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Breaking: Tinubu in first security meeting with CDS, service chiefs, IGP

Per Second News reports that President Bola Tinubu is currently holding his first meeting with the service chiefs lead by the Chief of...

NLC, TUC engage FG over subsidy removal, astronomical raise in petrol pump price

Following the scrapping of petrol subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu administration with the attendant rise of pump price to N500 and above,...

Between the dialectics and the benefits of petroleum subsidy removal

By Paul Njowusi For many years, successive administrations in Nigeria had embraced the scam that the fuel subsidy regime exemplified in the mismanagement...

Breaking: Subsidy gone: NNPC announces new pump price, now sells at N488, N555 per litre

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) has released new price regime for the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol for...

Tinubu intervenes in DSS-EFCC standoff, orders DSS to vacate EFCC office

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the Department of State Service (DSS) to vacate the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...

Tinubu’s scrapping of petrol subsidy will empower us to function as commercial entity, says NNPCL

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) backed President Bola Tinubu’s scrapping of petrol subsidy with immediate effect. Persecondnews reports that as a...

U.S. Pres. Biden pledges support for Tinubu’s fight against insecurity

United States President Joe Biden has congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his inauguration as the president of Africa’s largest democracy. His message was...

Breaking: Chief Raymond Dokpesi, AIT/RayPower FM founder, exits

Chief Raymond Anthony Aleogho Dokpesi, founder of DAAR Communications Plc, owners of AIT/RayPower FM, has died. The chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party...

Nigerians’ commonwealth is safe under Tinubu as President as we are blessed already, Oluremi Tinubu assures

A firm commitment and promise has been made on behalf of President-elect Bola Tinubu that the commonwealth of Nigeria and Nigerians is safe...

My apologies for excruciating hardships, pains I have caused you, outgoing Pres. Buhari tells Nigerians

On the eve of his departure from office and for the umpteenth time, President Muhammadu Buhari has apologized profusely to Nigerians for inflicting...

Just in: Police Inspector-General, Usman Baba Alkali, sacked

With less than 38 hours to the presidential and governorship inaugurations, Nigeria’s Police Inspector-General, Mr Usman Baba Alkali, has been relieved of his...

Just in: National carrier– Nigeria Air– lands in Abuja

At last, the national carrier, “Nigeria Air”, promised by the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari administration about two years ago, has finally arrived in...

Another court gives judgment in favour of Tinubu, dismisses suit challenging his age, citizenship

Another suit filed by three people seeking to stop the inauguration of President-elect, Bola Tinubu and the Vice-President-elect, Kashim Shettima, over age falsification...

Breaking: Supreme Court throws out PDP’s suit against VP-elect, Shettima over double nomination

The Supreme Court on Friday morning dismissed the suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the alleged double nomination of Vice-President-elect,...

Appeal Court slams N40m fine on ex-presidential candidate over suit to stop Tinubu’s inauguration

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday imposed N40 million fine on a Presidential Candidate, Ambrose Albert Owuru in the 2019...

Former UK Envoy To Nigeria Appointed UN Special Representative for Somalia

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Catriona Laing as his new Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations...