The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected the federal government’s introduction of N10/litre on all non-alcoholic, carbonated and sweetened beverages. Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, had announced the new tax on Wednesday. Ahmed said the new tax would raise revenue for health-related and other critical expenditures. …

• Accuse him of plotting to stop reappointment of DG for second term • Dauda: Allegations against me spurious, baseless Security agencies are probing a former Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Mohammed Dauda, for allegedly leaking secret files of the agency to the media and groups. The …

A police officer from Jigawa State, Nasiru Ya’u Abba Kazaure has died in a motor accident a day to his wedding. It was gathered that the officer was killed in the auto crash while coming back from his pre-wedding ceremony in the early hours of Friday, January 7. The late …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Imo State chapter has urged Senator Rochas Okorocha, a former governor of Imo State to consider the option of resigning as a Senator representing Imo West having shown unpardonable incompetence. The party hinged its call for Okorocha’s resignation on what it described as poor and …

A woman was left horrified after learning she’s actually related to her husband. The woman has been married to her husband for about a year and the couple share a child together. So when she discovered her partner was part Native American, she thought she’d do some digging. She did …

Two suspected phone thieves have been beaten to pulp by an angry mob in Jos, Plateau state. The suspects were caught around Ring Road area of Jos on Friday morning, January 7, after they snatched a phone from a woman who boarded their Keke. It was gathered that they were …

The Unfinished Obelisk Aswan in Egypt is known for its granite. The pyramids and numerous temples in Aswan (like Abu Simbel Temple, Kom Ombo Temple) and other parts of the country were built by the granite supplied from Aswan. The Unfinished Obelisk lying in the rock mountain of red granite …

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has asked Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC). Sowunmi, a spokesman for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in 2019, made the remark during an interview on Friday’s episode of Politics Today on Channels …

Media personality Osasu Igbinedion, who is the daughter of former Edo State governor Lucky Igbinedion, is engaged, Newsextra24 reports. The 29-year-old got engaged to longtime lover Nathaniel Ogwuche, said to be a top wedding and event cinematographer from Benue. Igbinedion shared a video on Instagram on Wednesday from the marriage …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APPOINTMENT OF NIA DG, EXCLUSIVE PREROGATIVE OF THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ABUJA , FCT, 7 JANUARY, 2022- The attention of the Office of the National Security Adviser has been drawn to recent reports in the social media credited to some unnamed former directors of the National Intelligence …