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October 12, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Customs Auction Smuggled Fuel

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has auctioned Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol seized by its operatives in Yola, Adamawa State. NCS Comptroller General, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this during a press briefing in the North-Eastern state. Represented by the NCS...

October 11, 2024 No Responses

FRSC Armed Squad: Bill Scales Second Reading

A Bill for an Act to Amend the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Act, 2007 to make provision for the establishment of the Road Safety Special Armed Squad has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill which...

October 11, 2024 No Responses

Lagos Flags Off ‘Ember Months‘ Safety Campaign

The Lagos State Driver’s Institute (LASDRI) has flagged off the year 2024 Ember Months Safety Advocacy Campaign with the theme: “Road Safety; A Collective Responsibility for Economic Sustainability”. Speaking at the event held at Ojodu Berger...

October 10, 2024 No Responses

NLC Faults Fuel Price Hike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday rejected the new increase in petrol pump price, saying it will further deepen poverty in the country. “It will further deepen poverty as production capacities dip, more jobs lost with multidimensional negative e...

October 7, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Commences Crude Oil Sales In Naira

Nigeria has officially commenced the sales of crude oil and refined petroleum products in naira, the Federal Government has announced. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, explained that in line with the Federal Executiv...

October 6, 2024 No Responses

Liyel Imoke: Alleged Expenditure Of $16b Delayed Power Sector Reforms

Former minister of power, who later served as Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has described alleged “expenditure” of $16 billion on the power sector by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration as misleading. Imoke, who was also Chairman of....

October 6, 2024 No Responses

Kaduna Denies Borrowing ₦36b

The Kaduna State Government has described a media report as false and misleading, alleging that the state has borrowed ₦36 billion in the past six months. The state government explained that it is paying nearly three times the loan size...

October 5, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu, Akume, Others For Catholic Herald Centenary Lecture

NIGERIA’S oldest surviving newspaper, The Catholic Herald weekly newspaper, a publication of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, is set to hold its Centenary Lecture and Awards presentation. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Secretary to the Government of th...

October 5, 2024 No Responses

NDDC To Remodel Foreign Scholarship Scheme

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is to remodel its Foreign Post Graduate Scholarship scheme to incorporate a tracking system to monitor the progress of its scholars after graduation, Addressing more than 200 scholars of the Commission, studying in...

October 4, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu Submits Tax Reform Bills To NASS

The Senate has received President Bola Tinubu’s communication seeking consideration and passage of the proposed Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform Bill to align with ongoing financial reforms of the Federal Government and enhance efficiency in tax compliance. The ...

October 2, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu Pledges Reduction In Food Prices

The Federal Government is focused on restoring peace to the troubled parts of the North so that farmers displaced by bandits and kidnapping can return to their farmlands and increase food production. “We expect to see a leap in food...

October 2, 2024 No Responses

FG Signs N122b Equity Participation Agreement With Six Gas Firms

The Federal Government has signed a N122 billion project equity participation agreement with six gas infrastructure companies aimed at transforming the midstream gas value chain across the country. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Reso...

October 1, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria @64: Don’t Lose Hope, NLC Urges Nigerians

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of the country’s 64th independence anniversary. In a message to Nigerians on Monday, the NLC President Joe Ajaero urged the downtrodden Nigerians who bear the marks or burden broke...

September 30, 2024 No Responses

FG Hands Over 64 CNG Buses To Labour, NANS

The Federal Government has handed over 64 100-capacity Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to the Organised Labour and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, led the gov...