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    The Nigeria Immigration Service on Friday issued fresh travel protocols for passengers travelling from Nigeria to China, Europe and North America, and warned intending passengers to strictly comply with the guidelines to avoid being denied departure or being repatriation, the agency said in a statement.   The statement by NCS spokesman, Sunday James, […]

  Prominent leaders from the North-Central geopolitical zone have announced their exit from the Arewa Consultative Forum, citing the worsening insecurity in northern Nigeria, the Punch reported Thursday.   The leaders announced the formation of the North Central Peoples Forum as a platform to fight insecurity and marginalisation.   Addressing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, […]

The Nigerian government on Monday stamped a note of finality on the removal of subsidy on petrol, the Nation newspaper reported Tuesday.   It said the adjustment of tariff on electricity is driven by the need to guarantee efficiency in power supply.   The price of petrol went up from N138.63 to between N162 and […]

Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, has declared he would be glad to testify before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential panel, if he is summoned. The Presidential Panel has since July been probing allegations of wrong doing leveled against the former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, who […]

  President Donald Trump of the United States has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, for the second time.  Norwegian politician, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, made the nomination, and related to the ‘historic peace agreement’ between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. ‘As it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will follow in the footsteps […]

Despite repeated denials of culpability in the corruption and financial recklessness and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a new trove of documentary evidence obtained exclusively by www.www.aso.rocks search engine paints a disgusting picture of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Peter Nwaoboshi (PDP Delta-North), neck-deep in the unfolding scandal in […]

France’s largest hydrocarbons group Axens has won a contract to license key refinery technologies to one of Nigeria’s leading industrial conglomerates, the BUA Group, according to TheAfricaReport.   For Rabiu, the economics of the project are a ‘no-brainer’: “Nigeria imports 90% of it’s petroleum products. We spend 35% of our foreign exchange on importing petroleum […]

Two Policemen attached to Adams Oshiomhole, former chairman of All Progressives Congress, lost their lives on Tuesday after an articulated vehicle rammed into his convoy on his way to a political campaign rally.   The event took place near Oluku junction in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the Edo State.   Victor Oshoke, […]

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has slashed the rate payable on local currency savings deposits to 1.25 percent per annum, as it hailed declining market rates in the banking sector.   Interest rate on savings deposits is currently 3.75%, giving a cost-saving for the banks of 2.5%.   CBN said in a circular late […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over failure to “disclose information and documents relating to the names of people from whom N800 billion in looted public funds have been recovered, specific dates of the recovery, and details of projects on which the money has been spent.”   […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the transfer of the National Identity Management Commission to the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.   Approval for the transfer was based on the President’s consideration of the critical role of the NIMC towards the realization of the objectives of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy for […]

The Federal Government is investing N600bn as stimulus-response into Nigeria’s agricultural sector after the COVID-19 shutdown, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, has said.   The fund would be targeted at small-scale farmers to ensure food security and sustainability, Nanono explained.   Unlike in the past when governments invested cash which did […]