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MARKETERS KICK AS PORT HARCOURT REFINERY FACES Shutdown For MAINTENANCE The Port Harcourt Refining Company will be shut down any time soon to undergo a maintenance exercise that could last for 30 days, Saturday PUNCH reports. Some retailers told our correspondent that the facility was shut down on Thursday night, but the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said the plant …

SOUTH-EAST SENATORS PROTEST REGION’S EXCLUSION FROM FG’S N3.2TRN IRRIGATION FUNDS Senators from the South-east geopolitical zone yesterday drew the attention of the Senate to successive strategic exclusion of the region from key development projects of the federal government. The latest according to them, was the N3.2 trillion Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Funded irrigation development projects under the 2025 Appropriation Act. …

BRING PETER OBI BACK INTO YOUR FOLD – PDP CHIEFTAIN A member of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Sowunmi, has advised the party to do everything and bring back the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, into its fold. Sowunmi gave the advice on Friday while playing host to Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’. Obi left …

2027: HURDLES BEFORE THE COALITION Andrew AgbeseSat, 24 May 2025 5:50:14 WATWith the weakening of major opposition political parties in Nigeria, pundits say only a few options are left for the opposition parties to make meaningful impact at the next general elections. With many concluding that each of the major opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Labour Party and …

WIKE ANNOUNCES TAKEOVER OF PDP HQ, ABUJA PROPERTIES FOR DEFAULTING ON GROUND RENT The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has announced that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) will begin the takeover of properties in Abuja over unpaid ground rent, starting Monday, May 26, 2025. The land housing the permanent headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), currently under …

CHRISTIAN YOUTH GROUP THREATENS SOWORE FOR DEFENDING CRITICS OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS James Adama Paul, convener of the Concerned Christian Youth Forum (CCYF), has issued a threat against human rights activist Omoyele Sowore, warning that the group may resort to taking the law into its own hands if Sowore continues to intervene in cases involving content creators arrested at the behest …

APC CREATED FROM ANGER, MALICE, BITTERNESS, WAS NEVER SERIOUS – FORMER GOV LAMIDO Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has claimed the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has never been a serious political party. Lamido noted that the party was a creation of anger, malice and bitterness. The former governor stated this in chapter 16, page 421 of his …

JAPA: NIGERIA RANKS SECOND AMONG FOREIGNERS WHO MIGRATED TO THE UK IN 2024 Nigeria has emerged as the second-highest source of long-term migrants to the United Kingdom, UK in 2024, according to the latest figures released by the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). The data shows that 120,000 Nigerians moved to the UK within the year ending June 2024, …

20 SUSPECTS ARRESTED OVER HACKING OF 2025 UTME RESULTS The Department of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Police Force, have arrested at least 20 suspects over hacking of the 2025 computer-based test, CBT, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The 2025 UTME was conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. AIT reports that the suspects are part of …

SUPREME COURT DISMISSES 36 STATES SUIT OVER RECOVERED LOOT FUNDS The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit filed by the 36 state governments and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) challenging the federal government’s use of recovered looted funds. In a judgment on Friday, a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court was unanimous in holding that the suit was wrongly instituted …