Author: TheScrutinyNG

By Bayo Onanuga One year after being in the saddle, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be first person to admit that the ride has been bumpy. He is also the first to say he is unfazed by the turbulence as he remains focused on the marathon of the next three years. The past year has been months of baby steps, months of laying the foundations for the next three years of canter. As Nigeria’s 16th President, Tinubu during his campaign for the office said he would make difficult decisions and that running the country would not be business as usual.…

The Lagos State Government has discontinued the 25 percent discount on state-owned transport services, ending 10 months programme designed to mitigate impact of the fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu. It said that fares on the state-owned public transport buses, ferries, and train will return to 100 percent fares on Monday, 3rd June 2024. The plan was made public on Saturday in a statement released by the government through Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) official social media handle. According to the statement, “The 25% fare rebate on regulated public transport buses, ferries, and train services ends on Sunday,…

The Branch Controller (Ekiti), West Africa Examinations Council, Mrs T.A.Y. Lawson has said that the nationwide strike scheduled to begin on Monday will not disrupt examinations in the state – and nationwide alike. She alerted Principals and school heads in Ekiti State in a letter titled, “Notice of Commencement of Indefinite Strike by NLC and TUC” with reference number EK/BC/SC/EXAM/07/Vol.1/89 late Friday. The letter read, “The attention of Management has been drawn to a notice of the Commencement of Indefinite Strike by NLC and TUC effective, Monday, 3rd June 2024. “Please be formally informed that the conduct of WASSCE SC…

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has directed its members to comply with the directive of the two labour centres to begin an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday. Its General Secretary, Mr Afolabi Olawale, in a statement on Saturday, said the union was committed to ensuring total compliance with the directive. Recall that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) declared an indefinite nationwide strike to begin on Monday, to express their grievances over the proposed new minimum wage. In a joint statement signed by NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero and…

Zenith Bank Plc has appointed Dame (Dr.) Adaora Umeoji, OON, as its new Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer effective June 1, 2024. She becomes the first female to hold this position since the bank’s inception, following the end of Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu’s successful five-year term on May 31, 2024. Zenith Bank in a statement said her appointment aligns with the bank’s tradition of internal leadership development. Dr. Umeoji has served as the Deputy Managing Director of Zenith Bank since October 2016, bringing nearly 30 years of banking experience, with 26 of those years at Zenith Bank. She is an alumnus…

The quest of Ogun State to be an oil producing State would soon materialize as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), is set to begin oil and gas exploration in the Gateway State. Stakeholders in the oil industry,  including the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, Managing Director, SHELL Petroleum Development Company Ltd, Mr. Osagie Okubor; Chief Executive, Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe and the Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPC Ltd, Mr Mele Kyari, stormed Ogun State yesterday on plans by the Federal Government to start oil exploration in the state. They were…

Marian Robinson, the mother of former US First Lady Michelle Obama, has died at 86. In a statement, her family said that Robinson had died “peacefully” on Friday morning. Robinson was a well-known fixture at the White House during the eight years of Barack Obama’s administration between 2009-17. She spent much of that time taking care of her two granddaughters, Malia and Sasha, daughters to Michelle and Barack Obama. In a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, Mrs Obama called her mother her “rock, always there for whatever I needed”. “She was the same steady backstop for our entire family,…

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Akintunde Sawyerr, has disclosed the fund’s plan for students to repay back the loan. Sawyer, while speaking on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, explained that students who take loans from the fund are expected to report to NELFUND two years after completion of their mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). According to him, the law guiding the operation of the fund gives the two-year post-NYSC window for reporting. He said, “So, it’s a loan. There’s certainly an expectation to pay back. The law requires the actual reporting…

President Bola Tinubu yesterday inaugurated an All-One Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Reverse-Engineering, Training, Filling, and Conversion Centre in Abuja. The centre was established by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) in collaboration with Portland Gas Limited. The agency took time to explain how much cheaper the gas is in relation to the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). The president was represented on the occasion by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. A statement from the agency to The Nation, said the Chief Executive Officer of Portland Gas Limited, Mr. Folajimi Mohammed said: “On average, a petrol vehicle consumes about 60…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday declared an indefinite strike effective Monday, June 2 after the latest negotiation with the federal government on the new minimum wage and the recent hike of electricity tariff ended in a deadlock. Organised labour rejected the N60,000 which government and the private sector said was the best they could offer under the circumstance. The amount was the same tabled during the resumed negotiation on Tuesday. Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, Presidents of NLC and TUC respectively, told reporters that the strike would commence at midnight of June 2,…