The Integrated Resources Limited, IRL, a leading metering company, weekend, disclosed that it has provided prepaid meters to over 33,000 customers in Lagos, Ibadan and Kaduna since its inception. The company said while it has fully installed over 30,000 meters in Ibadan and Kaduna, over 3,000 customers were provided with meters in Lagos, adding that a few customers, who have not yet been metered for one reason or another in Lagos would be metered as their issues were being resolved. Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Resources Management Limited, Durosola Omogbenigun, who disclosed this in a statement, stated: “IRL has metered over

  Federal Government is set for the deployment of 12 Super Tucano jets against bandits as part of concerted efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to end terrorism before 2023. As a prelude to the deployment, government has also started perfecting the conditions for the release of a gazette, which will legally classify bandits as terrorists. Already, the government has secured a court order declaring bandits as terrorists. But, the United States (U.S.) has not given a blank cheque to Nigeria on the use of the fighter jets. The U.S. has floated a monthly schedule to monitor the deployment of the jets,

LAGOS — Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has  stoked controversy with  his latest claim that had President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, it would have precipitated crisis in the country. Malami’s remarks drew the ire of leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Middle Belt Forum, MBF, immediate past Secretary-General of Arewa Consultative Forum,  ACF, Joint Action Committee of Northern Youth Association, JACNYA, among others. Malami, who featured on a Radio Kano programme on Sunday, said that President Buhari signing into law the Electoral Amendment Bill, would

By Sola Ogundipe Oxfam, a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice, has restated its call on the Federal government to reject the counsel of the International Monetary Fund,  IMF, that West African countries should introduce austerity measures as a way to debt recovery. The Country Director Oxfam International, Dr Vincent Ahonsi, who made the call, said austerity measures as being advocated for by the IMF has the potential to further worsen current inequality and poverty. Ahonsi, who spoke  recently in Delta State at the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021,

THE leadership of Ayamasa Federated Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has berated the people of Tuomo Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta, following the latter’s protests and threats to shutdown the Tuomo Location A and B oil wells operated by the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, insisting that they have no basis to issue threats as they are not the landowners. The Paramount Ruler of Ayamasa Community, HRH (Amananaowei), Chief Moses Oyaseye and the Chairman of Federated Ayamasa Community, Mr. Bomiegha Okoyi, while reacting to protest by Tuomo community on NAOC- operated oil wells

The Anglican Province of Owerri, Imo State, says it will engage the police to find out why it desecrated the church while enforcing the arrest of Uche Nwosu at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Eziama Obieri in the Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state on Sunday during a thanksgiving service. The church said that while it supports the arrest of individuals who committed crimes no matter how highly placed they are, the invasion of a church of worship by security operatives while service was ongoing was unacceptable. Nwosu, who is the son-in-law of former Governor Rochas Okorocha, was arrested by

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied claims that he hated people of Niger Delta origin. He said this in an open letter to respond to accusations by the Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ijaw National Congress, Chief Edwin Clark. Clark had on Wednesday slammed Obasanjo over what he called a disappointing display of hatred against the people of the oil-producing states in Nigeria. The elder statesman reacted to a recent outburst by the former President in Abuja, where he attacked the National Secretary of the INC, Ebipamowei Wodu, at a peace

The Federal Government hopes to push its public debt stock to N50.22tn by 2023, with domestic debt at N28.75tn and external debt at N21.47tn. This is according to the projections in the National Development Plan 2021-2025. The Debt Management Office had disclosed that Nigeria’s public debt was N38tn as of the end of the third quarter of 2021, with the total debt stock rising by N2.540tn in three months from July to September 2021. This shows that the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),  plans to accumulate about N12tn debt in two years from 2021 to 2023.