The planned One-on-One interview with former President Olusegun Obasanjo billed to hold on Sunday December 8, 2024 on the popular monthly interview discourse, BOILING POINT ARENA, is eliciting great interest from Nigerians and media groups across the globe. Already, four radio stations, three in Nigeria and a London-based television station are collaborating to transmit live the interview. Fresh on the deal is Eagle 7 Radio 103.7FM, Abeokuta owned by legendary footballer and entrepreneur, Dr Segun Odegbami. Eagle 7 Radio, a popular sports station with massive audience base across Ogun and Lagos States, also attracts fans who are greatly endeared to…
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Low-earning pensioners are now permitted to withdraw their total retirement savings en bloc or continue to receive their monthly pension pending the approval of the Minimum Pension Guarantee. This is according to a memo by the National Pension Commission, which was signed by the Head of the Surveillance Department of Pencom, simply identified as A.M Salem. In the memo, obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Monday and dated November 27, 2024, the commission said the development followed the new section 4.1 (g) of the revised regulation on the administration of retirement and terminal benefits in line with the new…
The National President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Festus Osifo, has confirmed that the Port Harcourt Refinery is operational, contrary to claims by critics. Speaking in an interview with Arise TV, Osifo stated that the refinery’s Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) is functional and producing various petroleum products, including Naphtha, AGO, DPK, and PMS for the use of Nigerians. While explaining that the refinery was not designed to produce aviation fuel, Osifo stated that it is producing other essential products. “For us in PENGASSAN, this is part of what we are going to address…
Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa After release from a 14-year incarceration in a Nigerian prison, a Niger Delta Activist Edmund Ebiware, has urged the relevant stakeholders, especially the Presidential Amnesty Programme to rehabilitate him back into the society. He said this will enable him to make something meaningful out of life and to contribute his quota to the development of Niger Delta and Nigeria as a nation. Saying since he regained his freedom from the prison, he has not done anything tangible with his life. Recall that Edmund Ebiware was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2010 for an offence the Nigerian Government…
Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change, Seriake Dickson (PDP, Bayelsa West), says the National Assembly will pass the tax reform bills despite opposition from different quarters. Dickson told journalists in Abuja on Monday thatthe bills would be passed like the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), stressing that heavens would not fall when they are eventually passed. On October 3, 2024, President Tinubu transmitted to the National Assembly four tax reform bills in a letter read by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajuddeen Abbas, during separate plenaries of the two chambers. The…
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has called on the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, to stop the prolonged probe of the Nigerian military. The AGF stated this on Monday in a statement in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the President on Communication and Publicity, Office of the AGF and Minister of Justice, Kamarudeen Ogundele. The statement said the AGF, in his remarks at the 23rd session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC in Hague, stated that…
The industrial action by the Nigeria Labour Congress over the non-implementation of the new national minimum wage grounded the civil service in three states and the Federal Capital Territory, with Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi threatening to replace workers in the state should they fail to return to work. Nwifuru made the threat during a live broadcast in his office at Government House, Centenary City, Abakaliki on Monday. The visibly angry governor vowed that he would not only withhold the salaries of the striking workers but also replace any of them who failed to report to office in the next…
The Peoples Democratic Party and other stakeholders on Monday called for broader consultations among relevant stakeholders to address concerns over the tax bills currently before the National Assembly for consideration and passage. The PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Abdullahi, and the Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, wondered why President Bola Tinubu was in a hurry to pass the bills. For more than two weeks, the bills have sparked widespread controversy with some northern lawmakers strongly opposed to the passage of the bills. Following approval of the Federal Executive Council in October, President Tinubu transmitted four tax reform bills…
…provides over 100% RoI as over two dozens foreign-based Nigerians move to invest in company’s products A foremost real estate firm, Pelican Valley Nigeria Ltd, has provided a 100 per cent return on investment to its members within one year of investment in the estate products. Consequently, no fewer than 24 Diaspora investors have been attracted and set to do business with Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, a development that will greatly benefit and enhance the socio-economic fortunes ofOgun State, particularly Abeokuta and its environs, where the foremost real estate company is located, a statement said. Impressed by the 100 percent…
A Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, on Monday, dismissed a lawsuit seeking the disqualification of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in the just-concluded gubernatorial election in the state. Candidate from the Peoples Democratic Party, Agboola Ajayi had approached the court to contest the qualification of Olayide Adelami, the deputy governor-elect. Ajayi, who finished a distant second runner-up in the election, argued that there were inconsistencies in the names submitted by Mr. Adelami to the Independent National Electoral Commission before the election. Through his lawyer, M. Ndoka (SAN), the PDP candidate challenged Adelami’s eligibility to run as…