Nigerians are shocked by the claim that Dangote Refinery and other startup modular refiners produce substandard products compared to their international counterparts. This controversial allegation came from no other than the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulation Authority, NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, on July 18, 2024. According to him: “Dangote refinery as […]

All appears set for the August 1, 2024 nationwide protest over hunger and hardship, which has been brewing for over one year. Nigerians were still recovering from the “no-money, no-fuel and no-food” economic crisis foisted on them by the expiring President Muhammadu Buhari regime in pursuit of a pointless “naira redesign policy” last year. His […]

The United States of America, USA, and by extension the world was saved a major disaster on Saturday, July 13, 2024 when former President, Donald Trump, narrowly survived an assassination attempt by a 20-year-old Thomas Crooks at a Republican Party rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. While he addressed his supporters, several shots rang out. One of […]

If all was well, Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train, 650,000 bpd capacity oil refinery, would have reached its peak production by now, and our fuel energy challenges might have considerably eased off. Though it was officially commissioned on May 22, 2023, seven days to the end of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime, the $20 […]

Labour must also turn their attention to ensuring that workers at the sub-national levels and the private sector also key into the new national minimum wage when it becomes law