RIPPLES NG The House of Representatives has invited Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national planning as well as Ahmed Idris, the accountant-general of the federation over…
NAIRAMETRICS The Nigerian Senate has ruled out the use of unclaimed dividends to fund the 2021 Budget. The objection was raised by Senator Suleiman Kwari, the lawmaker representing Kaduna North District Zone I, at today’s senate plenary in Abuja. While…
NAIRAMETRICS The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has presented the 2021 budget titled “Budget of Recovery and Consolidation,” worth N448.66 billion to the Rivers State House of Assembly for consideration. According to a report by the News Agency of…
THE GUARDIAN Delta State Commissioner for Finance, Fidelis Tilije, has disclosed that the state’s debt profile currently stands at N207b. Speaking at a media briefing on the 2021 Budget breakdown in Asaba, Tilije noted that the appropriation bill Governor Ifeanyi…
SAHARA REPORTERS The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sacked Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei, Mr Cairo Ojougboh, Dr Joi Nunieh and others from functioning on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission. In a suit numbered ABJ/CS/617/2020, Justice Ahmed Mohammed,…
PM NEWS “I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. I’m not joking, I know I’m on air, and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother (GEJ), the battle…
THIS DAY An expert and Chairman of DAS Energy Services, Warri, Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has appealed to governors in South South states to build their own refinery. He noted that since the states had the raw material (crude…
PUNCH NEWS The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), has transmitted Finance Bill 2020 to the National Assembly for consideration and passage along with the 2021 Appropriation Bill presently before the parliament. Both President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; and…
THE GUARDIAN Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to caution Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, against denigrating the judiciary. He condemned Sylva’s scathing attack on the judiciary by alleging that…
THE NATION Massive oil spill has occurred in Bayelsa State polluting creeks and communities, it has been learnt. It was learnt that the spill which occurred on Sunday from facility suspected to belong to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC),…