Repairs and revenue losses from damaged cables are estimated to have cost Nigeria’s telecom industry almost N27 billion ($23 million) in 2023, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg. According to the report, MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa Plc bore the brunt of the costs. MTN suffered more than 6,000 cuts on its fibre cable last […]...
•Gunmen At least 2,583 people were killed and 2,164 kidnapped in the first quarter of this year, a data from Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited, a security risk management and intelligence company based in Abuja, has shown. The data, which recorded the number of killings and abductions across the country from January to March, showed [&h...
•Tinubu and Obazee The Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu to probe the activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during the tenure of the Godwin Emefiele has concluded its assignment and presented its report to the President. State House Correspondents got hints of this, when the former Chief Executive Officer of the...
•INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will no longer register any election observer that fails to submit its report, after monitoring elections it conducted. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this at the commission’s first quarterly consultative meeting with Civil Society Organis...
A report by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF) has indicted the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) for non-remittance of billions of naira into the federation account. The audit report for the 2020 financial year submitted to the National Assembly in November last year, b...
•Adebayo-Shittu Former Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, says that Steven Oronsaye’s report was not presented to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari during his administration. Shittu was a minister during Buhari’s first term in office between 2015 and 2019, reports Saturday PUNCH. According to him, the report was not brought to the attentio...
•Tinubu and Al Thani President Bola Tinubu has re-echoed his government’s resolve to fight corruption and create a good business environment, urging Qatari investors to report any Nigerian government official who asks for bribe. Tinubu said this at the Nigeria-Qatar Business and Investment Forum in Doha, yesterday, promising that his governmen...
•Nigerian Governors Forum Following the order by President Bola TÃnubu for the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, especially as it pertains to cutting down the cost of governance, the state governors are under pressure to toe the same line. The pressure is coming from Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, who have challenged the state go...
The House of Representatives, yesterday, described the 2012 Steve Oronsaye Report as outdated and called on President Bola Tinubu to thoroughly review it before going ahead to implement the same. The House, therefore, raised a 23-man committee chaired by House Leader, Julius Ihonvbere, to recommend appropriate measures to mitigate the likely f...
•Femi Falana Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has described as outdated, the 12-year old Steve Oronsaye Report recommending the merger of government agencies and commissions. In a statement yesterday, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said contrary to the belief in official circles, the report won’t “substantially reduce the enormous costs of g...