•Lokpobiri and Diri The Minister for State Petroleum Resources (Oil) Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, has promised to look into the issues surrounding the ownership of Atala Oil Field said to belong to Bayelsa State government. The Minister of State made the commitment today when Governor Diri Douye of Bayelsa State paid him a courtesy visit, reports ...
•Muhammad Ali Pate The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, says other nations recruit health workers who left Nigeria for greener pastures overseas because of the level of training the health workers received back in Nigeria. Pate stated this today during a briefing organised by the Ministry of Information an...
•Tinubu The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawlle, has directed the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) to go after all the propagators calling for truncation of the constitutional government in the country, describing them as criminals and enemies of democracy who should be brought to justice. According to the minister, “some mischief m...
•Buhari and Tinubu The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has blamed the current inflation in the country on printing of trillions of naira during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari “without productivity.” The minister spoke yesterday during an interface with the Senate Committee on Finance, ...
Distribution Companies, TCN summoned Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) are to be held accountable henceforth for poor power supply in the country, the federal government said yesterday. Tough sanctions, including licence revocation, await them, Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu threatened, reports The Nation. “Moving forward, I’m commit...
•Mariya Mahmoud and the looted warehouse The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mariya Mahmoud has described the looting of a warehouse in the area as a “criminal act”. Some suspected hoodlums had on Sunday looted the warehouse in the Gwagwa-Tasha of the FCT, carting away food items, reports Channels TV. During an inspection [&...
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has summoned the Chief Executives of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) over the worsening power supply in their regions. The Minister in a statement by his media aide, Bolaji Tunji, also summoned the Managing Director of the Transmission Com...
•Lagbaja and Adelabu Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu has assured the Army of his readiness to dialogue with Distribution Companies (DisCos) over its electricity debt burden amounting to N42 billion. The Minister spoke when the Chief of Army Staff ( CAS) Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja visited and appealed for his intervention over the de...
•Port Harcourt refinery The federal government has said the Port Harcourt Refinery is 80 per cent completed and would produce two million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, and 2.2 million litres of diesel per day upon resuming operations. In a statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations in the Federal [&helli...
The federal government has declared its intention to review the ban on alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and PET bottles that are less than 200mls. This followed a peaceful protest staged at the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja today, Wednesday, February 21, by the members of the Food, Beverage & Tobacco Senior Staff Association (FO...