More than 20 persons have been trapped underground by collapsed hotel building in Abuja, according to eyewitnesses at the site.Director General of FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Dr Abass Idris has said nine persons have so far been rescued as at 7:44 pm, while rescue operation continues following a 4-storey
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) will begin the installation of electric vehicles charging ports in its filling stations nationwide to boost Nigeria’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions.Managing Director, NNPC New Energy Limited, Mr. Kanayochukwu Odoe, who disclosed this in the company’s quarterly publication released yesterday, explained that the
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Nigeria earned about $11 billion from crude oil exports in the first half of the year.The latest revenues fact sheet of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which revealed the figure, also projected that the country’s earnings would increase to about $29 billion in the same period 2024.According to
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Nigerians have been asked to brace up for increase in the prices of bread, a major food item on the table of almost all Nigerians.The producers said their cost of production has risen following the withdrawal of fuel subsidy and the liberalization of the foreign exchange (forex) market by the
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The special assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency, Ibrahim Giwa, has confirmed the deaths of two more pilgrims from the state.He said the two pilgrims died while performing their hajj rites in Saudi Arabia.According to him, the pilgrims were identified as Bashir Umar Sambo
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The World Bank has projected that inflation may hit 25 per cent in 2023 as a result of petrol subsidy removal, adding that the policy will create additional fiscal space and reduces reliance on financing from the CBN, curbing growth of the money supply.This projection according to the report, as
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the expulsion of Senator Chimaroke Nnamani from the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) and described the action of the party as null and void.Justice J. K . Omotosho in his ruling following a suit filed by Senator Nnamani after the
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Mmesoma Ejikeme has finally spoken out after facing allegations of forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.In a video circulating online, Mmesoma can be seen holding a printout of her UTME result, claiming, “I don’t understand them saying I forged the result.”She asserted that there may have been discrepancies
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Faced with criticism, Saudi Arabian authority has blamed the invasion of illegal pilgrims at the religious site of Mina for the painful experience of shortage of tents and bed space suffered by the Nigerian pilgrims during the rigorous spiritual pilgrimage of the just concluded 2023 Hajj exercise.The vice president of
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Kebbi State government through the Ministry of Animals, Husbandry and Fisheries in collaboration with the Federal Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services (FDVPCS) has concluded arrangement to vaccinate nine million animals and 10 million local chickens against diseases across the 20 local government areas of the state.The exercise was
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