The Renewed Hope Ambassadors of Nigeria (RHAN) has applauded the Nigerian Navy’s aggressive onslaught on crude oil theft and other maritime crimes in the Niger Delta region. The group said the Navy’s operations have drastically reduced the negative trend, notably ...
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Activist Demands N10bn Damages From Telecoms For Barring Phone Lines
A rights campaigner, Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, on Monday filed a suit before a Federal High Court Lagos against telecommunications companies over recent barring of phone lines. Joined as respondents in the suit are the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), its Chief ...
Read More »Review Fuel Subsidy Removal, Falana Tells Tinubu
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has asked the President Bola Tinubu led federal government to review the fuel subsidy removal policy following claims that Nigeria still pays for it. Although Tinubu, on his inauguration as president, declared an end ...
Read More »FARMING SEASON: FG Begins Distribution of Grains This Week
…Sets to flood market with 58,500 metric tonnes of rice The Federal Government has announced that the distribution of 42,000 metric tonnes of grains directed by President Bola Tinubu will commence across the 36 states of the federation this week. ...
Read More »SERAP Seeks Court Order For Tinubu To Probe Missing $3.4bn IMF Loan
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to compel President Bola Tinubu to investigate the missing $3.4 billion loan. The rights organisation noted that the loan was obtained from the ...
Read More »Peace Corps Bill Passes In Reps
The clamour to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps got a boost yesterday as the House Representatives passed for third and final reading a Bill for an Act to establish the security outfit. The Nigerian Peace Corps Establishment Bill, which seeks ...
Read More »Odegbami Calls On NFF To Appoint Indigenous Coach For Super Eagles
Former Nigeria international, Segun Odegbami, has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), to look inward for an indigenous coach to handle the Super Eagles. Odegbami made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ...
Read More »Price Pressures Push Purchasing Power Of Nigerians Downward In February
Price pressures intensified in the Nigerian private sector during February and were unprecedented in over a decade of data collection, even as both input costs and output prices increased at the sharpest rates on record, with rising prices impacting demand. ...
Read More »DisCos Rejecting Electricity Uptake Risk Sanctions – Power Minister
The federal government has accused some electricity distribution companies (DisCos) of deliberately refusing to take up power supply from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) thereby contributing to the current power crisis. Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who made this ...
Read More »LCCI Urges Monetary, Fiscal Authorities To Address Soaring Inflation Rates
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called on the monetary and fiscal authorities to focus on the factors driving inflation rates by tackling the supply-side deficiencies instead of focusing too much attention on the demand-side management. The ...
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