The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, PPMC, Wednesday, announced an increase in the pump price of petrol from N148.62 to N151.56 per litre. The ex-depot price is the cost at which the product is sold to marketers. This was disclosed in an internal memo from Ibadan depot to all stakeholders with reference number PPMC/IB/LS/020 dated September…
AIB Investigates Chopper Crash
The Accident Investigation Bureau, (AIB) the investigating body in charge of all aviation-related accidents and incidents in Nigeria says it has commenced investigation to unravel circumstances that led to a helicopter crash at salvation road, Opebi area, Lagos State. The accident occurred at 12:20 pilot was conveying two passengers to a destination in the state…
NUJ Asks Buhari for Urgent Bailout for Media
The Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ has made a passionate appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari for an urgent intervention on the crisis hitting the media industry. This appeal is contained in a letter to the president dated May 16,2020. In the letter titled “CONVULSIONS IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRY” and signed by the National President of…
Iwo Gets College of Education
Iwo town in Osun State now has an additional tertiary institution. A federal college of education is to be sited in the town. A message to this effect was contained in a letter to the state government. Federal Government on May 13, announced the siting of the recently approved Federal College of Education for the…
Respite for Potential Homeowners
A Lagos based real estate firm, Resau Citation Investment Limited has introduced an innovative way of lending money to Nigerians to build houses and become property owners as part of efforts to reduce the housing deficit in the country. Oluwatosin Sanusi, Managing Director of the company said that Resau Citation Investment Limited provides short and…
Family and Friends Celebrate Okoli At 60
Family, friends, colleagues, business associates, and other well-wishers gathered at the Lekki Event Centre in Lagos on Saturday, June 29, 2019, to celebrate the 60th birthday of Felicia Ngozi Okoli, a Catholic, an astute businesswoman, a marketing and management consultant, and administrator. She holds a Diploma in Data processing and in Business and Commercial Law all…
CcHUB Trains TELL Staff on Digital Security
A 4-day Digital Security Awareness training programme, organized by Co-Creation Hub, CcHUB, a Lagos-based private company, for the staff of TELL Communications Limited, publishers of TELL magazine has ended in Lagos. The programme, sponsored by Ford Foundation was tagged “Digital Security Assessment for Civil Societies and Media Organisations”. Habeeb Adebisi, Digital Security Analyst at CcHub,…
Gani Adams Buries Father
The setting at St. James Secondary School, Arigidi-Akoko, Ondo State on Saturday, March 30 was indicative of a big ceremony. People in their thousands from all walks of life graced the event where leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Ganiyu Adams, Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland gave a befitting burial to his father. Pa Lamidi Adams,…
Governorship Candidate Disrupts Declaration of Results
Governorship candidate of Labour Party, LP, in Lagos State, Fagbemi Awamoridi, a professor, on Sunday, disrupted the announcement of results at the INEC state secretariat in Lagos. Awomoridi argued that the electoral body wanted to declare results against the provisions of the Electoral Act. He claimed that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, did not…
Lawmaker Killed in Oyo
A lawmaker representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency of Oyo State, Temitope Olatoye has been shot dead.Sugar as he was popularly calls attacked by suspected political thugs on his way from his village where he had gone to cast his votes for the governorship and State Assembly elections. He was the Oyo Central senatorial district candidate of…