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The Board of Trustees, SAIL Foundation, has officially launched the SAIL Innovation Lab facility in Ikorodu, Lagos State on Friday. The facility, which provides in-demand tech skills to motivated youths within the senatorial district, is an initiative by Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru and his wife, Mrs. Feyisola Abiru.  In attendance at the official commissioning of the facility were prominent personalities ... Read More »

A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, has said there is no constitutional process to delay the presidential inauguration on May 29. Requests to stop the swearing-in of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, became rife after he emerged as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. This is as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, ... Read More »

Operatives of the Lagos Police Command have arrested Afrobeats singer, Seun Kuti, over weekend’s alleged assault on an Inspector. Kuti drew the wrath of the police and majority of Nigerians following viral video footage him physically assaulting a policeman on Third Mainland Bridge, Saturday. The singer whose immediate arrest was ordered by the Inspector General of Police (IG) Alkali Usman, ... Read More »

Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have been barred by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission from billing already disconnected customers. The ban is contained in a March 2023 document by NERC Chairman, Sanusi Garba which our correspondence obtained yesterday. In the document titled “Customer Protection Regulation 2023,” the commission said that DisCos can only bill customers when they are reconnected. Newsthumb recalls ... Read More »

Barely 24 hours after the death of a popular Nollywood actor, Saint Obi, a Yoruba popular actor and producer, Murphy Afolabi, is reportedly dead. Although no details yet about the circumstances surrounding Afolabi’s death. Meanwhile, the death of the Yoruba actor was announced by a well-known director and producer of the industry, Ola Yusuff who took to his Facebook page ... Read More »

The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has fixed hearing for next Thursday in the application by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar for live telecast of the court’s proceedings. While ruling on Thursday, Justice Haruna Tsammani said the application will be heard along with other applications by the respondents including those seeking the dismissal of ... Read More »

Billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, has revealed that his offer to buy Nigerian conglomerate, Transcorp Corporation Plc, for N250bn was rejected. This came to light on Tuesday in a statement he issued to TheCable, weeks after the businessman acquired stakes in Transcorp and sold the shares. He revealed that he had bought the shares of the company because he believed in ... Read More »

….. As experts express optimism about meeting local demand THE Federal government, yesterday, confirmed the planned inauguration of the 650,000 barrels per day, bpd Dangote Refinery on May 2023. The company had indicated that the $19 billion plant will be inaugurated before President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office. However, in his tweet, Special Assistant to the President on Digital Communications, Bashir ... Read More »

Our correspondence reports buses arrived in Sudan to evacuate Nigerian students caught in the ongoing crisis. The buses were meant to take the students to the Egyptian border from where they were to be airlifted to Nigeria. However, on getting to the Aswan border in Egypt, they were refused entry. NIDCOM said the Egyptian authorities were insisting on visas, adding ... Read More »

The President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured workers of better deal under his administration. He said he will give them more than a minimum wage but a living wage that will guarantee a decent life and enable workers provide for their families. He also promised to be a dependable ally of the nation’s workforce as soon as his administration ... Read More »