The Republic of the Niger, Republic of Benin and Togolese Republic did not pay a N5.86 billion electricity debt in 2020 from an invoice of N16.31bn issued to them by the Nigerian Electricity Market (NEM) for the year. According to the report for 2020 released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the companies for…
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Thursday said it would commence consultations to sue the Federal Government and the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH reports. The association made this known in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja. The…
The House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Petroleum Products Subsidy Regime from 2013 to 2022, on Thursday, grilled the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, over payments of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) by the Federal Government. Ahmed disclosed that the government spends N283 per litre of PMS…
There is suspense in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as loyalists of the party’s flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar and Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike meet today to reconcile the two parties. This is as the Board of Trustees (BoT) has urged party leaders to guard their utterances over the crisis within the party. It also urged…
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) is confident that the #EndSARS protest of October 2020 will not have any effect on the 2023 presidential election. Speaking with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Keyamo who is the official spokesperson of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council fie the 2023 presidential election said…
The federal government has blamed its inability to negotiate with university lecturers on insistence by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that they must be paid salaries for the six months they had been on strike.Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House correspondents yesterday during the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the…
All the police officers involved in this case, serving at Area F Ikeja, were identified and invited to the headquarters for 1100hrs today. @BNXN was equally requested to report at the headquarters same time, which he promptly agreed to. However, at about 1230hrs today, @BNXN called to explain that he was indisposed and requested more…
AS more auto companies shut their assembly plants in Nigeria, local assemblers have blamed the Federal Government for making vehicle production and the general business environment unfriendly for indigenous manufacturers.They spoke at a recent interactive forum in Abuja, where auto chief executive officers and relevant Federal Government ministries and agencies MDAs met to assess the…
The Federal Competition and Consumers Protection Commission, FCCPC, has directed payment systems operators, PSOs, such as Flutterwave, Opay, Paystack and Monify, as well as telecommunication companies, including Mobile Network Operators, MNOs, in Nigeria to stop providing support that enables the operations of illegal digital money lenders, also known as money sharks, in Nigeria. Executive Vice…
The Federal Government has renewed a multi-million dollar pipeline surveillance contract to a former militant leader and Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo It was gathered that the government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited signed the deal with Tompolo to end illegal bunkering,…