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The Federal Government has announced that one million vehicles would be converted to run on autogas by the end of 2021 in order to tackle the cost of transportation in the country. According to the Group General Manager/Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Garba...
The Federal Government (FG) would by next month (December 2021) increase electricity tariff. This development came as the price of cooking gas continues to soar. In a notice addressed to members of the public and power industry stakeholders, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) expressed its intention to commence two...
Despite opposition from the US government, most European Union member states have continued to express their support for Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation. The WTO’s effort to select a new leader by consensus hit a brick wall on Wednesday after...
Thousands of businessmen and travellers have on Thursday, October 21, 2021, been stranded and disappointed, as the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) suspended its Abuja-Kaduna operations. Disclosing this development, Paschal Nnorli, the Abuja/Kaduna Train Service Station Manager, said the services were suspended following an attack on the train track. Bandits bombed Abuja-Kaduna...
Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe, in his bid to secure re-election, is clamping down on his opponents. Amongst them is Muhammad Jibrin Barde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose campaign office at Liberty Hotel Junction, GRA area of the state, was demolished. In what appeared to be outright disobedience...
The Federal Government has blamed the increase in the pump price of petrol to the announcement of the breakthrough of COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer. It can be recalled that Pfizer and BioNTech announced that a vaccine they jointly developed was 90 percent effective in preventing COVID19 infections. Surprisingly, the message of...
N-power batch C beneficiaries across the country have started getting their stipends, as the federal government commenced the disbursement of their stipends on Monday, November 8, 2021. Unmask NG understands that the payment is for October 2021. In a statement titled ‘Payment of October stipend officially commences today 8th November, 2021’, the National...
The famous Nigeria-Ghana trade war has again begun, as Ghanaian government officials recently shut down shops belonging to Nigerians in their country. In a video which has since gone viral on social media, a Nigerian business merchant was seen standing against policemen, whom according to him, were not operating fairly...
The Nigerian government has resumed the importation of petrol from China. This, Unmask NG understands, is ongoing already as the moribund state of the national refineries lingers. For years now, despite billions of naira spent on maintenance and repair, the refineries have continued to perform below expectation which has resulted in...
Ayirimi Emami, popularly known as Ayiri, the deposed Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, who's a billionaire, has been dragged to court for his alleged involvement in the stealing of two royal crowns valued at N2 billion. The crowns, unmaskng, learnt belongs to the Warri Kingdom. According to the charge sheet with No:...