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Nigerians Consumed 54.5m Litres Of Petrol Daily In June — NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has said 54.5 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol, was consumed in June 2021. This means that daily petrol consumption dropped by 17.8m in June from the 72.3m litres daily recorded in…

13/12/2021

No TIN-For-Bank Account Requirement In Finance Bill — Presidency

The Presidency said on Sunday that there is no provision in the Finance Bill (2022) that states that banks will be required to request for Tax Identification Number before opening bank accounts for individuals and existing account holders must provide their TIN…

13/12/2021

Buhari Tackles Daily Trust Over Critical Editorial On Insecurity In Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari has described as ‘lurid political journalism,’ an editorial in the Daily Trust newspaper criticising the administration’s handling of Nigeria’s security situation. Daily Trust, one of Nigeria’s most-read newspapers, published an editorial Sunday titled: “Life has lost its value under Buhari’s…

13/12/2021

Umahi To IPOB: You Can’t Stop Buhari From Visiting

Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi has said the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) cannot stop President Muhammadu Buhari from visiting any state in the Southeast. He was reacting to a statement credited to IPOB spokesman Emma Powerful last week in which the group…

13/12/2021

NFF Sacks Rohr, Appoints Eguavoen As Interim Super Eagles Manager

FOLLOWING months of speculation on the status of the senior national team coach, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has sacked Gernot Rohr and appointed its technical director Augustine Eguavoen as the interim technical adviser of the Super Eagles. This follows the termination…

13/12/2021

Religion Preventing Nigerians From Thinking Like Rational Humans — Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says religion has become a major problem in the country, preventing Nigerians from thinking rationally. “Religion has become the number one problem for Nigerians,” Mr Soyinka said, adding that any religion that becomes an excuse for the adherents…

12/12/2021

How Justice Babalakin Intervened When Obasanjo Held Lagos LGA Funds — Osinbajo

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, went down memory lane during his condolence visit to the family of the late Justice Bolarinwa Babalakin in Gbogan, Osun State yesterday, recalling the vital efforts he made to get President Olusegun Obasanjo to change his…

12/12/2021

Probe ‘missing N10bn NASS funds in 2019’, SERAP tells Lawan, Gbajabiamila

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila to “promptly probe and refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies fresh allegations that N10bn of public money budgeted for the…

12/12/2021

Siemens Power Project Take-off Plans At Advanced Stage – Minister

The minister of Power, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu has assured that the Siemens Power Project would commence from next year, as plans for the take-off have reached an advanced stage. Engr Aliyu disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, during a workshop organized by the…

12/12/2021

Litigations: INEC To Blame For Judges’ Corruption, Stakeholders Tell Jega

Public commentators have blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the rash of litigations that usually follows the conduct of elections in the country. They noted that if the elections had been transparent and standard there would have been fewer or no…

12/12/2021

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