Tag: fuel subsidy
Adeosun: No more fuel subsidy payment to marketers
Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says no more payment of fuel subsidy to marketers as the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) bears the...
Protesters in Abuja
No to fuel price hike: Some protesters in Abuja...on Wednesday.
N145 per litre: Why strike must go on, by Wabba
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has given reasons for workers' strike against the N145 per litre of petrol introduced by...
Court order or no order, we’ll go ahead with strike, says Labour
Despite a court order, organised labour has vowed to go ahead with its strike action on Wednesday over the increment of the price of...
Subsidy removal positive for oil, banking sector as NSE market indices record 0.91% growth
Major oil companies on Thursday on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) reacted positively to the Federal Government's removal of subsidy and increase in petroleum...
Kachikwu: Subsidy removal will sustain supply, reduce suffering
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said the new pump price of N145 for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) would help to...
Kalu backs Buhari on subsidy removal
Former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for removing the subsidy on fuel.
He declared that the subsidy...
RMAFC backs removal of fuel subsidy, says it’s a major fiscal and financial burden
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has urged the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy because it had become a burden on...
TUC: Fuel subsidy, a good idea abused
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has condemned the push for the removal of subsidy by the national leader of the All...
Subsidy gets 88 per cent of N465bn supplementary budget
The Senate on Wednesday received request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the approval of N465.64 billion Supplementary Budget for government activities in remaining part...
EDUCATION
West African students honour Ugwuanyi
Students of the West African sub-region under the auspices of the West Africa Students’ Union (WASU), at the weekend, honoured Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State with "The Chief Custodian of WASU in Nigeria" award.
Presenting the award to Ugwuanyi at the...
ASUU extends strike by another month
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its roll-over strike by another four weeks to give government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
The President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday.
Osodeke said...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo to establish South-East University
The Ohanaeze Council of Elders says it is exploring the possibility of establishing a South-East University that will specialise in engineering, medicine, science, technology and skill acquisition.
This is contained in a communique issued by the council at the end of an inaugural meeting of...
