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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the spending on the country’s four refineries, and alleged corruption and mismanagement of public money budgeted for the rehabilitation, operation, and maintenance of the refineries since 1999. SERAP request which was contained in a letter dated March 5, 2022, and signed by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, also …

Prevaling economic realities, especially the rising price of crude oil at the international market, and the cost of petrol subsidy, which is threatening the 36 states could worsen the financial crisis facing the states ahead of 2023 election. Already the states’ governors have expressed concerns, and are asking the Federal Government to remove subsidies and save states from going bankrupt. …

When Ololade Fayemi moved into a new apartment in April last year at the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos, she did not know that the residents had been living in darkness. A gas explosion in the area in October 2020 had damaged their transformer and left them without electricity. The 30-year-old, who runs a fashion-designing business in her home, said houses connected to the transformer …

•As FG reconstitutes team to renegotiate 2009 agreements•Govt deliberately undermining education, says don The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, demanded immediate resignation of the Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu, over incessant strikes embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). It also asked the minister to tender an unreserved apology to the nation for walking out on the …

His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Most Revd (Dr.) Lucius Ugorji, as the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri in Imo State. Pope Francis, represented by Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, His Grace, Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi, made the announcement on Sunday in Abuja, at the ongoing opening ceremony of the first plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in 2022. …

*NDLEA to arraign suspended ‘super cop,’ four IRT members on eight counts of drug trafficking The federal government has commenced moves to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, to the United States of America to face fraud allegations. Few hours after the extradition process commenced, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), which currently has Kyari …

The Federal Government of Nigeria is expected to pay the International Monetary Fund a total of $3.51bn between 2022 and 2026 to offset a $3.4bn loan. This is according to information obtained from a webpage on the IMF’s website, titled ‘Nigeria: Financial Position in the Fund as of January 31, 2022.’ In April 2020, the IMF disbursed a $3.4bn emergency …

* NNPC intensifies monitoring of product distribution to end queues Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, will miss his engagement at this year’s energy summit, tagged: ‘CERAWeek’ in the United States, billed to start tomorrow. NNPC also yesterday stepped up efforts to end the ongoing petrol scarcity with a product evacuation and distribution …

The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed optimism that despite his ordeals before Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja where he is facing trial over alleged terrorism, victory is certain. File photo: Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, with his lawyers and others during his trial at the Federal High …

Intense fighting in area around nuclear plantU.S. says assault of plant risked catastropheLviv prepares for child casualtiesNATO says ‘no’ to no-fly-zones Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant on Friday in an assault that caused alarm around the world and that Washington said had risked catastrophe, although officials said later that the facility was now safe. Fighting …