Tag: fuel subsidy

One of the first things that was cited as evidence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu showing courage and wisdom and ...

The Kwara TUC Chairman, Joseph Tunde Meshach, says engagement and dialogue are the best options to resolve the issues.

...how would ordinary Nigerians survive the pangs that the removal is coming with? They have been appealing for the implementation ...

Fuel queues returned to Nigerian cities last week Monday as motorists scrambled to get petroleum products hours after President Bola ...

...the political elites want to get us from “paying bogus subsidy claims is bad” to “subsidising petrol is bad.”... Once we ...

"The TUC that attended today’s meeting presented a list of demands and those demands we have studied and we are ...

Thread of deception: Nigeria's subsidy burden What if we built more refineries a vision we hold dear to accommodate our ...

"Accordingly, CWC directs all State Councils of the Union to mobilise members to withdraw their services and commence protests nationwide ...

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and civil society are, I believe, ready for the fight. This time, however, I would ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Petrol subsidy is gone, means petrol subsidy is gone. Anything short of saying so on day ...

"This is an ambush and runs against the spirit and principles of social dialogue...," the labour union said.

Since the administration began in 2015, the Nigerian Government has missed its revenue targets, amid high interest rates and runaway ...

"So, we need to end the subsidy," one of the guest speakers said.

“Council agreed that the timing of the removal of fuel subsidy should not be now,” an official said.

Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed ...if they diligently distribute every dime of the $800 million at the exchange rate ...

An official noted that functional local refineries will not only make fuel affordable but create jobs for Nigerians.

"In June 2023, we should be able to exit," an official said.

The report says while FG’s expenditure rose by 179% from N4.48 trillion in 2011 to N12.51 trillion in 2021, its ...

The minister of state for petroleum says increased prices implemented in the last two weeks were "probably from the marketers".

It is difficult to understand his position, except in the sense of “alternative facts”, a phrase coined by Kellyanne Conway ...

The president says his government will not scrap fuel subsidy soon as current realities make it impossible to do so.

EFCC chair, Mr Bawa, testified as a prosecution witness in the trial of Abubakar Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy ...

The bank's chief says Nigeria also faces trade barriers that continue to distort trade and capital flows.

...we need a multidisciplinary, multisectoral approach to tackle this problem. We need to just start. Start fixing our education to ...

The finance minister said only N443 billion is presently available in the 2022 Budget for subsidy from January to June.