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DANGOTE REFINERY, NNPCL RESUME FIGHT OVER $1BN LOAN Dangote Group, owners of Dangote Refinery, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, have clashed over a $1 billion crude oil-backed loan. Recall that barely 24 hours ago, in a statement credited to NNPCL spokesperson Olufemi Soneye, the state-owned oil firm said it secured a $1 billion loan backed by crude …

NIGERIA’S NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS WEBSITE HACKED The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has raised an alarm that its official website has been hacked by unknown fraudsters. The Bureau, which made this known in a short statement issued on its X social media handle at 8.32pm on Wednesday, warned the general public to disregard any message or report posted on …

OVER HALF OF NIGERIANS WANT TO LEAVE THE COUNTY – REPORT Over half of Nigerians want to emigrate with the percentage who say they have given ‘a lot’ of thought to emigrating tripling since 2017, a new report has shown. According to the report, this proportion of citizens includes those living in urban areas, the country’s highly educated population, the …

YOU’RE ALL REELECTED,’ TINUBU TELLS LAWMAKERS AFTER ADDRESSING THEM AS 11th ASSEMBLY‘President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday jokingly declared that lawmakers in the 10th National Assembly were “all reelected”. This happened during the president’s presentation of the 2025 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly. Tinubu made the declaration after mistakenly referring to the 10th Assembly as the …

MANY CHILDREN FEARED DEAD IN IBADAN CARNIVAL STAMPEDE Many children have reportedly lost their lives in a stampede that occurred at a carnival in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. The incident occurred in the Bashorun area of Ibadan on Wednesday. The number of casualties have not been ascertained as at the time of filing this report. However, it was learnt that …

TINUBU PRESENTS N47.96TRN 2025 BUDGET TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a national budget of N47.96 trillion for 2025 to the joint session of the National Assembly. The President said the budget, which he said was put together based on economic realities, would trigger prosperity in Nigeria in 2025 if implemented to the letter. According to him, …

FORM ALLIANCE AGAINST TINUBU – LUKMAN TO OBJ, IBB, GEJ, BUHARI, GOWON A former national vice chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called on former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari; erstwhile Heads of State, Generals Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubukar to form alliance to stop President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in …

DRAMA AS LAWMAKERS STOP RENDITION Of TINUBU’S ANTHEM DURING BUDGET PRESENTATION Members of the National Assembly on Wednesday disrupted an attempt by some of their colleagues to sing President Bola Tinubu’s anthem, ‘On Your Mandate We Shall Stand’, during the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the 2025 budget presentation by the President. The incident occurred …

FG APPROVES ₦30BN MECHANISED FARMING GRANT FOR 30 AGRIC UNIVERSITIES The Federal Government has approved N30bn for the nation’s 30 universities of agriculture to immediately commence mechanised farming. The announcement came with a directive for specialised universities to focus strictly on their core mandates and cease offering programes unrelated to their original purpose. The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, …

MTN PAYS N200BN MONTHLY IN VAT — TAX COMMITTEE The Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has disclosed that MTN Nigeria contributes over N200 billion in Value Added Tax monthly, making it the largest contributor to the nation’s VAT pool. Oyedele made the disclosure recently while speaking as a panellist during Channels Television’s Town …