Fuel scarcity looms as marketers, suppliers battle challenges

Supply of petroleum products across the federation may be disrupted in the coming days, as multiple challenges confront marketers, haulage companies and their workers. The operators, yesterday, said over 90 per cent of trucks, conveying petroleum products, are stocked in different parts of the country, especially in the Okpella area of Edo, Omuo-Ekiti in Ekiti, […]

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Buhari withdraws approval for release of $209m, N32b ship finance fund

NIMASA to halt registration of single hull ships in December 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari has withdrawn his earlier approval that over $209 million and N32 billion be released to Nigerian investors in the maritime industry under the Cabotage Vessel Finance Fund (CVFF) scheme. Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, who disclosed this at the weekend during […]

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Fashola disowns 2023 presidency online campaign poster

Works and Housing Minister, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has urged well-meaning people to disregard the invitation of some groups operating under The Nigeria Project 2023, purportedly to the inauguration of a support group for the minister and Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, over the 2023 elections. Social media was awash at the weekend with a poster […]

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States await Supreme Court speedy decision on VAT dispute – Fayemi

Photo/ facebook/ekitistategov Sees no problem with implementing anti-open grazing law Nigeria’s tax system problematic, Supreme Court to expedite action on VAT Country lacks fund to build economy, borrowing a necessity Governors need to manage finance responsibly El-Rufai, Akeredolu altercations on open grazing needless Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode […]

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Germany’s Social Democrats win election but uncertainty beckons

German Finance Minister, Vice-Chancellor and the Social Democrats (SPD) candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a press statement at the party’s headquarters in Berlin on September 27, 2021, one day after general elections. (Photo by Christof Stache / AFP) Germany slipped Monday into a period of political unpredictability after the Social Democrats narrowly won a […]

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Striking doctors yet to contact FG on new demands – Ngige

• We are open to dialogue, says NARD The Federal Government on Sunday night said it has not received any official communication from resident doctors on their minimum demands for an end of their 56-day old strike. The government however, assured that it would make its position known to the doctors once it received such […]

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Nigeria at 61: Access Bank to reward 14 customers with N1m each

Access Bank Plc is set to reward 14 customers with N1 million each in the DiamondXtra Independence Splash to commemorate Nigeria’s 61st Independence Anniversary. Mr Victor Etuokwu the bank’s Executive Director, Retail Banking, made this known in a statement made available to the newsmen in Lagos on Monday. “The DiamondXtra Independence Splash draw which is […]

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I woke from the dead, Kelly Price U.S. singer recounts COVID-19 experience

Kelly Price has revealed she woke from the dead during her Covid-19 battle, as she broke her silence following reports she was missing. Price debunked the reports she was missing. ‘I was never missing. I was in my home, I was being seen by doctors. Everyone in my family knew exactly where I was”, she […]

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Court adjourns suit challenging Atiku’s eligibility to contest presidency

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday adjourned a suit seeking to challenge former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s eligibility to vie for the office of the president until December 6. Justice Inyang Ekwo adjourned the matter following inability of the parties in the suit to regularise their amended processes to accommodate the 5th defendant (Attorney-General (AG) […]

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