President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate deployment of about 100,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) conversion kits nationwide as part of measures to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices on Nigerians. This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Executive Chairman of the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG), Ismaeel Ahmed, after a meeting with the President at the Aso Rock Villa. Ahmed said the conversion kits will be deployed within the next two to three weeks to enable v...

The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that most opposition parties in Nigeria are feeder parties to the ruling or larger political parties. The news publisher added that most of the opposition parties in the country were created by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Special Purpose Vehicles. According to him, the Labour Party (LP) is the worst of all the opposition political parties in the country because most politicians who joined...

Igbo socio-cultural and political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has submitted that there is nothing wrong with the calls for President Bola Tinubu to release the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The Ohanaeze group maintained that if former President Muhammadu Buhari, could pardon thousands of Boko Haram fighters during his time in power through a government rehabilitation programme, then President Tinubu can also release Kanu. It submitted in a statement...

The government of President Bola Tinubu on Sunday, presented 64 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses each to Labour and student leaders at the State House in Abuja. The presentation of the buses is in fulfilment of the promises made by the government during negotiations on the new minimum wage and how to alleviate the suffering of the people. It would be recalled that President Tinubu in July, promised to give 36 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to the labour unions in the country. The Presiden...

Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Tuesday, 14th May 2024 1. President Tinubu Issues Fresh Directive To MDAs On CNG Vehicles President Bola Tinubu has issued a ban on the purchase of petrol-dependent vehicles by members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and instructed all government ministries, departments, and agencies to procure Compressed-Natural-Gas-powered (CNG) vehicles. This directive was confirmed in a statement...