IOCs commend NNPC over $5.1b debt payment
International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria have commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for paying all the...
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Oshiomhole receives reports on 24 petitions treated by APC appeal panel
An appeal panel set up to resolve complaints and petitions arising from the recent National Convention of the All...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Air Peace to operate first all-female flights on July 5
Nigerian carrier, Air Peace says it will commence four-sector flights on the Lagos-Abuja, Abuja-Owerri, Owerri-Abuja and Abuja-Lagos routes with...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Youth Group to hold Mega Rally For Buhari
The National Convention of Buhari Youth Organization will hold July 10th in the capital city, Abuja. Thousands of Nigeria...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Leaked whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu has vindicated our position, says IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says recent intelligence report on the whereabouts of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Court dismisses firms’ application to change plea in Patience Jonathan’s case
A federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday dismissed an application by four companies to change their plea on alleged laundering...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Navy Navy destroys 1500 illegal refineries in Delta
Delta has destroyed about 1500 illegal refineries with swamp buggy in the Delta creeks in the last two months....
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Volkswagen mulls 2m car production yearly
Volkswagen, car manufacturing company, says it is ready to produce two million made-in-Nigeria cars yearly as soon as the...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
1500 illegal refineries in Delta destroyed by Nigerian Navy
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) DELTA has destroyed about 1500 illegal refineries with swamp buggy in the Delta creeks...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Buhari solicits on support of Igbos for re-election.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said he believed that the Igbo had the right to the Presidency and promised...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
10 to 6: Army revises death toll of Niger Boko Haram attack
Six soldiers were killed over the weekend in an attack blamed on the jihadist group Boko Haram on a...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Group protest at National Assembly, demand end to constituency projects
Scores of protesters early yesterday stormed the National Assembly, demanding the scrapping of constituency projects by the lawmakers.The protesters,...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
11-year-old Nigerian boy draws President Macron on the spot
Kareem Olamilekan, 11, artistically drew a portrait of president Emmanuel Macron of France during his visit to the New...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Plateau Kilings: Reps want masterminds punished
The House of Representatives yesterday reconvened from its month-long Sallah recess, condemning the recent massacre in Plateau State. It...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
Chinese firms moves to save Nigeria’s power challenge
A China-based firm, Shenzhen Kang Ming Sheng Technology Industry Incorporation, has disclosed plans to deepen renewable energy penetration in...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018
45 year old man arrested for defiling 14 year old daughter
The Lagos State police command is investigating circumstances surrounding the alleged defilement of a 14-year-old girl by her 45-year-old...
- By OtownGist
- July 4, 2018