The current fuel scarcity across Nigeria is due largely to the entrenched corruption at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, reliable sources familiar with the operations of the state-owned oil company have told PREMIUM TIMES. The NNPC had said the resurgent queues in filling stations were due to panic buying and claimed it had 1.4 billion…
It was a Friday evening at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) and 20 lucky customers of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc were eagerly waiting for their flight. These were the people who received their Western Union and MoneyGram transfer at UBA during the UBA Remittance Awoof Promo. Their destination…
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the move by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to replace its candidate for the inconclusive Kogi State gubernatorial election even before the process starts. The opposition party also accused the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission…
A 28-year-old burglary suspect, Olamilekan Olaoluwa, has been arrested by policemen from the Iponri division after breaking into a house in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State. The Kwara State indigene was said to have broken into a two-bedroomed flat on Brickfield Road on Sunday around 2pm, while the occupant was away. Olaoluwa, a secondary…
Popular socialite,Lekan Olofinjana popularly known as Lekan Lokoso is out of prison.He was jailed in United States of America twenty years ago for drugs related offenses. According to a reliable source,who disclosed that Lekan who was jailed in 2003 regained his freedom on the 30th of October and he is currently with the American immigration…
LAWYERS across the country, yesterday, continued to proffer suggestions on how the country could wriggle out of the constitutional logjam occasioned by the death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Kogi State. Audu before his death was leading in the governorship election held on Saturday with over 40,000 votes…
Leader of the dreaded gang of bank robbers which had been terrorising commercial banks in Lagos and Ogun states in military uniforms has disclosed that his gang never intended to kill nine officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, who went missing last September. The suspect, identified as Kelly Fotor, an Ijaw native of…
Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the just concluded Kogi state election which was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, reportedly died, on Sunday, 22nd November, 2015. Here is a brief biography of the deceased foremost Kogi politician that you need to know. 1 Prince…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State inconclusive. The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, said the reason for the decision was because the number of votes cancelled was more than the number of votes with which the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Abubakar Audu, was…
Nemesis has finally caught up with five Fulani men suspected to be members of a notorious kidnapping and armed robbery gang who for years had terrorized OkeÂho and Iganna communities, in Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State and environs. The suspects were arrested following reÂports of armed robbery and kidnapping of notable figures by…
