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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...
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has again announced a further reduction in the prices of both diesel and aviation fuel to N940, N980 per litre respectively. This is coming in the wake of its widely celebrated price reduction to N1,000 barely two weeks ago. The price change of N940 applies to customers buying...
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:...
No less than 4,000 unemployed youths in Lagos, will get N40,000 monthly stipends from Lagos state government, as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu approved an internship programme for them. Yetunde Arobieke, the Honourable Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, made this disclosure via a statement she shared on social media. In the statement,...
UK-based magazine, The Economist recently published a damning editorial that exposed President Muhammadu Buhari's ineptitude to govern, such that he tagged him incompetent. Amongst other things, the publication stated that the Nigerian President failed woefully in his promises, including tackling corruption, which was his campaign message in 2015. Below are the...
A case has been made for extractive industries to prioritize the protection of groundwater in a bid to preserve the environment for the benefit of all. To do this, businesses were urged to deliberately incorporate the protection of groundwater in their operational designs and sourcing of industrial production facilities. These...