THE Federal Government has announced plans to collaborate with the Nigerian Navy to achieve its target of 3 million barrels per day (bpd) in crude oil production by 2025. Nigeria’s current output stands at approximately 1.8 million bpd, a…
THE family of the late Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has expressed dissatisfaction with the naming of an uncompleted project after him by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, describing the gesture as “premature and insincere.” The family emphasized that true honour…
THE Benue State House of Assembly, presided over by its Speaker, Hyacinth Dajo, on Monday, passed the 2025 Appropriation Bill of N550.1 billion. Leading the debate during plenary in Makurdi, the Chairman, House Standing Committee on Appropriation, Mr Cephas Dyako…
NO fewer than 101,330 households affected by the Sept.10, 2024 flood disaster in Maiduguri and its environs have received food and non-food items, including cash payments of N18.08 billion. The Chairman of the Relief Disbursement Committee, Mr Baba-Bukar Gujibawu, made…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a federal university in Southern Kaduna. Stanley Nkwocha, the spokesperson of Vice President Kashim Shettima, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, December 30, 2024. Nkwocha stated that Shettima made this known…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has expressed joy over the re-opening of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL). Tinubu described it as another remarkable achievement in 2024 that had strengthened Nigerians’ hope in…
THE Borno government has trained 162 women and girls in various trades to improve their social and economic wellbeing. The exercise is being implemented under the second phase of the Second Chance Women/Girls’ Skill programme, designed to empower mothers and…
THE Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has formally announced the appointment of Engr. Beks Dagogo-Jack, as its new National Secretary. This confirmation came after the endorsement of his nomination by PANDEF’s National Leader, Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke, along with the Chairman of…
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 30 December, 2024) IF the elites of the North will not ‘give’ President Bola Tinubu a second term, who told them that the South will give power back to them in 2027?…
THE Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company (WRPC), located in Warri, Delta State, has commenced production at a capacity of 125,000 barrels per day. The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, announced this development on…
