Nigeria: Oil Spills - Shell Set to Pay $16M Compensation to Niger Delta Farmers

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) yesterday announced that it would pay €15 million to farmers in three Niger Delta communities as compensation for damages to their… Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Declares Dec. 26, 27, January 2nd Public Holidays

The federal government has declared December 26 and 27, 2022, and January 2, 2023, as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Day celebrations respectively. Read more »

Nigeria: Atala's OML46 - Senate Asks NUPRC to Reallocate Licence to Hardy Oil, Others

The Senate yesterday faulted the revocation of Atala Marginal Oil Field (OML 46) in February 2020, by the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), now Nigerian Upstream… Read more »

Nigeria/Morocco: Nigeria Drop As Morocco Hit Top Spot in FIFA Rankings

With Nigeria not involved in any activity including the just concluded FIFA World Cup finals in Qatar, the Super Eagles dropped further in the latest FIFA ranking released… Read more »

Nigeria: PDP to Buhari - Don't Waste Your Time Campaigning for Tinubu

The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, yesterday, advised President Muhammadu Buhari, not to waste his precious time campaigning for the presidential candidate of the… Read more »

Nigeria: History As Sanwo-Olu Completes Infrastructure Work On Lagos Blue Rail Line

History was made in Lagos State yesterday as at exactly 1:31pm Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu formally stepped into the coach of the newly completed Lagos Blue Line and… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Press Organisation Initiated Arise, Tinubu Campaign Meeting, Say NPAN, NGE, NUJ

The Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Nigerian Guild of Editors and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) have explained the intervention of the Nigerian Media… Read more »

Nigeria: For LUTH, Its Six Decades of Healthcare Delivery, Viable Partnerships

Rebecca Ejifoma reports that amongst other monumental feats in providing Lagosians and Nigerians excellent and quality healthcare services, to commemorate its six decades of… Read more »

Nigeria: Traders Seek Urgent Govt's Intervention On Road Infrastructure

The Association of Progressive Traders Nigeria (APTN), has called on the federal government to intervene in the deteriorating state of the road infrastructure around the Trade Fair… Read more »

Nigeria: N20.51trn 2023 Budget Suffers Setback As National Assembly Adjourns Until Next Wednesday

The final consideration and passage of the N20.51 trillion 2023 budget suffered a setback in both the Senate and the House of Representatives chambers on Thursday. Read more »

Nigeria: Flood Disaster - Buhari Seeks National Assembly's Approval for N819.5bn Supplementary Budget

President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted to the National Assembly, a supplementary budget totalling N819.5 billion for the 2022 fiscal year. Read more »

Nigeria: British Parliamentarian Seeks Independent Institutions Ahead of 2023 Elections - Emefiele

The move by the Department of State Services (DSS) against Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was yesterday raised in the British House of Lords by… Read more »

Nigeria: We Can No Longer Deliver $1.96bn Eastern Railway Corridor By May - Govt

The federal government has disclosed that Its initial promise to complete the narrow gauge Eastern railway corridor before the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari's… Read more »

Nigeria: House to Probe Alleged Loss of $2.4bn From Illegal Sale of 48 Million Barrels of Crude

The House of Representatives has resolved to constitute an Ad-hoc committee to investigate a whistle-blower's allegations of the illegal sale of 48 million barrels of Nigeria's… Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Approves N135.9bn for Road Projects, N3bn for Payment of Police Life Insurance Premiums

The federal government has approved N135.9 billion for cost variation of various road projects across the country as well as N3 billion for payment of life insurance premiums for… Read more »

Nigeria: With 'Eyemark,'Citizens, CSOs Now Empowered to Monitor, Evaluate Govt's Projects - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the readiness of the federal government towards promoting sustainable development by creating a digital application, Eyemark, that enables… Read more »

Nigeria: 15 Years After, NUPRC Announces Bid for Seven Deep Offshore Oil Assets

Fifteen years after it last put up about 45 deep offshore assets for public bidding, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), yesterday announced that the… Read more »

Nigeria: I'm Ready to Campaign for Tinubu, All APC Candidates - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his readiness to campaign vigorously for the victory of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola… Read more »

Nigeria: Fayose's Allies Kick Against Inclusion of Sdp Members in Atiku's Campaign Team in Ekiti

Fresh crisis seems to be brewing in the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the inclusion of members who had defected to the Social Democratic Party… Read more »

Nigeria: At 16.67%, Foreign Portfolio Investments in Stock Market Hits Over 9-Year Low

Amid 2023 political uncertainty and scarcity of foreign exchange, foreign portfolio investments in the Nigerian stock market dropped to 16.67 per cent in 11 months of 2022, the… Read more »

Nigeria: Report Highlights Port Logistics, Access to Finance As Factors Hindering Exports

For Nigeria to maximise recent reforms embarked upon by the federal government to increase the country's earnings from non-oil export, the government should improve port logistics,… Read more »

Nigeria: Buhari Transmits Finance Bill 2022 to House

President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted Finance Bill, 2022 Read more »

Nigeria: Okupe Resigns As Labour Party Campaign DG

The Director General of Labour Party Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has announced his resignation from the party's campaign council over what he described as personal travails. Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Reaps $547m From 5G Spectrum Auction - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that auctioning of the 5G spectrum generated $547 million into federal government coffers. Read more »

Nigeria: Buhari Expresses Gratitude to Well-Wishers On His 80th Birthday

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed appreciation for the many cards and well-wishes he received on his 80th birthday anniversary. Read more »