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As the National Assembly puts final touches to the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), a lecturer and former Commissioner for Economic Development in Akwa Ibom State, Professor Christopher Ekong, has advocated proper scrutiny of the bill before its final passage. He ...

A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has sued President Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the National Assembly over submission of the 2019 and 2020 budget estimates of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC). ...

Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has charged the leadership of the country to see the slump in crude oil price due to outbreak of coronavirus pandemic as a wake-up call for Nigeria to look towards an economy without oil. The ...

In spite of being blessed with abundant solid minerals, the sector has only contributed N400 billion to the Nigerian economy in 12 years. A Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) report showed that the industry posted N69.47 billion to the ...

The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment yesterday announced Nigeria’s readiness to host the inaugural Afrika Business and Investment Forum (AFRIBIF) 2020. According to the Director of Investment Promotion in the ministry, Mrs Olukemi Arodudu, the event would hold ...

The Senate Committee on Science and Technology has condemned the frosty relationships between governing boards of some Federal Government agencies and their chief executives. The panel chairman, Senator Uche Lilian Iyom Ekwunife (Anambra Central), who spoke at the weekend in ...

The Federal Government has told the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that it had “no record of the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and the spending of about ...

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has raised the alarm over the preponderance of redundant skill acquisition centres worth over N8 billion in the Niger Delta. Akpabio made the disclosure yesterday at a roundtable on Strategic Implementation Work ...

Following the abduction of the wife of one of its member, Mrs. Christiana Ekanem, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Cross River chapter has embarked on an indefinite strike. The captive, an assistant director at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike in the interest of students. He also urged the lecturers to consider negotiating with the Federal Government ...