The Chairman, Board, management and entire staff of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria have commended President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima for their recent directive to reduce the cost of the 2026 Hajj, describing the gesture as a thoughtful and timely move that brings great ...
Read More »Ogun seals energy deal with Chinese investors
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has announced a new partnership with Chinese investors aimed at strengthening the state’s energy infrastructure and industrial capacity. In a statement shared on X on Saturday, according to the governor, discussions with the Jiangsu-based company Cteec focused on funding availability, technical capacity, ...
Read More »Fire guts Oyo solar firm
A blaze has ravaged a Solar and Electrical Company in the Iwo Road Area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. The incident was said to have occurred on Thursday. PUNCH Online learnt that the fire destroyed the Training Office of Sun Watt’s Solar and Electrical Company located ...
Read More »Lagos defends Trade Fair demolition, denies ethnic targeting
The Lagos State Government has defended the ongoing demolition of illegal structures at the Trade Fair Complex in Ojo, insisting that the exercise is a technical enforcement of planning laws and not targeted at any ethnic group. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olumide Oluyinka, made ...
Read More »No agreement signed with Dangote Refinery, strike may resume – PENGASSAN
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has clarified that it did not sign the communiqué that ended its nationwide strike against the Dangote refinery. The union suspended its strike, which began on Sunday, on Wednesday after the intervention of the Federal Government, but ...
Read More »Dangote to redeploy disengaged workers, says FG
The Federal Government has said the Dangote Group will redeploy staff earlier disengaged from its refinery operations, following the resolution of its dispute with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria. The FG also announced that the redeployed staff will not suffer any loss ...
Read More »FG announces end of PENGASSAN, Dangote rift
The Federal Government has brokered peace in the face-off between the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, after two days of conciliation meetings. A statement issued in the early hours of Wednesday by the Minister of Labour and Employment, ...
Read More »ECOWAS parliament adopts $26m 2026 budget
The ECOWAS Parliament has adopted a budget of 19,636,030 Units of Account (26 million dollars) for the 2026 fiscal year, and announced plans to commemorate its 25th anniversary in November. The Speaker of the Parliament, Hadjia Memounatou Ibrahima, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. ...
Read More »Income earned by ‘runs girls’ taxable – Taiwo Oyedele
The Federal Government has said that all income earned in Nigeria, including money made by ‘runs girls,’ is taxable under the law. Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, stated this in a now-viral video from a tax education session by ...
Read More »PENGASSAN, Dangote reconciliation meeting continues today
The reconciliation meeting championed by the Federal Ministry of Labour, Employment and Productivity, which is aimed at resolving the rift between the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association and the Management of Dangote Petroleum refinery, will continue Today by 2 pm, according to a notice by the ...
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