Author: TheScrutinyNG

Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State Petroleum (Oil), has assured that the reforms that has been carried out in the nation’s oil and gas sector has restored confidence of investors. The former federal lawmaker noted that before the ending of the year, the Federal Government is expecting a whopping $50 billion investment coming into the oil sector as a result of the reforms. The minister hinted of a total deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector, saying it is the way to attract investment. Lokpobiri, who spoke in Abuja on Tuesday on the policy direction of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,…

The Federal Government has unveiled ‘Nutrition 77 Initiative’ to tackle nutritional challenges in all the 774 local government areas in the country. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, Stanley Nkwocha, the initiative is a comprehensive nationwide nutrition programme aimed at addressing malnutrition and food insecurity. The initiative was launched on Tuesday Vice President Kashim Shettima and it was  endorsed by the National Economic Council (NEC), wherein it seeks to improve nutritional outcomes across all 774 local government areas. It was during a roundtable with development partners…

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has said the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Inspector General of Police, IGP Egbetokun, should be held responsible for the arson current going on in Rivers State. This is as Timi Frank Al’s said the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the political unrest in Rivers is coming too late, biased and skewed in favour of a faction loyal to Wike in the state. The president had on Monday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to maintain law and order…

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the arrest of those responsible for attacks in some local government secretariats in Rivers State. The coordinated attacks are coming on the heels of Saturday’s local government election in the state where hitherto unknown APP cleared the chairmanship seats. Thus, the pro-democracy group accused the Rivers State Police Command and the Department of State Services (DSS) of negligence, alleging that their failure to act on intelligence allowed the attacks to take place. “The attackers should be treated as terrorists,” HURIWA emphasised, urging the DSS to “arrest those responsible” and…

It’s okay to hanker after the career profile of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, you had better excuse his current job, writes Shola Oyeyipo. The office of the Chief of Staff to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has suddenly acquired a larger than life aura. The powers believed to be domicile in that office are now synonymous with that of the president himself. The progression of that office, through the window of time, started in recent years. Rising from the backwaters of official obscurity, akin to the civil service rule of “being…

French authorities have ordered Omar bin Laden, a son of slain Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, to leave the country over posts on social media, France’s interior minister announced on Tuesday. Born in Saudi Arabia, where he spent his early years, Omar bin Laden, 43, has also lived in Sudan and Afghanistan. He left his father at the age of 19 and eventually settled in Normandy in northern France in 2016, taking up painting. France’s new interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, said on X (former Twitter) that Omar bin Laden had lived in the department of Orne in Normandy as…

The Federal High Court in Abuja in a suit brought before Justice Emeka Nwite has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Julius Abure as the substantive Chairman of the Labour Party. Justice Nwite on Tuesday delivered the ruling validating the Abure-led leadership of the party.  He also validated the March 2024 Nnewi convention of the Party that produced the national leadership, while issuing an order compelling the INEC to recognise the leadership.  Recall that the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) had accused the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, and…

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has raised concerns over the escalating crisis in Rivers State, urging President Bola Tinubu to intervene in resolving the dispute between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. In a statement on Tuesday by her media aide, Israel Arogbonlo, she called on the President to ensure that the minister focuses on his duties in the FCT, allowing his successor to govern Rivers State as mandated by the constitution. Akpoti-Uduaghan noted that the crisis, marked by violence, intimidation, and alleged electoral malpractices, poses a serious threat to the peace and…

Governor Siminialayi Fubara of Rivers State has said the issue between him and former Governor Nyesom Wike is about power and authority, saying there is no understanding between him and the FCT Minister that he hadn’t kept. Speaking on Politics Today, Fubara said there was no need for anybody to destroy things in the state recalling that when Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, was the Governor, Rivers was the envy of all.  He told the Minister that it was time for governance and not politics noting that he should be allowed to concentrate on governance.…

The Lagos State House of Assembly has asked suspended chairman of Alimosho Local Government Area, Jelili Sulaimon, and his lawyer, Dr. Abdul Mahmud, to recognise the place of law rather than sentiments and emotions as guiding principles of legislative practices in Lagos State. The advice by the Assembly on Tuesday was in response to the purported reaction of the duo to the suspension of the council chairman by the House on Monday at plenary. The House, in the reaction signed by Hon. Stephen Ogundipe, chairman, Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, further advised Jelili against ascribing self-made meanings to the…