NSIPA is currently an agency under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The Ministry of…

A political economist, Professor Pat Utomi said the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP), the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have agreed to form a mega party that will wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027. Utomi made this revelation in an interview on Channels Television on Sunday. He said, “It’s a really clean start. You have to start from the premise that Nigeria has not had a political party since 1999. And let’s be very honest with ourselves. What we have managed is to create platforms that enable…

The Concerned PDP League, CPDPL, a pressure group within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, not to contest again in 2027. The group’s advice was contained in a communiqué signed on Sunday and released in Abuja by its National Secretary, Alhaji Tasiu Muhammed and acting National Director of Publicity and Strategic Communication, Gbenga Adedamola. CPDPL also asked the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, not to nurse any ambition for the presidential office until 2031, to avoid a repeat…