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INEC’s manual collation of 2023 polls results: TMG kicks, says it smacks of planned poll rigging

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been stridently criticized over alleged plans to collate 2023 election results manually against its earlier avowed...

Great Britain launches new skilled worker visa for foreigners

Britain has launched a new work visa for fast-growing businesses to hire skilled workers from abroad, Persecondnews.com gathered Monday. The Scale-up visa is...

Breaking: 188-day-old strike: SSANU, NASU suspend strike, ASUU still adamant

With the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) still undecided and adamant, the two other unions in the nation’s tertiary institutions —...

Lewandowski’s stolen €70,000 Patek Phillippe watch recovered

A watch stolen from the wrist of Barcelona star Robert Lewandowski has been recovered by police. The incident happened on Thursday when the...

Update: N2.6bn indebtedness: NBC releases names of 52 TV, radio stations it ordered shut

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has given 52 television and radio stations including state-owned media across the country 24 hours to shut down...

Breaking: NBC wields the big stick, revokes licences of AIT, Silverbird TV,  Raypower, Rhythm FM, others

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has applied sanctions against two privately-owned television and radio stations, ordering their immediate shutdown. NBC announced the revocation...

National Economic Council approves NSIA’s 2021 financial performance report

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority’s (NSIA) 2021 financial performance report has been approved by the National Economic Council (NEC). The NEC also lauded...

NPA generates N172.28bn revenue in first half of 2022, remits N78.49bn into nations’ Consolidated Revenue Fund

As one of the prime revenue earners for the nation, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it has generated N172,285,626,312.00 (One hundred and seventy-two...

Breaking: Electricity workers agree to suspend strike for 14 days

Following the intervention of some senior government officials, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) says it has suspended the less than 12...

India has ‘moral duty’ to buy cheaper oil from Russia – Foreign affairs minister

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday said it is the government’s moral duty to provide cheaper oil to its citizens as pressure...

Oil prices swing amid recession fears

Oil prices swung on Wednesday, losing earlier gains, and slumped to six-month lows as investors weighed fall in US inventories against recession fears...

Breaking: William Ruto wins Kenya’s Presidential poll

Kenya’s Vice President, William Ruto, has won the country’s presidential election, the Head of Kenya’s Electoral Commission announced on Monday. But the validity...

Help, Help!!! Terrorists taking over Kaduna State, Gov. el-Rufai urges Pres. Buhari’s intervention

Apparently beleaguered by rampaging terrorists, Kaduna State Government has cried out for help from the federal authorities to free the state from the...

Salman Rushdie will likely lose one eye, nerves in his arm severed and his liver damaged

US prosecutors have charged a man, 24, with the assault and attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Rushdie...

Seplat’s Non-Executive Director, Raimi, quits, sells off 16.139m ordinary shares

…. volume of Seplat’s traded shares declined to 3,193 units at the same price of N1,430.50 per share as of Friday, August 12,...

Murder by lethal injection: Guilt-racked 82-year-old monarch with 12 wives, 60 children keeps a date with hangman

The aphorism that “the law is no respecter of persons and will bring good or evil to any, according to his use or...