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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sealed off five petrol filling stations in the southern part of Adamawa State for under-dispensing of fuel. The state acting Controller of the DPR, Dr. Laminga Mohammed, who was furious with the management of the stations over what he called gross under-dispensing, threatened to withdraw their operational licenses…
The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kwara chapter, Mr Toyin Saliu, has called for improved welfare for teachers in the interest of the Nigeria education system. Saliu made this call in Ilorin on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), saying that teachers remained the drivers of education. According to…
Barcelona captain Lionel Messi would be “thrilled” if Neymar returned to the Catalan side but insisted they could still win trophies without the Brazilian. Neymar-Messi In an interview with the Catalan newspaper Sport this week, Messi said the return of Neymar, who was at Barca from 2013 and 2017 when he left for Paris Saint-Germain,…
INEC to publish names of candidates and their particulars for Bayelsa and Kogi governorship polls on Friday 13th September 2019. 52 parties submitted names of candidates for Bayelsa State while 49 parties submitted in Kogi. INEC monitored Sixty-four political party primaries in Bayelsa and 59 in Kogi . Details shortly…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied lying to Queen Elizabeth over the reasons for suspending parliament for five weeks after a court ruled his decision to do so was unlawful. Parliament was prorogued – suspended – on Monday until Oct. 14, a move opponents argued was designed to thwart their attempts to scrutinise his…
England manager Gareth Southgate is to meet with his squad ahead of their Euro 2020 match in Bulgaria next month and discuss what measures they might take if they are subjected to racist abuse. Three Lions One Bulgarian fan was arrested for “discriminatory abuse” directed at Raheem Sterling during the 4-0 win over Bulgaria last…
The President of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Youth Wing, Worldwide, Comrade Louis Anidi, has condemned the move by Ijaw youths to stop an Urhobo indigene from becoming the deputy governor in Bayelsa State. You will recall that Ijaw youths on Monday told the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that they would…
Having squashed and nullified the petitions brought to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, by Alhaji Atiku Abubaka, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 23, Presidential Election, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday advised the former to apologise to Nigerians for willfully distracting the administration of…
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday in Lagos while delivering a speech at the First Board Meeting/Fund Raising dinner for the creation of Nigerian University of Technology and Management, said that Nigeria needs an institution that addresses the most critical problems in Nigeria. Yemi Osinbajo The Vice-President noted that the country needs an institution that will…
An Austrian man who smuggled 88 living reptiles including 43 poisonous snakes from the Philippines was stopped by customs officers at Vienna airport, Austria’s Finance Ministry said Thursday. When the Austrian national arrived via Doha on Sunday, the officers screened his suitcase and saw that it was full of animals. After the man admitted that…