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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has uncovered an illegal four-kilometer pipeline from Forcados in Delta State to the sea and a loading port that was part of an elaborate crude theft operation for the last nine years. Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer, NNPC made this known yesterday when he appeared before a joint
The government of Qatar has requested for a change in dates for the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country in September. According to a note dated August 19 from the embassy of Qatar in Abuja to the ministry of foreign affairs, the dates of the proposed visitation “are not suitable”. The note established
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammad Buhari to “direct the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) to provide our organization with a copy of the agreement the Federal Government recently signed with the United States for the repatriation of $23 million stolen by late General Sani
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has awarded Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, a pipeline surveillance contract. The former militant leader was the Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). The deal is described as a renewal as Tompolo got a similar deal during the Goodluck Jonathan administration. The government and the
Nigerian governors advised President Muhammadu Buhari-led’s government to take some urgent steps as part of coordinated efforts to instill fiscal discipline and prevent the nation from economic collapse. The governors made the proposal at a meeting with Mr. Buhari last month, PREMIUM TIMES gathered from sources privy to details of the meeting. This newspaper reported
Nigerians are beginning to ask the right questions to their leaders. The Minister of Finance, Budget and economic planning, Zainab Ahmed is one of the President Buhari’s ministers that reeks of incompetence and glows in how own circle of corruption with impunity. The call-out took the center stage since her unfortunate and regrettable defense of FG’s
The Federal Government has confirmed that it approved the purchase of vehicles worth N1.4 billion for neighboring Niger Republic to tackle insecurity. The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed gave the confirmation on Wednesday, explaining that providing intervention to the neighboring Niger Republic is not new and it is the prerogative of
Amid biting inflation and rising hunger in the country, some personnel of the Nigerian Army, Navy, and Air Force, on Tuesday night, complained about the delay by the federal government in paying their July salaries. The Abuja-based soldiers who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity said they and their colleagues are unhappy
Every day, annoying and Provocative news emerge in Nigeria that one may ordinarily think it wouldn’t be real. Almost all the time, it has come out to be real. David Hundeyin ,an investigative journalist who has been doing the lord’s work for Nigerians has yet dug out another unfortunate story indicting Buhari and his cabals
Some senators walked out on the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday, after he allegedly refused the Minority Leader, Senator Philip Aduda, to allow them to lead the motion on the impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Aduda and some other senators of the Peoples Democratic Party then walked out of the