China’s warship, MSL Destroyer NANNING, has docked at the Lagos port in an official visit to Nigeria. The warship named Nanning is Nigeria on diplomatic arrangement. Meridian Spy reports that the arrival of the Chinese vessel was met with a warm reception by officials from the Western Naval Command, with Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Rear Admiral Joseph Akpan leading the delegation. More coming…
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Mr Benjamin Kalu, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, has pledged that the 10th National Assembly will work to solve climate change issues positively. This is contained in a statement signed by the deputy speaker and made accessible to journalists in Abuja on Saturday. The declaration is in honor of the 2023 International Day of the Parliament. Kalu said that the event was a global issue introduced in 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly resolution. According to him, the Day affords the parliaments across the globe to review the progress they have made in achieving their outlined goals…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to use his good offices and leadership position to “urgently publish details of spending of about N400bn so far saved as a result of the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol.” SERAP urged him to “provide details of the plans on how subsequent savings from the removal of subsidy on petrol, including specific projects on which the funds would be spent, and the mechanisms that have been put in place to ensure that any such savings are not embezzled, misappropriated or diverted into…
Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, has set temporary limits on the social media platform to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation. Musk who made the announcement on his Twitter page on Saturday said Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, adding that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day, respectively. He said, “To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified…
Kano State Government said it had not sacked the 10,800 workers whose June salaries were stopped. Meridian Spy gathered that the 10,800 workers were employed by the administration of former governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. The clarification was made on Friday in Kano in a joint news conference by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Baba Dantiye; Accountant General, Abdukadir Abdulsalam, and Head of Service (HOS), Usman Bala-Muhammad. The HOS explained that the 10,800 workers were not sacked, but only had their salaries stopped pending verification of their status. “Let me make it categorically clear that no staff was retrenched. Their salaries…
The Force headquarters has clarified that the viral video showing several armed mobile police personnel escorting a mallam to slaughter a cow during Eld Kabir celebrations is an old video It said no police personnel is presently attached to the said Mallam. Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi made this known in a statement titled, “Re: Video of Mallam Escorted by Armed Policeme to Slaughter Cow; Video Very Old, No Policemen Attached to him presently”. He said, “We wish to state categorically that the viral video of a mallam who was seen escorted by some armed Mobile Policemen to…
The government of India has invited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the G20 summit for this year. The G20 summit comes up in India between September 9 and 10, 2023. The G20 brings together the world’s major and systemically important economies. Its members represent 85% of global GDP, 75% of international trade and two-thirds of the world’s population. The forum meets every year since its inception in 1999 after the Global Financial Crisis of 1997-98, with leaders meeting for an annual G20 Leaders’ Summit since 2008. In addition to the summit, there are ministerial meetings, Sherpa meetings, working groups…
IPMAN denies Petrol Hike to N700 per Lite The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has refuted the association’s purported proposal to raise the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, to N700 per litre across the country. Alhaji Dele Tajudeen, Chairman of IPMAN Southwest Zone, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Friday. The chairman, therefore, urged Nigerians to disregard the speculation and not engage in panic buying. Tajudeen stressed that the price of the product would not be more than what is being sold…
The Federal Government spent $62.66m to service railway-related debts in the first quarter of 2023, according to Nigeria’s external debt service payments report by the Debt Management Office. Between January and March 2023, The Nigeria Railway Modernisation Project (Idu-Kaduna Section) took $23.1m The Nigeria Railway Modernisation Project (Lagos-Ibadan Section) gulped $15.49m. The PUNCH also learnt that the Nigeria Abuja Light Rail Project gulping $24.07m. The total amount spent in Q1 2023 is a slight increase from the $61.73m spent in Q1 2022. The rising railway debt servicing costs occurred as the government struggled to generate revenue from the railway sector.…
Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the head of the Biafra Independence Movement and Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, disassociated himself from the conflict between the Indigenous people of Biafra and Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, the former head of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, on Friday. According to a statement made on his behalf by Mazi Chris Mocha, his Director of Information and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Uwazuruike is only concerned with how IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, can be freed from the Department of State Services prison, not what Asari Dokubo said on social media.…
Troops of the 4 Special Forces, Doma, Nasarawa State, have arrested 12 suspected rail track vandals at Angwan Yara, Keana Local Government Area (LGA) of Nasarawa State. Maj. Joseph Afolasade, Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of the Command, made the disclosure at a press briefing on Friday in Doma. According to Maj. Afolasade “On June 15, 2023, troops of the Command, during a routine patrol, intercepted five suspected rail track vandals at an abandoned railway station between Angwan Yara and Agyaragu communities of Keana LGA. “The suspects were arrested with a large quantity of rail tracks loaded in two…
Port Decongestion: NPA auctions Overtime Cargoe The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it has begun the evacuation of overtime cargoes to help decongest the ports. A cargo is classified as overtime if the importer does not clear it after 90 days — all overtime cargo are subject to seizure by customs. The NPA said the activity is done to rid the ports of congestion and pave the way for efficient port operation. Josephine Moltok, general manager of corporate and strategic communications at the NPA, spoke on the need to evacuate overtime cargoes in a statement in Lagos. Advertisement “The Lagos…