“It is an arbitrary order capable of undermining the operational independence of the NNPCL. By this order, Mr. President has wrested control of the finances of the NNPCL and donated the same to the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria. This is an unprecedented act, without any legal or ethical basis. It is also a violation of the principle of due process in public administration”
Author: Tina George
According to him, even if the ₦aira recovers for three months, it could “still crash because the fundamental problem has not been fixed, which is improving production, to deepen the balance of trade and payment for Nigeria.”
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it had suspended the ongoing re-run elections in specific constituencies of Kano, Akwa Ibom and Enugu states.
The President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar has condemned the recent murder of two Ekiti traditional rulers, saying if found, the perpetrators of such act are unfit to remain amidst human community.
Former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu for enabrking on private visit to France while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90 million ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared 10 aspirants for the February 22 Edo governorship primary election.
Troops of the Nigerian Army under the Joint Task Force in the North West, Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) has rescued 35 kidnapped victims in Katsina state.
Africa’s largest and Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery is set to diversify its source of crude oil by importing from Trafigura Group of the United States, Bloomberg reports.
President Bola Tinubu has approved the handing over by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) of revenue from sales of crude oil to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Six Almajiri boys, in Gubio Town of Borno state in Northern Nigeria, have lost their lives as a result of a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED), mistaken for scrap metal, Zagazola Makama has reported.