Category Archives: METRO
BREAKING [MOHBAD]: Lagos State Police Command Declares Primeboy Wanted – PorscheClassy Media
Following his failure to honour police invitation successfully sent to him since the commencement of investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of Mr Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, the Lagos State Police Command hereby declares wanted Owodunni Ibrahim aka
Senate Panel asks Tinubu to Send Supplementary Budget for CNG Buses
The senate committee on gas has asked President Bola Tinubu to send a supplementary budget to facilitate the procurement of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses for mass transit across the country. The federal government agreed to earmark N100 billion for
NLC, TUC Suspends Strike for 30 Days
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to suspend the industrial action planned for Oct. 3 for 30 days. At the end of a five-hour closed door meeting, the Union leaders said that all
BREAKING: Former Pretroleum Minister Diezani Gets £70,000 Bail In Alleged £100,000 Bribery Trial
Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, appeared before the Westminster Magistrates Court in the United Kingdom on Monday, over an alleged £100,000 bribe. The district judge, Michael Snow, granted Alison-Madueke a £70,000 bail. Snow further imposed other terms
Scientists Behind mRNA COVID Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, the scientists who developed the technology for messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute made the announcement in a
Subsidy Removal: Tinubu Approves More Relief Packages For Workers, Others
A high-level meeting between government and Labour yesterday might have averted the planned workers strike over the removal of petrol subsidy and its attendant pains. Labour, which shunned an invitation by government on Friday, insisting on the strike call for tomorrow,
FG jacks up Provisional Wage Increment to N35,000 to Avert Strike
President Bola Tinubu has approved N35,000 as the provisional wage increment for all treasury-paid workers for the period of six months. “Going from the meeting with Labour today, President Bola Tinubu has agreed to increase the provisional wage award for
All Workers to benefit from Provisional Wage Increase – Gbajabiamila
The provisional wage increase President Bola Tinubu announced for all low-grade workers for six months will cut across all workers, the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, revealed to State House Correspondents Sunday evening.This followed a four-hour meeting between leaders
BUA Reduces Cement Price to ₦3,500 per Bag
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the company on the evening of Sunday, October 1, 2023. The development comes barely two weeks after the Chairman of BUA Cement Plc., Abdul Samad Rabiu, announced the company’s plan to crash cement
NDLEA Arrests Wanted Kingpin, Chadian, Others Over Tons of Drugs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a kingpin wanted for attempts to ship illicit drug consignments to the United Kingdom. This tops the list of arrests made by NDLEA Operatives through interdiction operations that led to the
