A joint committee of the House of Representatives has summoned the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mr. Mele Kyari, to appear before it on May 8 over an investigation into environmental degradation caused by the activities of oil companies in oil producing communities. The Chairman of th...
•Recruits The Senate Majority Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, yesterday, decried the poor remuneration for security agencies, saying that recruits are paid less than N50,000 a month. Ndume, the former Chairman of Senate Committee on the Army, asked the federal government to urgently review the stipends and salaries of serving military personnel...
•Tinubu Outrage yesterday trailed Northern senators’ position on the relocation of federal agencies to Lagos from Abuja. The senators had, aside from expressing angst against relocation of the agencies, also protested what they described as lopsided allocation between the North and South in the 2024 budget, arguing that the development was des...
•Tinubu About N85 billion has been proposed to be spent on vehicles by 12 federal government agencies and 13 ministries in 2024. This is more than the N84.7bn budgets of Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi (N37.6bn), University College Hospital, Ibadan (N27.2bn) and Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), If...
The immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has rejoined his family after perfecting his bail condition. The authorities of the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Kuje, confirmed yesterday that Emefiele was let home a little after 2pm on Friday. The Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, had granted him bail wit...
•Aviation Minister, Festus Keyamo The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has appointed new directors for civil aviation agencies in the country one week after the federal government sacked all directors and chief executive officers of the agencies. In a statement today, a spokesman for the ministry, Odutayo Oluseyi,...
Less than 24 hours after sacking all heads of aviation agencies, the federal government has relieved all the directors of the agencies of their appointments. The Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development announced the sack of the directors in a statement signed by the Head of Press and Public Affairs, Odutayo Oluseyi. The directors were [...
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, and the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, have said government agencies, ministries, departments, MDAs, have become undertakers of businesses in the country. They also lamented that rising inflation, multiplicity of taxes and threats of strike and protests, among others, have cont...