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Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi (C) talks to the media at his house in Amatutu on February 25, 2023, before polls open during Nigeria’s presidential and general election. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images) ***Knocks NLC, TUC for rejecting subsidy removal The Lamidi Apapa faction of Labour Party (LP) has asked the …

For decades, the Nigerian economy has been in the doldrums bookmarked by tattered finances, anaemic growth, fiscal recklessness, official waste, local capacity utilisation, high inflation and extremely low labour productivity.   Many efforts have been made to pull it out of the cesspit but most handlers stop at the level of lip service and conceptualisation without the right courage. For eight years, …

President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori and the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Former Governors Wike, Ibori Makinde arrived the State House at about 4:20 pm. Ibori and President Tinubu served as governors between 1999 and 2007, while …

Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, who is insisting that he won the presidential election held on February 25, on Thursday, produced certified copies of results of the election from six states of the federation, to support his claim. Obi tendered the results, which were obtained from 115 Local Government Areas, LGAs, in evidence before the Presidential …

The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a confused man. Sowore made this known in a tweet on Friday, June 2, 2023, while reacting to the President’s directive to service chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies on Thursday to deal with perpetrators of oil theft. PUNCH reports …

New presiding officers of the National Assembly will be elected on 13 June when the 10th session of the federal legislature will be inaugurated. President Bola Tinubu met with Senate President Ahmad Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday in Abuja over the choice of the leadership for the 10th National Assembly. Mr Lawan …

—Says Nigeria can’t be on its knees while other countries ‘re making progress—Mandates security heads to come up with a blueprint—To change security architecture soon President Bola Tinubu on Thursday told Service Chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies to crush anyone involved in oil theft, saying that his administration will not tolerate such menace. The President also said …

Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, said yesterday that the present high cost of petrol will crash in no distant time, allaying the fears of Nigerians about the development. It will be recalled that the company came up with a new template which fixed the price of the product at between N488 and …

•Refineries’ production, input costs will raise price to current level – Kyari •NNPCL says 1.8 billion litres petrol available, queues won’t exceed Saturday •Reps demand relief, palliatives for Nigerians, want oil swap deal suspended The local production of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, by Dangote Refinery, Port Harcourt Refining Company and others in Nigeria is not going to …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL said a total of 1.8 billion litres petrol are available, adding that the fuel queues being witnessed across the country will not exceed Saturday (3rd June). The NNPCL’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television in Abuja on Thursday. Kyari said, “I don’t see it staying …