THIS DAY Nigeria’s oil industry is understandably filled with expectations over the agenda of our new Oil Minister. Many industry executives and stakeholders believe that Timipre Sylva, sworn-in as the Petroleum Minister six weeks ago, has the gravitas to fix…
PREMIUM TIMES President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presented the year 2020 budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly. Mr Buhari, who arrived the National Assembly chambers at about 2 p.m., presented the budget to lawmakers. The president…
PREMIUM TIMES A Federal High Court in Abuja has slated Monday for hearing of Nigerian journalist, Jones Abiri’s application for the variation of his bail terms. The lawyer representing Mr Abiri, Emanuel Ogala, told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday that his application for…
PREMIUM TIMES Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, ordered the temporary forfeiture of four bank drafts totalling N37.5m and a hotel, La Diva, belonging to Calistus Obi, a former acting Director-General, Nigerian…
GUARDIAN NEWS The federal government’s proposed plan to reintroduce toll gates on federal highways in the country has been rejected by organized labor. The organized labor urged the federal government to put in place an efficient police before returning toll…
THE GUARDIAN The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo has adopted a no-zoning policy in picking the party’s governorship candidate for the state gubernatorial election in 2020. The party also resolved that the position of the state chairman of the…
VANGUARD The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has bestowed the award of the ‘2019 Best Performing Governor’ on the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. he teachers said the governor emerged as winner of the award in recognition of…
PUNCH NEWS Mixed reactions continue the Federal Government’s proposal to return toll gates to highways 10 years after their removal. Some stakeholders in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Friday shared their views on the…
REUTERS Nigeria’s legislature on Thursday increased the value of the country’s 2020 budget outline to 10.729 trillion naira ($35 billion) based on expectations of higher oil prices. The legislature passed a medium-term expenditure framework that increased the anticipated oil price…
LEADERSHIP NEWS Since the restoration of full-blown democracy in Nigeria in 1999, Edo State has never had problem having good governors. The major challenge the state had faced was that it never had the right or people’s governor. The good…