Felix Duru Mbah

By our reporter On a day that Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) grumbled loudly over the deleterious effects of high petrol price on workers and the masses and issued an ultimatum to Federal Government (FG) on petrol, FG today pegged the amount payable on the vital product at N1,350 a litre across the country. Additionally, government announced a 30-day discount on petrol bought at all retail outlets run by its oil behemoth, Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPCL). The FG clarified that the discount was not a subsidy, but its way to assist public transportation bring down fares for the benefit of…

By Felix Durumbah, Abuja Nigeria may witness a nationwide industrial convulsion as, embittered by seeming official indifference to the spiralling poverty in the land arising from dire socioeconomic difficulties, Labour has handed the Federal Government (FG) two weeks, beginning tomorrow (Friday) to reverse petrol price to the January 2024 rate, or face consequences. People&Politics notes that a litre of petrol at pump heads of retail outlets in January 2024 sold for about ₦668.30 whereas presently it goes for about N1,500 in different parts of the country - a jump of over 100 per cent. NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, who…

*Soyinka Won It In 1986 Canadian poet, classicist and translator, Anne Carson, has, today, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 76-year-old is best known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of Red, a queer coming-of-age story which reimagines a poem by the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus. Born in 1950 in Toronto, Carson earned a PhD in Classics and has taught at a number of universities throughout her decades-long career. Her works include Plainwater, Wrong Norma and The Beauty of the Husband. She became the first woman to ever win the TS Eliot prize with the latter in 2001.…

*Governorship Candidate, Human Rights Body Blast Govt, Pastors, Imams Over Silence *'They Sleep With One Eye Open; They Cannot Go To Farms, They Cannot Travel Freely, They Cannot Even Sleep In Peace In Their Homes' *'Kaduna Cannot Be Secured By Press Statements; It'll Be Secured By Deliberate, Inclusive, Sustained Action' *'Where Are The Pastors, Imams Who Pray At Every Government House Event? Silent; Where Are All The Government Appointees Enjoying Security Votes And Convoys? Silent' By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna It appears insecurity is creeping back into Kaduna State, the northern political capital, with rising incidents of kidnapping, killings and fresh…

'There is no part of the world where you start a reform like that, there will not be discomfort, right? More people went down to poverty; acknowledged. I’m not doubting' This was the admission of presidential spokesman, Daniel Bwala, on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. Bwala acknowledged that more Nigerians slipped into poverty as a result of the economic reforms introduced by the President Bola Tinubu administration. But Bwala, who is Special Adviser on Media and Policy Communications to the President, justified the reforms in a matter-of-fact manner, saying they were necessary to move the country…

*'I'll Not Deviate From Set Objective, If Voted In' By Emmanuel Ogoigbe, Warri Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for Warri Federal Constituency in the 2027 general elections, Chief Sheriff Mulade, yesterday visited His Royal Majesty, Pere Ama-Okosu of Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom, King Couple Mackson Oromoni, Monbene III, for royal blessings as campaigns hot up for the polls. Accompanied by a mammoth crowd of supporters drawn from various communities in the constituency, Mulade practically felt the love of his constituents. At the palace, the candidate officially informed the monarch and chiefs of the kingdom of his desire to represent the constituency in…