BY GODWIN OBI Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nassarawa State says the government of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari spent more than the $19 billion used in building the Dangote Refinery in the maintenance of the country’s refineries. Nigeria has refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Warri but none is functioning with expertsContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday, told the Presidential Election Petitions Court that they could not upload the February 25 presidential election results on the Result Viewing Portal (IReV) even though they were able to upload the Senatorial and House of RepresentativesContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI ABUJA-Five ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have been okayed to testify as special witnesses in the petition that a former vice president and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidentialContinue Reading
Kanwan Katsina District Head ketare Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara ‘mni’ delivering his Speech during the reception in Kankara Local Government secretariat BY GODWIN OBI The Kanwan Katsina District Head Ketare Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara has called on people to entensify prayers for the success of the new administration of MalContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “set up a presidential panel of enquiry to promptly probe the grim allegations that US$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccountedContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Federal Government says it will consider the list of demands from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) which includes minimum wage. Speaking to State House correspondents after a meeting between the Federal Government and the TUC which lasted for about three hours, the spokesperson for the FederalContinue Reading
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, is optimistic that the fuel queues across the country will be a thing of the past in the next two days. On Monday during his inaugural speech at the Eagle Square in Abuja, President BolaContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The immediate past Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC),Barr. Hassan Bello, has been conferred with the prestigious National HonoursAward of Order of the Niger (OON).Bello, who had been listed for the award by the administration of former PresidentMuhammadu Buhari, received it in Abuja on JuneContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government over discriminatory, unfair and illegal treatment of its members. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, filed the suit on Tuesday at the National Industrial Court in Abuja, the nation’s capital, onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The meeting between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel subsidy removal has ended without a consensus. The meeting began around 4 pm on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Representatives of the Federal Government included Dele Alake, the spokesperson for President BolaContinue Reading