The Peoples Democratic Party’s serving and former Governors’ Reconciliation Committee led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki held a meeting with members of the party’s National Working Committee on Monday to address the recent wave of defections, the issue of the National Secretary, and other related issues. Sources said that the meeting, which included PDP […]

. Rectors, provosts, principals, examiners to meet JAMB chiefs, candidates decry results discrepancies The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will on Thursday review the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination following what it described as “unusual” public complaints. A notice in Abuja confirmed that the review meeting would bring together vice-chancellors, provosts, rectors, […]

Oil marketers have declared that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and others in Nigeria may raise the pump price of petrol to N1,500 per litre once there is an outright ban on fuel importation. While the National Publicity Secretary of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Udadike, affirmed this, the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet […]

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has set June 27 to give a final judgment in the case filed by suspended Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Akpoti-Uduaghan is challenging her suspension from the Senate. She took the matter to court after the Senate, led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, suspended her […]

The World Bank on Monday revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is remitting only 50 per cent of the gains generated from the removal of petrol subsidies to the federation account. In its latest Nigeria Development Update report released Monday, the global institution said NNPC started transferring the revenue gains to the […]

President Bola Tinubu presenting the 2025 budget proposal to members of the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 in Abuja. Photo Credit: Presidency The World Bank has described Nigeria’s 2025 federal budget as overly ambitious, warning that the Federal Government may be forced to turn to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Ways and Means […]

•As Dangote Refinery exports diesel, imports crude Oil marketers have flooded the domestic market with 283, 577 metric tonnes of imported Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol and other petroleum products. This was even as the 650,000 Dangote Petroleum Refinery exported 44,000 metric tonnes of diesel to the global market while making preparations […]