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If the National Assembly passes  a new version of the Petroleum Industry Bill just submitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari,  then  state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Petroleum Products Pricing Agency will be scrapped.   In place of NNPC, the new bill, Petroleum Industry Bill 2020, is proposing the establishment of […]

  Nigeria’s  two industrial unions on Monday shelved their planned nationwide strike over the recent hikes in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol.   The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress suspended their plan after a marathon meeting with the government at which government also shelved for wo weeks the new increases. […]

  The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.   Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he […]

Boko Haram fighters on Friday killed at least 24 persons in an ambush  on the volatile Borno State, the Police have said.   Those killed included eight Policemen, part of those leading a convoy of persons displaced from the region who were billed to return to their ancestral land, according the Police, Edet Okon, a […]

Prof Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, who conducted the 2015 election that ushered President Muhammadu Buhari into office, warned on Friday that Nigerians faced an uncertain future.   “I believe that all Nigerians can no longer sit on the fence, as everybody needs to contribute to the cleansing of […]

The success of the recent Edo gubernatorial election notwithstanding, it is just as well that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, has read the riot act to INEC officials ahead of the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State where the incumbent Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the ruling All […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his single desire is to make sure that innocent Nigerians don’t suffer regardless of party affiliation. Speaking Friday when Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State led his Deputy, Philip Shuaibu and other party supporters to the State House on a thank-you-visit, President Buhari said: “I thank you for bringing […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared October 1 a sit-at-home day across states in the South-East region, which it described as Biafraland, The Punch repored Thursday.   IPOB stated that the sit-at-home declaration was in solidarity with its Yoruba brothers in the Diaspora agitating for Oduduwa Republic.   It said the decision was to […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday approved a $1,959,744,723.71 contract for a rail line that would link the country with Niger Republic.   Approval for the rail line was given at the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, according to Rotimi Amaechi, minister of Transportation, who spoke to State House correspondents at the end of the […]

  The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday cut the Monetary Policy Rate by one percentage point to 11.5%, in a bid to stimulate borrowing and lending to boost economic activities.   That was the key decision by the Monetary Policy Committee of the central bank, as it noted that the economy will likely continue […]