A fire on a pipeline owned by Nigeria’s state oil company in the commercial capital Lagos killed three people on Sunday, a Reuters witness said. The blaze broke out in the Abule-Egba district of the southwestern megacity. Residents said it started shortly before 8 p.m. (1900 GMT). A Reuters television camera operator counted three dead […]
UK-based Nigerian playwright Inua Ellams gives Anton Chekhov’s classic play ‘Three Sisters a radical new setting: 1960s Nigeria during the Biafran War. Ellams’s play explores the experiences, loves and losses of three sisters stranded in a small eastern town as war encroaches and throws their lives into disarray. The conflict was fought by the Nigerian […]
There are indications that those who ran the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) between 2017 and 2019, maybe called to explain the award of 1,921 emergency contracts valued at N1.3 trillion within seven months in 2019. Mr Nsima Ekere served as NDDC managing director after taking over from the former acting managing […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has intercepted 42 bags of foreign rice at Kankara axis of Katsina State. The NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, who disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Saturday in Abuja, said that it was concealed in a vehicle. Mr James […]
University workers have begun mobilisation for a possible industrial action over the non-implementation of the new national minimum wage in the universities despite Presidential directive that it be implemented by December 31, 2019. A highly placed source close to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) told The Nation that the university workers are not […]
The Federal Government has failed to make any comment on the alleged $12m (N4.3bn) fraud case of newly inaugurated Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, as well as the travel ban imposed on the governor. When contacted for an update on the alleged fraud case of Uzodinma, the Spokesman for the Attorney-General of the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says border closure is not meant to punish neighbouring countries. The federal government had in August partially closed its land borders. At the time, Buhari had said the action was meant to check smuggling activities. The closure, John Mahama, a former Ghanaian president had said would have a significant toll on many […]
About 354 forex trade investors allegedly defrauded by an ex-banker, Seye Onigbinde, are currently embittered after their investments went down the drain. Some of them, who spoke with City Round on Friday, said they were convinced to put their money in the scheme, thinking it would bring fortunes. Onigbinde is being investigated by the police […]
The Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Customs, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has alleged that the recruitment exercise being carried out by the Department of Customs and Excise was mired in controversy and therefore dismissed it as a fraud. He also queried why despite having all the world-class training facilities, the Comptroller General of Customs, […]
The Enugu State High Court has struck out a suit seeking to grant members of the Rev. Chidi Okorafor-led faction of the Assemblies of God possession and management of a local church at No 27 Mount Street, Awkunanaw, Enugu. The court said it did not have the jurisdiction to entertain the matter. It also vacated […]