President Bola Tinubu’s administration has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to withdraw licenses of non-performing electricity distribution companies (DISCOs).This is as power generation dropped year-on-year (YoY) by 21 percent to 3,475 MW in March 2024, from 4,404 MW in the corresponding period of 2023, due to many problems,
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Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has rubbished reports claiming he is set to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2027 elections.UNITY TIMES earlier reported that Atiku and some other politicians were planning to form a new party to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Zamfara State governor, Abdullaziz Yari, and Senator Abdul Ningi have initiated the move to form a mega party ahead of the 2027 general election.Recall that Atiku, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, lost to President Bola
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Nigerian Army troops say they have uncovered and neutralized a major firearms and drone manufacturing factory allegedly operated by the Eastern Security Network (ESN).According to Army spokesman, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, the factory was located at Onicha Ulona in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State.He said the troops
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Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Monday inaugurated an ad hoc committee to investigate the N30 trillion Ways and Means Advances released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to fund projects under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.The fund, which passed through the National Assembly, was without details, despite the commitment
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The Rotary International president, Gordon McLnally, will be on a three-day working visit to Nigeria starting Friday with a fresh donation of $7 million for the eradication and prevention of diseases.The latest grant is in addition to the $14 million given by Rotary about two months ago, through the World
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to drag the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to court if it fails to reverse the directive to network providers to bar the phone lines of Nigerians who have not linked their SIM cards to their National Identification Numbers (NINs).SERAP, which made
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A five-storey building under construction has collapsed in Onitsha, an Anambra State commercial hub.The building located at Basden Street, Fegge, Onitsha-South local government, according to sources, caved in from the fifth floor in the morning of Sunday.Some workers were said to be on the fifth floor working when the building
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The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have declared a 7-day warning strike over the federal government’s delay in paying their salaries.The decision to embark on a warning strike was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two grandfathers over drug trafficking.The suspects, Mallam Mai Gemu Adam and Yamama Musa, were arrested in Borno State on Saturday, March 9.Confirming this in a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said 32,000 ampoules of tramadol injection were
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