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Presidency, Atiku bicker over subsidy removal

ABUJA---Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared that no amount of resistance from President Bola Tinubu or “millions of his gang of economic jesters” could stop him from restoring a targeted fuel subsidy to Nigerians, accusing the administration of dressing up subsidy removal as reform while quietly extending fiscal concessions to oil investors.
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‘Deregulation is an economic evil’

Chief Martin Onovo, a petroleum engineer and national leader of the Strategic Union of Professionals for the Advancement of Nigeria, SUPA, argues, in this interview, that planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry would cause more hardship to Nigerians.

Tension in the Police Force

This followed revelations that most of the serving DIG’s and senior AIG’s have secretly expressed their willingness to continue in office if given the green light regardless of seniority in the force. Saturday Vanguard learnt reliably that, intense lobbying had already commenced amongst the hierarchy of the police force over their continuity in office.

Doctors protest adoption of colleague by gun-men

FOLLOWING the abduction of the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu Benin City, Dr (Mrs) Olabisi Ihenyen and her husband, Dr Lionel Ihenyen, by suspected kidnappers Thursday evening, doctors in Edo State have have gone on strike in protest over their abduction.

New moves to jettison ASYCUDA, says report

By Emma Ujah, Abuja THERE is a fresh move to jettison the multi-billion Naira Automated Systems for Customs Data, ASYCUDA, which is a computerized clearing process for effective service delivery at the nation’s ports. It is being championed by a committee under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Transport charged with the responsibility of […]

Lagos govt set to toll more roads

The Lagos State Government is discussing with some private investors on the possibility of concessioning more roads to facilitate infrastructural development.
Mr Ganiyu Johnson, Special Adviser to Gov. Babatunde Fashola on Works and Infrastructure, said that the investors were expected to recoup their money through tolls on the roads.

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