•Atiku Abubakar The Atiku Nioo Campaign Organisation has backed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s call for the reversal of fuel subsidy and cancellation of the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), arguing that the subsidy removal and the introduction of student loans compounded the current hunger and hardship facing Nigerians. The organ...
•Abdulaziz Yari The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected calls for a return of petrol subsidy, warning Nigerians against politicians promising to reverse one of the major economic reforms introduced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Director General of the APC 2027 Presidential Campaign Council, Abdulaziz Yari, said any politician campai...
•Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe The federal government has announced plans to phase out electricity subsidy payments from 2027 as part of efforts to address mounting debts in the power sector. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe disclosed the plan during a media interactive session today, saying the subsidy would be removed gradually and consumers...
•Patients waiting to be attended to at the Pediatric Ward of Abaji General Hospital One year after the federal government declared that public institutions including hospitals and tertiary institutions would enjoy 50 percent subsidies on electricity, the promise is yet to be redeemed. While the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, was the first...
•Pilgrims The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has stated that the federal government will not subsidise hajj payment for pilgrims in 2025. Government subsidy is mostly in the form of concessionary rate which allows pilgrims to access dollars at a reduced rate from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). A statement by the spokesperson ...
•Protesters in Osun State today Protesters in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, took to the streets today to express their grievances regarding the current economic hardships facing the country. The demonstrators called on President Bola Tinubu to reverse the removal of fuel subsidies in an effort to curb the rising cost of living, including ...
Dangote Petroleum Refinery, sole producer of petrol being off taken and distributed for Nigerians, has declared that the government should end subsidy, a move that would cause imminent surge in the prices of the product to as high as N1,800 litre. The Founder of the 650,000 barrels per day capacity refinery, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who […...
•Tinubu Petroleum marketers, refiners, and depot owners in Nigeria have called for the full deregulation of the downstream oil sector, seeking to end government price controls due to subsidies. The Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria, in collaboration with the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, Crude Oil...
•Former Executive Secretary, NEITI, Waziri Adio A former Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Waiziri Adio, has asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) to be transparent in its dealing. He said this while reacting to the national oil company’s response to reports th...
•Bago Niger State Governor Umaru Bago yesterday called for the review of activities of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). Bago, who called for the probe of the N90 billion subsidy paid by the federal government for the Hajj operations, vowed to lead a committee of governors to meet relevant authorities to champion the […]...
The Frontier is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. It is published by Okims Media Links Limited headed by Sunny Okim, a veteran journalist who is widely known as The Grandmaster, fondly called so by colleagues and friends for being Nigeria’s pioneer movie journalist.
© 2026 The Frontier, Published by Okims Media Links Limited.
designed by winnet services
