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Nigeria’s economy expanded at a faster pace in the second quarter of this year, with real gross domestic product (GDP) growing by 4.43 per cent year-on-year. However, the underlying performance of the economy’s major sectors points to a slowdown in industrial activity despite stronger growth in agriculture and services. Data released on Monday by the …

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Former Bayelsa State Governor and ex-Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing the party and the Bola Tinubu administration of abandoning the principles on which the party was founded. Sylva announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the APC chairman in Ward …

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Terrorist faction collected 90% of ransom paid nationwide from just eight cases as 7,825 Nigerians were abducted in one year   A single faction of Boko Haram collected about ₦7 billion, roughly 90 per cent of all ransom paid in Nigeria in one year, from just eight kidnapping incidents, exposing a dramatic transformation in the …

How Boko Haram captured Nigeria’s ₦7.8bn kidnap economy

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) have clashed over the alleged replacement of the party’s candidates for the 2027 State House of Assembly elections, with the opposition party accusing the electoral body of uploading names it did not nominate. The NDC alleged that several names published by INEC, particularly …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the deadline for candidates offered admission from 2021 to date to either accept or reject their outstanding admission offers. The Board moved the deadline from Monday, August 31 to Wednesday, September 30, 2026, giving affected candidates an additional month to regularise their admission status. JAMB said …

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has revealed that the mandatory 3% Operating Expenditure (OPEX) contribution by oil and gas companies to Host Communities Development Trusts (HCDTs) is yielding significant dividends—enhancing both peace and crude oil production across oil-producing areas. Speaking during a meeting with the leadership of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal …

NUPRC: Nigeria can Now Produce above 2mbpd of Crude, Denies Report On N8.41trn Oil Theft

The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) reversed the previous week’s bearish trend, with the All-Share Index (ASI) rising 0.81 per cent to 241,298.47 points as gains in banking, oil and gas and commodity stocks lifted the market. The market capitalisation also increased by 0.84 per cent to ₦155.826 trillion during the four-day trading week ended Friday, August …

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