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The Federal Government says it has plans to deliver Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) on at least four key projects within the nation’s oil and gas industry by the end of last quarter of 2019. President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this during the ongoing 24th World Energy Congress (WEC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. A statement by Mr Ndu Ughamadu, the spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday in Abuja, however, said the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipreye Sylva, represented the President at the congress. Buhari said his vision was to bequeath a…

Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, Mrs Maryam Uwais, says the Federal Government is in the process of  building a National Social Register (NSR) for a reliable database of poor and vulnerable households across the country. Uwais disclosed this in a statement by Justice Bibiye, Communications Manager, National Social Investment Office (NSIO), on Tuesday in Abuja. The presidential aide delivered the keynote address at the 14th Anti-corruption situation room forum organised by the Human Environment Development Agenda (HEDA) in Maiduguri, Borno State. According to Uwais, the NSR can be desegregated into age, gender, disability, educational levels, among others…

The National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal has upheld the election Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport. Buhari is the Senator representing Oyo North in the senate. The judgement, which was read by Justice Sambo Daka, on the petition, marked EPT/OY/SEN/09/2019,  stated that the petitioners Mulikat Adeola-Akande and her party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed to prove their petition beyond a reasonable doubt. READ: [LIVE UPDATES] Buhari vs Atiku: Tribunal decides on 2019 election Also among the panel were Justice Anthony Akpovi (Chairman) and Justice Chinyere Ani. The panel also awarded a cost of…

A youthful Super Eagles team came close to bringing down Ukraine at the Dnipro Arena on Tuesday before suffering loss of concentration that saw them draw 2-2 conceding two goals in 45 seconds. Debutant Joseph Ayodele-Aribo put the seal on a frenetic beginning at the 31,000 –capacity venue when he cleverly connected home a cross by Alex Iwobi after great work by Samuel Kalu had left the Ukrainian defence in tatters. In the event, the Glasgow Rangers FC of Scotland forward became the 60th player to score right on international debut for Nigeria. Two minutes later, Samuel Chukwueze drove into…

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja will today deliver judgment in the case instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the outcome of the February 23, 2019 presidential election. At about 8.31 am on Wednessday morning  heavy security agencies surrounded the venue – at least 20 police officers and three DSS officers sighted. 8.18 am   It was gathered that arrangement has been put in place for a live broadcast of the judgment but the faces of the judges will not be shown – cameras will be focussed on the bar and the gallery.…

International students will be allowed to stay in the UK for two years after graduation to find a job, under new proposals announced by the Home Office. The move reverses a decision made in 2012 by then-Home Secretary Theresa May that forced overseas students to leave four months after finishing a degree. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the change would see students “unlock their potential” and begin careers in the UK. But campaign group Migration Watch called it a “retrograde” step. The change will apply to international students in the UK – there were around 450,000 last year – who start courses…

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Nelson Braimbraifa, as well as his directors were absent   as  the House of Representatives  began probe of abandoned projects in Niger Delta  in Abuja on Tuesday. The House Committee on NDDC, who frowned upon the development,   therefore ordered  Braimbraifa  and his directors to appear  before them on Friday. However, they asked Emefiele to appear on Monday. The panel  threatened to order their  arrest if they failed to invitations. A member of the committee, Buba Yusuf, raised a point of…

Residents of Adamawa on Tuesday lauded the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) that was flagged off by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in the state. The residents displayed placards that showed their acceptance of NLTP and disapproval of the suspended RUGA. One the placards read, “No Foreign Herdsmen” while another read, “No To Mobile Livestock Husbandry”. The placards were carried by the beneficiaries of the scheme who fully supported the Plan which emphasizes ranching and crop farming side by side. The Gongoshi farm has 192 crop farmers and a ranch. The placards which said “No foreign Herdsmen” and “No settlement of…

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa. Inaugurating the project on Tuesday, Osinbajo said the plan is designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of Federal Government’s initiative in collaboration with States under the auspices of the National Economic Council (NEC). He said the plan, targeted at supporting the development of Nigeria’s livestock sector, is to be implemented in seven pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara. According to the vice president, the plan will be implemented…

The Federal Government received two trillion naira as revenue  from January to June 2019, Director-General of the Budget Office, Mr Ben Akabueze, has said. Akabueze disclosed this at the Public Consultative Forum on the 2020 to 2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) in Abuja on Tuesday. He explained that within the period under review, about N3.3 trillion was expended by the Federal Government. The director-general said that there was an average of 1.6 million barrel of crude oil production per day on base production. He disclosed that an aggregate of four trillion naira revenue was collected…