archiveMay 3, 2019

Comfort Melaye, the mother of the lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye, is dead. The lawmaker announced the death of his mother on Twitter on Thursday night. Melaye did not, however, give details of the death. He wrote, “With total submission to the will of the Almighty...

  Nigerian state oil company NNPC said that 132 companies had bid for the right to swap the nation’s crude oil for fuels as a tender for the deals closed on Thursday. The tender for the one-year contracts, dubbed direct sale, direct-purchase (DSDP), was issued in March. NNPC extended the...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Thursday approved N9.2 billion for the construction of seven model schools and supply of antiretroviral drugs to persons living with HIV/AIDS across Nigeria. The meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, started at about by 4:30 p.m. and ended...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan arrived South Africa Thursday to lead an observer mission to monitor the country’s general election scheduled for May 8. In a series of tweets, Jonathan said he would be heading the election observer mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA). The former...

  The Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mr. Mohammad Barkindo, has said the group does not politicise crude oil. This development is coming as OPEC and other oil-producing countries led by Russia will on May 19 review their agreement to cut down on oil output...

  ... As states’ IGR hits N324.59bn in Q4,2018   Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said that Nigeria’s unemployment rate may hit 33.5 per cent by 2020. The minister made the revelation while declaring open a two-day workshop on “Breaking the Resilience of High Unemployment Rate...