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Reps Query BPE, AEDC Over Power Assets Sale

House of Representatives panel has queried the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) for their role in the sale of assets belonging to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The ad-hoc panel probing the sale of power assets chaired...

Flight Tickets Jump by 40% as JET-A1 Now Sells for N240/l

Flight tickets for the major airlines in the country have jumped by almost 40 percent due to the increase in the price of aviation fuel known as Jet-AI. A return ticket on the popular Abuja-Lagos route for the major domestic airlines is now between N70,000...

Nigerians to Pay More for International Passports

The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mr. Muhammad Babandede has said Nigerians would now have to pay more for their international passports. According to him, the hike in fees was necessitated by the high cost of producing the booklets abroad, which had...

FCTA Opens Kubwa Road Railway Overhead Bridge to Motorists

As promised by the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, the FCT Administration has completed and opened the entire Murtala Muhammed Expressway (Kubwa Road) to the motoring public. The Minister had pledged last month that his Administration is embarking on massive completion of some critical...

N450 Unremitted Revenue N793 million More Recovered

As the Federal Government intensifies efforts to recover unremitted operating surpluses by Agencies and increase Independent Revenue, an additional sum of N793 million has been recovered from three Federal Government Agencies by the Recovery Committee set up two weeks ago by the Minister of...

Nigerian Senate calls for Removal, Prosecution of SGF Babachir Lawal

The Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend and ensure prosecution of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, over alleged breach of Nigeria’s law in handling contracts awarded by the Presidential Initiative for the North East, PINE. The Senate’s resolution...