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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Tuesday advised Minister of Power, Mr. Babatunde Fashola to “ensure that regulatory authorities are not allowed to get away with 45 percent increase in electricity tarrifs by promoting compliance with the November 2013 ruling on the matter by two UN special rapporteurs.” This followed a nationawide protest on Monday […]Read More

The new Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Mohammad Mustapha Abdallah (rtd.), has read a riot act to drug traffickers in Nigeria, promising to intensify the war against drug barons in the country and completely incapacitate drug trafficking organisations. Mr. Abdallah, who had been busy with budget defense for the […]

UNICEF is a respected organisation all over the world, but it seems in Nigeria, the international organisation is beginning to lose credibility. The United Nations’ Children Fund in Nigeria has been working with corrupt government officials who swindle a number of people, including journalists. Or how can you explain that it’s been five months now […]

Nigeria’s Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has assured stakeholders in the petroleum sector that the 8th Senate will live up to the yearnings of Nigerians by passing the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which will add value and restore the pride of the industry. Senator Saraki stated this when he played host to the in-coming Chairman, […]

6 Shares Share Tweet Share Email Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, asked President  Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday to withdraw the budget he presented to the National Assembly now that it has been discovered to have been forged, warning that Nigeria under Buhari may be undergoing forgery. “If under a President that says he is […]

The Nigerian secret police said on Monday that it had arrested in Nigeria a recruiter for the Islamic State and several other terrorists willing to go to Libya or the middle east to fight. Press Statement In line with the Service statutory mandate  to decisively and continually provide actionable intelligence as well as act to […]

In Daura, the very home of Nigeria’s President in Katsina State, is a budding terrorist cell affiliated to the Middle East killers, the Islamic State or ISIS. Daura is the spiritual home of the Hausa people and along with Katsina are referred to by the University of California’s African American Studies Department as having been the “ancient seats of Islamic […]Read More

THESE, certainly are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd) popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury looters. The ongoing battle by President Muhammadu Buhari against this  corrupt cabal who have held this nation hostage for years leaves no one in doubt that it is no longer business as usual […]

In another bad news for oil-producing countries like Nigeria, the International Energy Agency has revealed that the oil glut in the world is more than what was expected. Prior to the latest report, supply of oil in the world market was more than consumption by as much as 1.75 million barrels per day compared to […]

Nigeria stands the risk of having its membership suspended from the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative because it failed to meet the deadline to publish the 2013 audit reports for its extractive industry. The Punch reports that EITI made the threat on Monday during a meeting, which had representatives from both agencies as well as […]

Month CPI Urban Rural Jan 18.55 20.33 18.18 Feb 17.99 16.31 18.34 Mar 17.38 14.84 17.92 Apr 12.76 10.88 13.16 May 10.18 11.67 9.88 Jun 12.22 13.06 12.05 Jul 15.57 16.42 15.40 Aug 12.28 10.41 12.66 Sep 9.97 7.67 10.47 Oct 5.37 7.87 4.86 Nov 12.15 10.20 12.56 Dec 12.17 10.82 12.37 The post above […]Read More

Month CPI Urban Rural Jan 10.59 9.25 10.87 Feb 7.27 7.31 7.26 Mar 5.86 5.03 6.04 Apr 8.27 8.97 8.12 May 8.67 9.97 8.41 Jun 13.99 14.79 13.57 Jul 12.92 19.07 10.83 Aug 12.44 22.79 9.40 Sep 18.37 22.52 16.62 Oct 23.60 24.95 22.88 Nov 21.29 27.90 19.05 Dec 23.81 24.20 23.91 The post above […]Read More