Day: July 13, 2021

BREAKING: Nigeria raked in $34.28b Oil, Gas revenues in 2019, NEITI reveals

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Here is an executive summary of the latest audit report by NEITI + how NNPC, IOCs, NDDC, NCDMB, and Federal ministry of Finance (FMF) were mentioned in the report     The Nigerian government raked in $34.28 billion from oil and gas sector in 2019. Platforms  Africa reportsi that the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency (NEITI), which showed this in its 2019 audit report presented to the media and civil Society organisations (CSO) in Lagos on Tuesday, declared that a whopping $8.487 billion of the total receipt came from the sales…

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Nigerian Senate Rejects Buhari’s ex-aide Onochie As INEC Commissioner

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Nigerian Senate has rejected presidential media aide, Lauretta Onochie, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Platforms Africa reports that Onochie, a former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, has been immersed in a serious controversy on her membership of the ruling Alla Progressives Congress (APC). The upper legislative chamber rejected her appointment after Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the INEC committee, presented a report in plenary. She was nominated for the job by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2020.   READ ALSO: House, DPR on…

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