NUPRC Wins SERVICOM 2024 Best Performing Parastatal Award

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has achieved significant recognition at the 2024 SERVICOM MDAs’ Awards held in Abuja on Tuesday. The Commission secured the 2024 Overall Best Performing Parastatal SERVICOM Unit (PSU) Award, along with the 2024 Best Performing PSU, Team B Award. Chief executive of NUPRC Gbenga Komolafe, was also honoured with a Recognition Award for his commitment to citizen-centered service delivery. In addition to these awards, Ann Ihuoma Dozie-Enukora from the NUPRC SERVICOM Unit received both the 2024 Overall Best Performing Nodal Officer and the 2024…

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Food Inflation Hits 40% Despite Nigeria $3.3bn Agric Loan

ADEOLA YUSUF

Despite securing multilateral loans amounting to $3.334bn (N5.178tn) and attracting over $4.3bn investments to boost food production, the cost of essential staple food items skyrocketed by 60.88 per cent under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, The PUNCH reports. When Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, food inflation was 24.82 per cent. It jumped to about 40 per cent in November 2024. This is based on data from the National Bureau of Statistics. This is occurring as Nigerians are increasingly struggling to afford basic food items, with many households finding…

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Govt Officials, Contractors To Fly Only Nigerian Airlines – Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says the Fly Nigeria Act will transform into law under his watch. The minister lamented that the document, which is expected to make it mandatory for government-financed air transportation of government personnel, contractors, grantees, and properties to be carried by Nigeria Air Flag Carriers, has yet to materialise more than 15 years after it was first proposed. Speaking at a one-day “Stakeholders’ Engagement on the Legal Framework for the Fly Nigeria Bill and Related Enabling Legislation’, in Abuja, Keyamo said he…

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Police, Military Worst Enemies Of Media In Nigeria – MRA

ADEOLA YUSUF

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) says security agencies, including the police, military and intelligence services, have consistently been the worst enemies of the media in Nigeria in recent years, accusing them of being responsible for the highest number of attacks against journalists in 2024. MRA stated this in its annual state of media freedom report for 2024 released on Tuesday. In the 137-page report, titled ‘Media Freedom Under Threat: The State of Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety in Nigeria 2024’, MRA noted that out of a total of 64 attacks against…

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Why Are Yoruba Always The ‘Problem’ Of Nigeria?, By BOLA BOLAWOLE

ADEOLA YUSUF

“And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house…” 1 Kings 18: 17 – 18). There are occasions when a writer sets out to write one thing but ends up writing another. For me, this is one of such occasions! I have had many in the past, though! This time around, I set out to write on Kemi Badenoch’s differentiation between her being a Nigerian…

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‘No Dollar, No Pound,’ Senate To Ban Use Of Foreign Currencies In Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

The bill seeking to prohibit the use of foreign currency in Nigeria has scaled first reading in the House of Senate. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007, No. 7, to Prohibit the Use of Foreign Currencies for Remuneration and Other Related Matters,” was sponsored by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Reparations and Repatriation, Senator Ned Nwoko. The proposed legislation is aimed at ensuring all payments including salaries and other transactions are done using the local currency, naira.…

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N138.61bn Nigeria’s Tractor Assembly Plant Deal Under Probe

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Reps Uncover 2000 Tractors, 100 Harvesters’ Racket     The House of Representatives has mandated its committee on agricultural production and services to investigate the non-delivery of 2000 units of tractors and 100 combined units of harvesters under the presidential food security initiative and hope agricultural mechanisation drive, despite the signing of a N3 billion agreement. It also mandated the committee to investigate the N138.61 billion agreement signed by the Federal Government and the AFTRADE DMCC for the establishment of a tractor assembly plant in Nigeria. The resolution followed…

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‘We’re Dying,’ MTN, Glo, Others Demand More Govt Actions To Salvage Sector

ADEOLA YUSUF

Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, has expressed sadness over the condition of telecommunication operators in the country and has called on the government to ensure the most critical aspects are addressed urgently. ATCON listed some of the intractable issues to include multiple taxation, right-of-way (RoW) bottlenecks, and infrastructure vandalism, saying they are seriously hampering the sector’s growth. The association, at its 31st-anniversary dinner held in Lagos, weekend, expressed concerns that the issues have remained persistent for too long while the country moves on like the effects are not…

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How Pope Escaped Two Assassination Attempts In Iraq

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Pontiff’s autobiographer gives dirty details       Pope Francis escaped two assassination attempts on his life during his historic trip to Iraq in March 2021. This revelation was part of excerpts from his forthcoming autobiography published Tuesday by Italian media. The pontiff’s Vatican security detail received an urgent warning from the British secret services, Francis wrote. A woman packed with explosives, a young suicide bomber, was heading towards Mosul to blow herself up during the papal visit,” he wrote in “Hope”. It will go on sale in over…

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ONE LIFT IN HIS CAR, 15 STORY IDEAS; ELEMURE FOR AYO OJO AT 50!

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘You probably have not worked with his kind of editor,’  Adeola Yusuf pens revealing and emotional tribute for the third editor of New Telegraph newspaper, Ayodele Ojo, on his golden jubilee.   He was an ‘almighty’ editor of a national daily, he had that rare privilege to impact or make life miserable for those behind him. Today, ‘many many’ years after those days, he is, whether he likes it or not, somewhere in the world, reading different stories from those he presided over. Call it a payback day, and you…

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