Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has said that for Nigeria to avoid more wasteful years of non-performing public assets in the oil sector, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, must come up with creative ways for optimal performance. The Speaker stated this when he received the management of the NNPCL, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja, yesterday. Abbas, while commending the NNPCL for taking full advantage of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, to maximise its commercial potentials, decried the state of Nigeria’s refineries such as the one in Kaduna, which he…
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has condemned the obstruction of its officers from conducting regulatory spot checks on business premises.
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has urged Nigerians travelling abroad to have proper documentation to avoid irregularities and unpleasant consequences. Dabiri-Erewa stated this when she visited some Nigerians in one of the shelters in Brampton, Canada. Dabiri-Erewa warned Nigerians who have the intent to travel to Canada either without proper documentation or to seek asylum to desist as the “situation is getting tougher in many countries.” This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday via the commission’s handle on X, and signed by the Director, Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, NIDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun. The statement…
Fed Govt slashes Civil Servants wage by N100bn Labour unions, on Wednesday, lambasted the Federal Government for slashing the supplementary budgetary allocation for wage awards to federal civil servants by N100bn, warning that this was not the agreement they had with the government. Data obtained from the newly Revised 2023 Supplementary Budget, indicated that the government swapped the controversial N5bn presidential yacht votes for Navy barges, increased the budget for defence from N476.54bn to N546.21bn and earmarked N20bn as capital supplementation for the National Intelligence Agency. The PUNCH reports that the recently approved N2.1tn 2023 Supplementary Budget was…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area Command, said it collected N135bn worth of revenue in October, adding that the figure is currently the highest monthly collection in the history of the command.
The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has ordered a probe into allegations of connivance between custodial personnel and terror inmates to finance the operations of proscribed terrorist groups in some parts of the country. Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff CDS, General Christopher Musa had on Tuesday while appearing before members of the House of Representatives made the allegation. However, the minister in a statement issued Thursday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Babatunde Alao, condemned the unpatriotic act, directing the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa to investigate the disturbing allegation. Part…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has called on the Federal Government to take advantage of Nigeria’s diplomatic ties with Finland
NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved the Rivers State Executives of the Party at all levels.
APC) has said that the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Appeal Court judgement in the Kano State governorship election petition going round
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the average retail price of a litre of petrol increased from N195.29 in October 2022 to
Barely 48 hours after gunmen abducted the father of the vice chairman of Kwali Area Council of the FCT, alongside six others, in Yewuti village in Kwali, eight women were again abducted on a farm in Gwombe village in Gwargwada Chiefdom in Kuje Area Council of the territory. A resident of Gwargwada, Usman Yakubu, said the incident happened around 5pm on Monday. He said the women, all housewives, harvesting benni seed when the gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles appeared and surrounded them. A chief from a village in the chiefdom, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the abduction, saying, “In fact, four…
President Bola Tinubu says he deserves to be listed in the Guinness World Records for the reforms he has made since assuming office on May 29, 2023. Tinubu stated that during his time as governor of Lagos State between 1999 and 2007, he moved the state from zero to becoming the fifth largest economy on the continent, adding that his track record prepared him for the presidency. He made this known during the 10th German-Nigerian Business Forum in Berlin, Germany. His words: “For those who fear various obstacles, look at me; I come from the private sector, and I’m…