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Nigeria can no longer rely on underground crude reserves alone to lure foreign energy capital, according to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria. The senior energy union delivered the frank assessment in a communiqué following its annual energy summit in Abuja. Union chiefs warned that global oil majors now weigh regulatory…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally defended its refusal to release criminal investigative files concerning Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, citing strict statutory privacy exemptions under American law. In legal filings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, American law enforcement agencies argued that disclosing sensitive investigative dossiers would constitute an…
Tony Elumelu drew a sharp line under corporate informality during a graduate trainee event in Lagos on Thursday. A young participant stood up and greeted the billionaire banker with a casual “Good morning, Tony”. The chairman of United Bank for Africa promptly rejected the greeting, telling her to use “Mr Elumelu” or his corporate initials,…
United States Representative Chris Smith has moved to block attempts to remove Nigeria from the American religious freedom blacklist. The New Jersey Republican introduced legislation to lock Nigeria onto the Country of Particular Concern roster until Washington sees concrete security reforms. The move deals an immediate diplomatic blow to Abuja’s expensive lobbying campaign in the…
National Security Adviser Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has endorsed plans for a new National Baseline Survey on illicit small arms and light weapons, arguing that Nigeria can no longer rely on figures collected a decade ago to guide its response to the proliferation of illegal firearms. Speaking through the Director of External Affairs in the…
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has paid 3.82 billion naira in pension arrears to 30,356 retirees under the Defined Benefit Scheme. The agency released the money after completing a nationwide audit of disputed calculations. Beneficiaries span parastatals, defunct agencies, and tertiary health and education departments. Senior citizens have waited years for the state to settle…
Nigeria has moved to take its long running grievance over attacks on its citizens in South Africa to the highest political table on the continent, announcing that it will join Ghana to place the matter before the next session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government. The decision, disclosed by…
President Bola Tinubu has approved yet another overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture, ordering a new committee to produce a five-year defence plan within 90 days, even as fresh data and persistent gun violence cast doubt on whether another framework can address the governance failures that previous reforms left unresolved. The directive, issued at Wednesday’s Federal…
Nigeria’s electoral umpire has, for the first time, laid out the full scale of the operation it is mounting for the 2027 general election, a deployment of roughly 1.4 million ad hoc personnel across more than 176,000 polling units, even as it flagged security threats, vote-buying and disinformation as the biggest dangers to the…
Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, went before a federal jury in Oakland, California, on Tuesday to defend claims that it deliberately built Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and misled the public about the risks, in a trial legal observers describe as one of the most consequential tests yet of Big Tech’s…
