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President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, November 20, told international investors that beyond natural resources, Nigeria’s greatest assets are its highly educated, highly skilled, and naturally industrious people. President Tinubu spoke in Berlin, Germany, at a panel discussion titled: “Fostering Local Value Chains and Investments in Africa – The Role of the German Private Sector” at the G20 Compact with Africa ... Read More »

A group of community leaders under the auspices of Ejemah Ebube community in Ogoni-Rivers State had made a deliberate threat to shut all operations of the Firstbank in Nigeria over their refusal to pay the court awarded fine by Shell development Oil Company for environmental pollutions and desecrating their fathers land. The awarded money was said to amount to sum ... Read More »

..AGF: respect court order. Organised Labour yesterday declared the commencement of a nationwide strike from midnight yesterday. This is despite Friday’s interim injunction by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and their affiliates from embarking on the strike. The court’s president, Justice Benedict Kanyip, granted the order while ... Read More »

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said his refinery has secured a licence to refine more than 300,000 barrels of Nigerian crude per day and will begin to process gasoline soon. “We don’t want to start our refinery with foreign goods, we want to start with the Nigerian crude,” Dangote said in an interview in Riyadh on the sidelines of ... Read More »

The mobile telecommunication corporation, MTN, has alluded to the recent debt cancellation status on its subscribers’ network as a system error. The network provider made this known in a tweet on its official handle on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. The firm explained that an unexpected glitch in its system caused the cancellation of debt owed by its network subscribers, ... Read More »

“The grand delusion that made Mr. Obi believe he could have won a national election where he ran the most hateful, divisive and polarising campaign that pitched Christians against Muslims and one ethnic group against the other in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society like Nigeria should be a matter for deeper examination. “At the press conference where he tried, in ... Read More »

Following public reactions over the provision for what is termed a presidential yacht and other line items in the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation presented to the National Assembly, the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has provided some clarifications. In a statement issued on Thursday, November 2, Onanuga said that what was named as Presidential Yacht ... Read More »

The Canadian Government has expressed readiness to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda by supporting the humanitarian and poverty alleviation response in Nigeria. The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Jamie Christoff, made this known when he led his team to visit the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu at her office in Abuja. Ambassador ... Read More »

Ten years after the partial privatisation of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, the Federal Government, on Monday, admitted that the exercise had failed to meet its objectives. The government described as shameful the current generation, transmission and distribution level of just over 4,000 Megawatts. Speaking in Abuja at the 2023 NESI Market Participants and Stakeholders Roundtable, NMPSR, President Bola ... Read More »

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has filed a criminal charge against the suspended Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof Cyril Ndifon. The decision followed the conclusion of an investigation by the anti-graft commission. In the charge sheet with number: FHC/ABJ/CR/511/2023, ICPC is arraigning the lecturer on a four-count charge bordering on sexual harassment, official ... Read More »