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BREAKING: NNPC New Charge on Marketers Hikes Petrol Prices

NNPC New Charge on Marketers to Lead to Higher Petrol Prices In a report published by The Leadership newspaper, marketers are raising the price of PMS at the pump to reflect the new charges to the NNPC. The report stated that the Nigerian National Petroleum...

FG to Address Nigerian Women’s Disadvantage in Business Leadership

By Lawan Bukar Maigana The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari will create a “seat at the table” and other special interventions to support and promote women inclusion in the government. She...

Fuel Scarcity: A Strategy To Inflate Prices, Analysts Argue

Nigerians have said the current fuel price increase is a ploy by the Buhari administration to impose the botched petrol subsidy removal on them. In response to the failure to remove subsidies from petrol, they claim the government has created artificial scarcity to inflate...

NNPC’s N621bn Intervention Aiding Completion of Suleja, Lambata Roads – FG

The Federal Government has said the N621 billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) tax intervention for road construction, is ensuring speedy realisation of the completion of the Suleja-Bida and Lambata -Bida roads. The Director, Highways Construction and Rehabilitation, Folorunso Esan, said this at the inspection...

Nigerian Government Apologizes: Sale and Import of Dirty Fuel

An official statement from the Federal Government of Nigeria has been issued to explain the current fuel shortages in the country. According to the government, it identified extremely high levels of methanol in one of its public supplies but claimed that it had been...

Exclusive: Former Rivers Governor, Peter Odili, Fingered in Alleged N2m Extortion of Medical Students

  By Abdulrahman Abdulraheem  The PAMO University of Medical Sciences, located in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital, has been thrown into turmoil and uncertainty over a major disagreement between the management of the School and parents of the students.  Parents are up in arms against the Management...