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Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, has been honoured with the Global Sustainable Leadership Award at the Global Sustainable Education and Leadership (G-SEL) Conference 2025, held at the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster, United Kingdom. The two-day event, which drew senior policymakers, business leaders, and diplomats from…

…Warn Agency-Creation Mongers to Allow Crystallisation of Reforms in Oil Sector Hundreds of placard-carrying activists stormed the streets of Abuja this morning as the Energy Reforms Advocates of Nigeria (ERAN) declared total war on the National Commission for the Decommissioning of Oil and Gas Installations (NC-DOGI) Bill, 2024. At a press conference, ERAN Executive Director,…

***Says FG’s Decision Will End Dumping of Fake Products, Scarcity in Nigeria A broad coalition of civil-society organisations under the umbrella of the Coalition of Civil Rights Activists has showered unreserved praise on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for approving a 15% import duty on refined petroleum products, describing the policy as “a watershed decision in…

A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has sentenced a 19-year-old teacher, Abdullahi Abbass, to life imprisonment for raping his nine-year-old pupil. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) hailed the conviction as a major win in its fight against sexual violence. According to NAPTIP, Abbass, who worked in a…

President Bola Tinubu Photo: State House President Bola Tinubu has made changes in the hierarchy of the Service Chiefs. This is “in furtherance of the efforts of the Federal Government of Nigeria to strengthen the national security architecture,” a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, read…

File photo: Masked gunmen There was pandemonium on Saturday after some yet-to-be-identified gunmen stormed the military barracks in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State and shot dead a butcher identified simply as Ridwan. Gathered that the attack occurred around 8 am in the Mammy Market section of the barracks. The assailants, numbering about…

•Oba Ewuare II reaffirms: only market women, not politicians, choose Iyeki By Ozioruva Aliu FOR the past weeks, the media have been inundated with the inauguration of an Iyaloja of Edo Market and the subsequent visit to the palace of the Oba of Benin where His Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolopkolo, Ewuare II told…

Dr. Samson Haruna, a medical doctor turned army officer, was brutally killed by his wife, a nurse, in a fit of rage over suspicions of infidelity. The incident occurred on September 22, 2025, at Wellington Bassey Barracks in Akwa Ibom State, barely five months into their marriage. Dr. Samson Haruna, a lieutenant in the Nigerian…

In a shocking turn of events, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Uche Nnaji, has resigned from his position amid allegations of certificate forgery. The scandal erupted after the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) disowned the certificates he presented for his ministerial appointment. The controversy began when the…