The federal government’s proposed 2025 budget has come under attack by industry groups and analysts who expressed disappointment over the assumptions, benchmarks and figures in the budget. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, faulted the key parameters and assumptions on which the proposed 2025 budget was based, saying they are to...
•Tinubu Two public commentators have today asked President Bola Tinubu to surrender his officer as substantive minister of petroleum to a competent Nigerian. Baba Yusuf and Femi Odeere argued that retaining the office of petroleum minister for himself since he composed his cabinet in August 2023 has not boosted the country’s daily oil producti...
•Fuel scarcity Some experts in the oil and gas sector have said Nigeria was not ripe to stop the importation of refined petroleum products, asking the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority not to bow to pressure. The experts stated this in the wake of allegations by the NMDPRA Chief Executive, Farouk Ahmed, that [&he...
•Tinubu Stakeholders have scored PresiÂdent Bola Ahmed Tinubu low on his performance more than six months after taking over the reins of government, saying his administration has worsened the conÂdition of Nigerians. Most of the stakeholders who spoke to our correspondents on President Tinubu’s administration so far, while noting his boldness ...

