33 Successful Bidders Lose FG’s Marginal Oil-Field Awards

ABUJA — A total of 128 awardees that emerged as successful bidders in the 2020 Marginal Field Bid Round have made complete and part payments for signature bonuses in the oil fields, the Federal Government said on Thursday. It also disclosed that 33 awardees did not make payments during the 45 days window given to successful bidders to pay the required signature bonuses for the oil fields and as such had lost their awards to...

Wike Wins FG as Court Stops Illegal Deduction from Federation Account

ABUJA — A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday stopped the Federal Government from further making deductions from the Federation Account to fund its own agencies not listed in the 1999 Constitution for direct allocation. The court declared as illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional the direct allocations made so far by the government from the Federation Account to fund the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. Delivering Judgment in a suit instituted by the Rivers State Government...

NNPC Needs N10trn For Fuel Subsidy In 2022 – Finance Minister

ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has requested the sum of three trillion naira (N3,000,000,000,000) as fuel subsidy for 2022. Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting which was chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. “In 2022, because of the increased crude oil price per barrel in the global market, now at $80 per barrel, and also because...

Ekiti 2022: APC Adopts Direct Primary, Members to Queue Behind Aspirant Posters

ADO EKITI — The Chairman, All Progressives Congress Primary Election Committee for Ekiti State and Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru, said on Wednesday that party members who would vote in the primary elections across 177 wards in the state would queue behind their preferred aspirant’s poster. Badaru said that the stakeholders and aspirants had resolved that only members with valid membership cards and as well as voter cards would be allowed to participate in...

Obi Cubana Gives Scholarship, N100,000 Salary On Hawkers Who Gives Prisoners Money on Traffic

LAGOS — Businessman and socialite, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, kept to his promise as he has offered a letter of scholarship to Jeremiah Ekumah. Earlier last week, Ekuma, a young hawker, was caught on camera in the Ajah area of Lagos, giving money to persons who were being transported to prison in a Nigerian Correctional Service van. Obi Cubana, who chairs the Cubana Group, last Saturday, in an interview with media personality,...

Obasanjo Rejects Invitation to Return to PDP, Vows to Remain a Statesman

ABEOKUTA — Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has rejected the invitation by the leaders of the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday, saying that he will not return to the party. The octogenarian made his position known when a delegation of the PDP leader led by the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, four former governors, and members of the party’s National Working Committee visited him at his residence in Abeokuta. The team include...

NLC Demands Implementation of N30,000 Minimum Wages for Zamfara Workers

The Nigeria Labour Congress, Zamfara Council, has demanded immediate implementation of the N30,000 new national minimum wage failure of which will force it to join the body’s proposed nationwide strike. This is contained in a communique issued by Zamfara NLC Chairman, Sani Halliru and acting Secretary, Ahmad Abubakar in Gusau, on Saturday. According to the communique, “The State Executive Council in session is not satisfied with the minimum level consideration and treatment being accorded to...

Lagos Sets to Collect N800 Daily Levies from Danfo, Taxi, Others from February 1

LAGOS — The Lagos State Government has said that danfo, taxi, and other commercial vehicles in the state will begin to pay N800 levy daily from February 1, 2022. This is after the state government and transportation stakeholders in the State on Tuesday signed an agreement and officially unveiled the ‘Consolidated Informal Transport Sector Levy’ to harmonise dues collected by the government from commercial motorists at parks and garages across the State. This was made...

INEC Debunks Tinubu’s Claims, Says PVCs Don’t Expire

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has countered a claim by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that Permanent Voters’ Cards have expired. Tinubu had made the claim while addressing women leaders of the APC who paid him a visit in Abuja, on Tuesday. The former governor of Lagos State also lamented that there had been a decline in the number of eligible voters in recent times. Reacting, Chief...

Electoral Act Amendment: NASS Boss, Allows Direct and Indirect Primaries

ABUJA — The National Assembly has accepted the demand of the executive by re-amending the Electoral Act Amendment Bill on Wednesday and approved direct and indirect primaries. Both chambers made the pre-amendment in separate plenary sessions. In the Senate, the lawmakers also added the consensus clause for the nomination of candidates by political parties for elective positions. In a statement, the upper chamber equally noted that “a political party that adopts the direct primaries procedure...

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