$2.6bn AKK Pipeline 10% Completed - Contractor       About 100 per cent local content is currently deployed for the construction of the $2.6bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, the contractor handling the project, Oilserv Limited, has said. The Managing Director, Oilserv, Emeka Okwuosa, also told journalists during a...

Food Prices: Roots and Tubers To The Rescue By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta         The other day the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) while reporting the current inflation rate, indicated that despite the huge effort to boost productivity in the agriculture sector, the prices of food appreciated and...

New Gas Project To Add N2.8trn To Nigeria’s Economy         About N2.8 trillion-revenue is expected from a new 200 million cubic feet gas project being promoted by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This revenue is expected to...

National Assembly Passes N13.58trn Budget For 2021         The National Assembly, Monday passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill to the tune of N13, 588, 027,886, 175 trillion as an aggregate expenditure. The approval was done during an emergency session convened for the purpose of passing the budget. The approved...

Insecurity in North West Nigeria: Armed Banditry or Jihadist Expansionism?  By Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim       North West Nigeria has for the past four to five decades suffered from waves of crisis and violence. The trajectory of such violence started with ethno-religious clashes and moved through electoral violence,...

Katsina, New Haven of Terror-Banditry in Nigeria? By Yushau A. Shuaib Was it not strange that the abduction of Kankara boys occurred on the day President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Daura, his hometown, in Katsina State, on a private visit? It is even more curious that the...