The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says it is close to achieving 100 per cent crude oil production capacity, following strengthened collaboration with security and intelligence agencies. Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Bayo Ojulari, announced this on Monday at the opening of the maiden African Chiefs of Defence Staff Summit in Abuja. He said…
Rear Adm James Okosun on Monday, in Abuja, assumed command as the 21st Commandant of the National Defence College (NDC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okosun took over from Rear Adm. Olumuyiwa Olotu. The new commandant in his inaugural remarks, pledged to build on the foundation laid by his predecessor, while commending…
An Oyo State High in Ibadan on Wednesday fixed Oct. 21 for further hearing in a forgery and impersonation case leveled against Pastor Moses Ayantoye of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC). Justice Racheal Akintola adjourned the case after the defence Counsel, Mr Anthony Daramola, finished cross examination of the prosecution witness, DSP Charles Oluwatoki, an investigation…
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) on Tuesday suspended its strike which started on Monday. JUSUN announced the suspension in a commiunque issued after its meetings with the representatives of the Chief Judge of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. The commiunque signed by all shareholders present, said this was after long deliberations on issues…
The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Mr. Bosun Tijani, says Nigeria’s digital economy sector is projected to contribute 21 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2027. Tijani disclosed this on Monday at a one-day public hearing on the National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill 2025, organised by the Senate…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has hit the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, over his criticism of the poverty index under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. In a statement yesterday titled, “Factually Addressing Mr. Peter Obi’s Criticism of Nigeria at Johns Hopkins University,” Sanwo-Olu said Obi is not morally well placed…
The Nigeria Country Director, World Bank Group, Dr Ndiame Diop, has called on the Federal Government to infuse structural and economic reforms to transform Nigeria. Diop stated this in Ibadan on Tuesday at the Distinguished Personality Lecture Series of the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan (UI). He said that economic transformation to create…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the island nations of the Pacific to “show the way” in protecting the planet from the ravages of climate change. Guterres made the call at the opening of the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga on Monday, where he also called on the rest of the world to step up…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Kenyan scholar Prof. Patrick Lumumba, and the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, are among the key speakers expected at the 2025 National Leadership Conference in Abuja. The two-day event, themed “Transforming Minds and Inspiring Results,” is organised by the GOTNI Leadership Foundation and will open on Sept. 5 at…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has announced that the CEO of Qatar Airways, Mr Temi Birdzell, along with four senior officials of the airline, will be arraigned before Nigeria’s Federal High Court on 7 October 2025 for alleged breaches of the country’s consumer protection laws. The arraignment, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was…
