Author: TheScrutinyNG

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,…

Friday’s talks on minimum wage between the Federal Government and Organised Labour hit a brick wall when the government failed to shift grounds on the N60,000 it proposed during the last meeting. With this latest move, the organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress may embark on a nationwide strike. Recall that the NLC and TUC had given a May 31, 2024 ultimatum on the new minimum wage. As of the time of filing this report, an emergency press briefing has been called by labour. On Tuesday, talks between the Federal Government and organised Labour…

The Military High Command has promised to bring overwhelming military pressure on the proscribed Independent Peoples of Biafra over the killing of five soldiers at a checkpoint at Aba in Abia State on Wednesday. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Buba said the military would be fierce in its response to the dastard act and would bring overwhelming military pressure on the group to ensure their total defeat. He said the troops of Operation UDO KA deployed at Obikabia Junction Checkpoint in Obingwa Local Government Areas adjourning…

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said politics must always be about bettering the lives of the people, noting that his government plays a politics centred on serving the people and putting the State on the path of accelerated growth and prosperity. Obaseki reassured that his government will not share or give treasury looters access to Edo people’s money but will continue to channel the State’s resources in developing the State and bettering the lives of the people. The governor spoke at a homecoming reception in honour of the victorious Edo Queens Football Club who were recently crowned the 2023/2024…

Scores of female protesters stormed the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja on Friday to demand the resignation of the National Women Leader, Dr Mary Alile-Idele. Alile-Idele was accused of negligence, pursuit of personal interests, and alleged diversion of some parts of the 24,000 wrappers donated by the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, and her delegation when they visited the party secretariat. Singing solidarity songs and displaying several banners that read, ‘Enough is Enough!’ ‘Mary Alile Resign Now’ and ‘APC Women Leader Must Go,’ the aggrieved women appealed to the First Lady and the National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje,…

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has dismissed warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that allowing Kyiv to use Western weapons for strikes inside Russian territory might lead to an escalation. Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in the Czech capital Prague, Stoltenberg said the alliance had heard such warnings many times before. “This is nothing new. It has (…) been the case for a long time that every time NATO allies are providing support to Ukraine, President Putin is trying to threaten us to not do that,” he told reporters on Friday. “And an escalation – well,…