Author: straightnewsng.com

On this auspicious moment of the Christmas celebrations, StraightNews felicitate our numerous friends, loyal readers, subscribers and well-wishers all over the world. May the freedom, peace and prosperity brought by Jesus Christ years ago to mankind flourish in your life, families and home. Have amazing celebrations and may all your noble endeavours result in success even as you continue to support us and collaborate with us in this business. God bless you all for your sincere goodwill, unalloyed support, cooperation and for your loyal readership and patronage. We would appreciate your sparing the time to leave your kind good-wishes in…

A major dealer of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital sealed up and fined by Petroleum Products Monitoring Committee (PPMC) for selling the product above N145 government-approved price tricked the committee into collecting the fine on Saturday to resume normal sales, StraightNews has learnt. Rain Oil along Abubakar Atiku Street in Uyo caught by PPMC for selling PMS at N180 a litre to customers was closed on Saturday, but its management readily raised N100,000 fine and paid to the committee only to resume sales after few minutes. The PPMC led by Essien Esema, its Chairman, who…

This is to inform our numerous friends, readers and subscribers of StraightNews – the emerging online newspaper, that we have resumed publications on Sunday, December 24. We stopped publication since Friday, December 22 due to a three-day migration process embarked upon by our Web Hosting Company to avoid loss of our data and to ensure a safe and uncompromised data migration process. We thank you all for keeping faith with us during the brief ‘dark period’ and promise to serve you better. Please, continue to visit our site, make comments and read our materials to enable us to feel your pulse so we…

The United States may cut aids to Nigeria for voting against Donald Trump’s official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Prior to the emergency convergence of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Trump had threatened that the U.S will cut aid to countries that vote against America’s stance. “All of these nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the Security Council or they vote against us, potentially, at the Assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us,” Trump had said. “Well, we’re watching those…

A Ghanaian king has temporarily abdicated his throne by becoming a gardener in Canada to raise more money to provide health-care services for his 6,000 subjects at home. Eric Manu, a king of Akan in Adansi Aboabo village, Ghana, was crowned when his 67-year-old uncle, Dat, passed away in 2016. After living in Canada for three years with his wife and son, Manu returned to his town in the southern Ghana to reclaim his birthright. But now, Manu has gone back to British Columbia area of Canada and taken his old job – landscaping and gardening. He told CTV News,…

US President, Donald Trump has repudiated his purported disparaging outbursts reviling Nigerian immigrants for residing in huts back home. The New York Times reports that during a meeting held in the Oval Office in June, Trump said immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS”, Afghanistan was described as ”a haven of terrorists” and Nigerians living in the US were mocked for residing in huts back home. “Forty thousand (migrants) had come from Nigeria. Once they had seen the United States, they would never ‘go back to their huts’ in Africa,” the New York Times (NYT) quoted Trump to have stated this…

2017 is grinding to an end. Before a flamethrower is put to the year, there is need to look at the best movies across the globe. From the titanic Dunkirk to the iconic Logan Lucky feature greatest living actors- Daniel Day-Lewis, the movies appear on both the studio and big screens to make people forget their daily troubles and escape stories that have stayed with us long after the closing credits. Here are 11 best movies from this year: Logan Lucky This is the best movie you didn’t see this year. Sadly, Steven Soderbergh’s southern-fried version of “Ocean’s 11” didn’t…

Bitcoin prices climbed back above the $15,000 mark Saturday following a steep decline Friday when the cryptocurrency shed about a third of its value. Bitcoin, which is known to be extremely volatile, sank below $11,000 at one point Friday, according to data from CoinDesk.com. Prices had approached $20,000 as recently as a week ago. Amid the turbulence Friday, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, said buys and sells might be “temporarily offline” due to high traffic. The price dip came on the back of a few days of bad news for bitcoin, which has still soared by more than 1,000% since the start of the year.…

More Nigerians lost their jobs in 2017, thus populating the huge unemployment market, according to National Bureau of Statistics. The Bureau reports that the unemployment rate has increased to 18.8 per cent. About 51.1 million Nigerians are currently employed, NBS reported. The rate of unemployed Nigerians increased from 16.2 percent in the second quarter of 2017 to 18.8 percent in the third quarter. This is contained in the third quarter unemployment report which the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released Friday. The unemployment report reads “The number of unemployed people within the labour force who are unemployed or underemployed increased from…

Senate Plenary adjourned sitting to resume on January 19, 2018. Committees of Senate are, however, expected to resume on January 9, 2018 to continue with defence of 2018 budget by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government. Senators had taken turns to express their criticisms on the 2018 budget which they said the Executive put together in an unserious manner.