There is every danger that addressing a topic like this might yield another exercise in vain lamentation when what our country needs to do is take and give effect to rational decisions about the oil sector. For instance, the discourse around the resource curse has had a deep resonance for many Nigerians because it vividly sums up the paradox between ... Read More »
The presidency has denied reports in sections of the media that funds will be drawn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) for the relief package approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari approved a N400 billion bailout on Monday to clear the backlog of salaries in states and local governments. Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, ... Read More »
Senator Danjuma Goje, a former governor of Gombe State, who is currently representing Gombe Central Senatorial District in the Senate has been expelled from All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Gombe state chapter of the ruling party. Making this disclosure at the party’s secretariat in Gombe on Monday, the Gombe APC State Chairman, Magaji Doho said Goje was expelled with ... Read More »
The Kaduna state governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Monday formally abolished ‘joint account’ and announced that his government would be remitting 10 percent of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to local government councils in the state. The Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the governor, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in a statement shortly after the governor swore in chairmen of ... Read More »
The federal government and the 36 states have agreed to share $1.7billion of the $2billion balance in the Excess Crude Account. After the amount, which is about N391billion,is shared, there will be just about $.3billion remaining in the account which was created to help the two tiers of government save for raining days. The Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole, had ... Read More »
Bayelsa State legislators have summoned local officials to discover why some government employees have gone unpaid. The lawmakers also expressed their concern over the employees’ livelihoods, calling these unpaid salaries their lifeline. The Bayelsa State House of Assembly summoned the Council Chairmen and other officials of the state’s eight Local Government Areas (LGA) this weekend over issues of non-payment of ... Read More »
Taraba State Governor, Darius Dickson Ishaku Monday, said he will not abandon his predecessor, Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, who has been recuperating from the multiple injuries he suffered in a plane crash in 2012. Ishaku spoke in a release signed by former Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Emmanuel Bello, while reacting to social media reports that he (Ishaku) has “forsaken Suntai, ... Read More »
Immediate past former governor of Benue State, Dr. Gabriel Suswam, has denied reports that he battered his wife in London, over which he was briefly arrested and detained by the police. The former governor also denied that his wife, Yemisi, looted the state treasury while he was governor of the state. Suswam, in a statement personally signed by him, described ... Read More »
Strong allegation of planned bribery by the Rivers State Government has begun to swirl around the State’s Governorship Election Petition Tribunal ahead of its Monday meeting. Apart from reportedly frustrating effort to inspect the ballots allegedly used in the election in the state amongst other antics, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Nyesome Wike were also said to ... Read More »
The Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Friday, alerted the general public on the activities of some people impersonating him via various social media platforms with the intention of defrauding unsuspecting citizens. The governor, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna, said some unscrupulous characters were attempting to capitalise on his goodwill to dupe members of ... Read More »
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