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Nigerian civil servants under the employment of the Federal Government will experience a delay in the payment of May 2023 salaries, The PUNCH learnt. Our correspondent gathered that this was because Ministries, Departments and Agencies were yet to get debit approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Earlier, some civil servants in separate interviews with […]
The meeting between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel subsidy removal has ended without a consensus. The meeting began around 4pm on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa. Representatives of the Federal Government, including Dele Alake, the spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu; and the Group CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum […]
The candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has faulted President Bola Tinubu over his announcement on the removal of fuel subsidy. Sowore stated this in a statement via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. The AAC presidential candidate, who opposes the fuel subsidy removal, said Tinubu failed to announce an increase in […]
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to stop Nigerians and other nationals from getting citizenship for their children born in the United States if wins the 2024 election. Trump said he would issue an order during his first day back at the White House in January 2025 to deny citizenship to children with parents who […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja told former Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has the right to suspend or expel him if the action is done in accordance with the law. Justice James Omotosho stated this in a judgement he delivered on a suit filed by Wike […]
Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, says the federal government still owes the firm the sum of N2.8 trillion spent on petrol subsidy. Addressing journalists after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, on Tuesday, Kyari said the subsidy payment was no longer sustainable as […]
NNPC Limited, has confirmed the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry with petrol now selling at market price following the removal of subsidy by President Bola Tinubu. NNPC, in a statement by its Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Garba Deen Muhammad on Wednesday, said pump price at its retail stations have […]
The Zamfara State Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Kabir Garba Marafa, has said President Bola Tinubu is putting plans in place to strengthen the reward system in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He said with Tinubu at the helm of affairs of the country, the era of ‘monkey de work baboon […]
A total of 118 exhibits have been presented before the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in his case against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and the PDP approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Tinubu, who contested under […]
An anti-corruption group in Lagos State has asked President Bola Tinubu and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to reopen all abandoned fraud cases in Nigeria. The youths, under the aegis of the Transparency Society Network, want the President to revisit the cases of corruption and bring them to a logical conclusion. In a […]