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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, says the major cause of the fuel scarcity currently being witnessed across the country is shortfall in supply of petroleum products. Kachikwu, who stated this in a news briefing on Thursday in Abuja, however, said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

The Rochas Okorocha administration has blamed the printer’s devil, for the wrong christening of the Ministry of Happiness. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo said a typographic error led to the naming of the Ministry as the Ministry of Happiness and Couples fulfilment.It is now called Ministry...

2019 Elections: The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ebonyi, Prof. Godswill Obioma has revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission has developed a technology with which to electronically transmit elections results from polling units to its states' headquarters. This disclosure was made during a meeting with faith-based organizations in Abakaliki...

Fuel Scarcity: The Managements of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its downstream and marketing subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC) have urged members of the public to discountenance the reports of imminent fuel scarcity in the South-West carried in a section of the media as there...

#ENDSARS: The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has bowed to the demands by Nigerians to have a rethinking on the operations of the SARS, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. In a rare campaign on Twitter on Sunday, Nigerians launched the hashtag #EndSARS, in which they asked that the police unit...

The new slave trade-human trafficking in Libya is being carried out by many nationalities, including Nigerians and Ghanaians, according to a Cameroonian returnee, who was abducted in the country. Foka Fotsi, who was trafficked twice, told Reuters that those in charge of one of the places where he was held...

Google on Thursday introduced its new Datally app, which lets you monitor and save mobile data. It's available in the Google Play store for any Android phones running Android 5.0 Lollipop or newer. You can see your usage on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis and get recommendations for...

Bitcoin, living up to fears as a bubble currency, slid to as low as $9,000 on Thursday, having lost more than a fifth of its value since hitting an all-time high of $11,395 on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency fell as much as 8 percent on Thursday on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange...