President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate preparation of a comprehensive National Threat Assessment and a five-year Strategic Defence Operations Plan to strengthen coordination among Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security agencies. The President gave the directive on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja. Under the directive, Special Adviser to …
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has called for greater investment in technical and vocational education, saying the state needs skilled manpower capable of driving economic growth. Fubara spoke on Wednesday while commissioning three projects at the Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Rumuola, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The projects are the Entrepreneurship and …
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has projected that Nigeria’s inflation will remain elevated in the second half of 2026, averaging 15.5 percent for the period and the full year. The projection is contained in the NESG’s 2026 outlook report, titled “Turning Potential into Progress.” According to the group, persistent insecurity in major farming communities, …
President Bola Tinubu has approved seven road projects and a trailer park concession valued at more than N438 billion across several states. The Minister of State for Works, Bello Goronyo, disclosed this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The approved projects cover Ekiti, Ogun, …
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has invited Dele Oye, principal partner of Dele Oye & Associates, to moderate a session on corporate governance and foreign investment at its 66th Annual General Conference. The conference, themed “Beyond Limits,” is scheduled to hold from August 21 to 28, 2026, at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Elekehia, Port Harcourt, …
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) latest changes to Open Market Operations (OMO) and repurchase transactions may be doing more than simply improving access to the fixed-income market. The review could give the apex bank a more flexible liquidity-management toolkit ahead of a period when global economic risks and Nigeria’s 2027 election cycle could put …
A new executive order signed by President Bola Tinubu is set to unlock an additional one million barrels per day (mbpd) of crude oil and condensate from Nigeria’s deep offshore fields, alongside $50 billion in investments, according to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). Engineer Enorense Amadasu, NUPRC’s Executive Commissioner for Development and Production, …
Pinnacle Daily Editor Mr Sunday Michael Ogwu was attacked on Wednesday evening by police officers from the Lugbe Division in Abuja. Narrating his ordeal to a Pinnacle Daily reporter, Mr Ogwu said he was coming back from exercise after returning from the day’s work and stumbled on a demolition exercise being carried out by Lugbe …
Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has blamed the defeat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the August 15 Osun governorship election on the activities of “Abuja politicians” who he said descended on the state shortly before the poll. Sule spoke on Tuesday during a press briefing in Lafia, where he stressed the importance of …
Former Bayelsa East Senator and founder of Silverbird Group, Ben Murray-Bruce, has urged President Bola Tinubu to bring more “mad men” into his administration to confront Nigeria’s longstanding economic and petroleum-sector challenges. Murray-Bruce, who described himself as a supporter of the administration, said support for the government should not amount to sycophancy, stressing that a …
