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#EndSARS: What Next on the Youth Movement?

#EndSARS: What Next on the Youth Movement? By Gidado Shuaib     Beyond #EndSARS protests, I see the ongoing mass action against the brutality of the Nigeria Police Force’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad as a social movement which can hardly be subdued by force. The movement which was initially...

Kerosene: Price Per Litre Increased By 0.42% Month-on-month – NBS

Kerosene: Price Per Litre Increased By 0.42% Month-on-month – NBS       According to the data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the average price per litre paid by consumers for National Household Kerosene increased by 0.42% month-on-month and by 9.27% year-on-year, from N346.53...

Nigeria’s Oil & Gas Earnings Climb To N24trn In 5yrs

Nigeria’s Oil & Gas Earnings Climb To N24trn In 5yrs       Despite the huge global crash in prices, Nigeria’s earnings from oil and gas in the first half of 2020, is N2.41 trillion just 8.7 per cent below the N2.63 trillion recorded in the corresponding period...

Budget 2021: FG Earmarks N152bn For Electricity

Budget 2021: FG Earmarks N152bn For Electricity       The Federal Government is to pay power generation companies through Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading, NBET, the sum of N152.416 billion in 2021. According to details of the 2021 budget now before National Assembly, this forms one of the largest...

IPPIS: PENGASSAN Threatens Oil, Gas Operations Over Salary Seizure

IPPIS: PENGASSAN Threatens Oil, Gas Operations Over Salary Seizure       Protesting oil workers under the aegies of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria have renewed their threat to disrupt oil and gas operations across the country over alleged Federal Government’s posture to enforce...

Lagos Atop As States’ IGR Drops By 11.7%

Lagos Atop As States’ IGR Drops By 11.7%       The Internally Generated Revenue of the states dropped to N612.87bn in the first six months of 2020 from N693.91bn in the corresponding period of 2019. The National Bureau of Statistics disclosed on Tuesday in its report published on...