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Tinubu extends 2025 budget implementation to Dec.31

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday signed the Appropriation (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill, 2025, into law, formally extending the implementation window of the 2025 capital budget until December 31, 2026. The announcement was made known in a statement released on Wednesday evening by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. ...

I will resign as Minister if President Tinubu loses FCT, Rivers — Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike, has declared that he will step down from his cabinet position if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu fails to secure victory in both the FCT and Rivers State in the upcoming 2027 presidential election. Speaking during an engagement with the leadership and members of the ...

Irene Agbo: Finding the woman behind the market stall in The Crown

By Flourish Joshua The market in The Crown is already alive when the audience enters it. There are traders, voices, movement, music, drums. Then the King arrives, and the ordinary business of the marketplace begins to acquire another meaning. Written and directed by Daniel Okezue and produced by Prolific Arts, the immersive theatre production was ...

Indigenous firms now account for over half of Nigeria’s crude output — Lokpobiri

The Federal Government has disclosed that indigenous oil and gas operators now account for more than 50 percent of Nigeria’s crude oil production following major divestment transactions by international oil companies. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, disclosed this on Wednesday at the maiden Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Journal ...