One Kennedy Iyere is vying to succeed Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
Recall that in 2018, Iyere was dragged before Magistrate Folashade Botoku of the Igbosere’s Magistrate Court in Lagos for presenting a dud cheque.
Iyere, who was widely known as a militant, reportedly presented...
COVID-19 vaccine when discovered and approved is likely to sell for $40 (N15,500) per dose. This is according to Vaccine Alliance, a global COVID-19 vaccine funding scheme.
Seth Berkley, the CEO of the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, made know that although the facility was yet to conclude on a specific target...
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...
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...