BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu on Friday received the director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Asher Wray, assuring him that Nigeria is working hard to eliminate terrorism, cybercrime, and other criminal activities. Tinubu spoke during a meeting with the FBI director at the StateContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A Lagos-based group, Nigerian Maritime Renaissance Network (NMRN) has said that the new Nigerian Shipping and Port Economic Regulatory Agency Bill 2023, which is currently being considered by the House of Representatives may suffer setback like the previous ones because it lacks clarity in addressing its coreContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Eight months after the Federal Government commenced payment of N35,000, a wage award in addition to N30,000 minimum wage to workers, and urged state governments to replicate it, 15 states are yet to do so while seven paid briefly and stopped. The wage award was to lessenContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Court of Appeal has set aside contempt proceedings initiated by the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Olanipekun Olukoyede. In a unanimous judgement read by Justice Joseph Oyewole, he set aside the proceedings while overrulingContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Chairman of the Dangote Group Aliko Dangote has accused those he described as oil mafia of trying to sabotage the refinery project. Dangote who was speaking at the Afreximbank annual meetings (AAN) and AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas, on Wednesday, said theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has cautioned that the prevailing winners-take-all approach to politics in Nigeria is detrimental to political justice and unity. Speaking as chairman of a national symposium to mark Democracy Day at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, he emphasised the need for a more inclusiveContinue Reading
The Nigerian Police Force has warned against planned demonstrations by certain individuals and groups to hold protests in several parts of the country on Democracy Day. The Force also placed its Zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police and State Command Commissioners of Police on red alert, directing that they shouldContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Organised Labour says it won’t accept any ₦62,000 or ₦100,000 “starvation wage” as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. Chris Onyeka, an Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), stated this on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief show on Monday. He insisted onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Executive Secretary/CEO of Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Akutah Pius Ukeyima, has commended West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) for its high level of investment, automation, and services they are offering. The NSC CEO gave the commendation during his recent visit to the terminal in Onne, Rivers State.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Barely two weeks after Nigeria Customs Service launched “Operation Whirlwind” – a decisive onslaught against illegal trade of petroleum products across Nigeria’s borders, the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Adewale Adeniyi, says the Service has started recording massive turnout in curtailing the menace of PMS smuggling acrossContinue Reading