Tag: Federal government of Nigeria
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You should Sell Oil Refineries to Fix East-West Road, UHF Tells Federal Govt
National leader of Unity House Foundation (UHF), a non-profit advocacy group, Wenenda Wali, has asked the federal government to sell the moribund oil refineries and use the proceeds of the sale to construct the East-West Road in the Niger Delta region. Wali said this in a statement in reaction to a call by the chairman…
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FG loses N335m to oil spill, says report
Nigeria lost about N335m to oil spilled between January and August 2023, according to estimation from data released by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency. NOSDRA, in its oil spill data for the period under review, said a total of 168 incidents of oil spill incidents, which cost the country a loss of…
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Fuel subsidy removal: FG saves N400bn in four weeks – Operators
Operators within the downstream oil and gas sector have said the federal government has raked in N400 billion due to fuel subsidy removal in the last 30 days On Friday, Chinedu Okonkwo, National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, disclosed this in an interview with DAILY POST. Recall that in a meeting…
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Tinubu arrives Lagos from London ahead of Sallah
President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday evening, arrived in Lagos from London ahead of Wednesday’s Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. Tinubu’s Gulfstream jet arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, at 05:05 pm local time where he was welcomed by a waiting crowd of supporters. This concludes his one-week trip to Paris—where he attended a summit for A…
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Buhari hands over N974bn uncompleted road projects
President Bola Tinubu’s administration inherited 38 uncompleted road projects worth N979bn from the Muhammadu Buhari government, findings by The BUZZFEED have shown. The projects were identified through an analysis of the 2023 budget and cross-checked with the national monitoring and evaluation platform, EYEMARK, which was launched by Buhari in December last year. The BUZZFEED reports…