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A 65 litres water capacity cylinder of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), which cost N3,500 to fill, will take a car from Abuja to Kaduna, a distance of about 191km, an expert has said. Mr Mas’ud Yau’, an Engineer and Manager of ABG Conversion Centre, Dawaki, one of the Federal Government’s accredited …

Top 100 Universities in Nigeria.Ranking Done by Ranking Web or Webometrics. The year 2024 edition of the top 100 universities in Nigeria has been published by the Ranking Web or Webometrics. This is the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions, and it uses a ranking system that is based …

A video of former militant leader, Asari Dokubo, and his boys has gotten social media users talking.   The trending video shows Asari seated on his balcony as his boys dressed in white shirts took turns kneeling before him. He then gave them cups of water from a basin filled with …

Dangote petrol at N766/litre Sunday PUNCH gathered that the Dangote refinery would sell its petrol at N766 to the NNPC. Multiple sources from the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, NNPC, and major energy marketers confirmed that the deal to supply crude to the Dangote refinery in naira was a key factor …

Nigerians’ quest to purchase cheaper Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) may be realised after all as facts emerged that Dangote petrol may sell for N857 to N865 per litre. Already, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) will start lifting the product from Dangote Refinery today barring any unforeseen circumstances after NNPCL agreed …

…. As traditional ruler, UNICEF, Task Journalists on the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. The Assistant Secretary-General, Muslim Council of Nigeria, Adamawa State, Imam Bashir Tahir, has urged fathers not to compete with their babies over the mother’s breast milk.Tahir made this known in Yola during a two- day Media Dialogue …

Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, has been released by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) after being detained at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Sowore’s detention was due to a watchlist issued by the Department of State Service (DSS), which ordered his arrest upon arrival in …

A Nigerian man, Adejare Ibrahim, has said that a relationship has a larger chance of survival when a woman likes a man more than he likes her.   “When a woman likes a man more, their relationship has a larger chance of survival. If the man likes the woman more than …

Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has condemned the recent increment in school fees by the federal and Lagos state governments, describing the development as illegal. Vanguard reports that the federal government had in July 2023 increased fees for Unity Schools from N45,000 to N100,000 per term, an increase by over 120%. …

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Omoyele Sowore, convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, upon his arrival at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Sowore, who had been in the United States with his family, was taken into custody immediately after his flight landed on Sunday.Prior to his arrest, …