All posts by David Abellegah

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  Petrol Shortage Worsens, Prices Skyrocket, and Queues Emerge, Few Hours before Christmas

  Lagos is the most hit, long queues characterized the few filling stations with the product. With many filling stations not having the product to sell, transporters, motorists and other consumers waited on Sunday at filling stations with hope and...

  • Posted December 24, 2012
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  Ministry Workers Protest Over Non-Payment of Salaries

  The junior staffs of the ministry of Science and Technology has protested over non-payment of salaries since January. The workers expressed their grievances after the ministry refused to take them along while taking decisions about their welfare....

  • Posted December 24, 2012
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  NERC Says It Failed In Electricity Metering Scheme

  Licensed electricity companies are likely to get an independent director who will be the watchdog of the board while NERC has confessed the failure of the metering system. This development was disclosed by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory...

  • Posted December 21, 2012
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  Export Expansion Grant (EEG) Programme Expends N257 billion Over Seven Years

  Minister of State for Finance, Dr Yerima Ngama yesterday said the Federal Government has spent N257.09 billion under its Export Expansion Grant (EEG) programme in the preceding seven years. The Minister made this declaration when he addressed...

  • Posted December 21, 2012
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  Ex-Gov Audu of Kogi State Declared wanted by EFCC over N4bn Fraud

  Last Tuesday the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) attempted to bring in former Kogi State Governor Abubakar Audu for questioning over alleged N4bn fraud. The attempt failed, according to EFCC spokesperson, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren “he fled...

  • Posted December 21, 2012
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  Senate Gives up Pension funds probe, Leaves Maina to God

  The Senate committee probing the management of pension funds, the same committee that ordered the arrest of Maina said they will leave him to God. The committee adjourned its sitting until further notice. According to the Chairman...

  • Posted December 20, 2012
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  Five Governors Accused of N7 trillion Embezzlement from Derivation Fund

  Five state governors have been accused by oil producing communities for embezzling N7.282 trillion. The communities alleged that for the past 13 years the Governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Edo, Bayelsa, and Ondo received the amount as...

  • Posted December 20, 2012
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  DISCOs Need N170bn to Provide Adequate Meters

  About 2.8 million customers still do not have meters, six months earlier NERC ordered electricity distribution companies to provide meters to all consumers within 18 months. Research has shown that the sum of N170bn will be needed...

  • Posted December 20, 2012
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  Ijeododo Pipeline Explosion: Vandals Combat Rescuers

  The pipeline explosion at Ijeododo in Iba Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos State has continued to burn as fire fighters are confronted with natural and manmade setbacks. Fire fighters are finding it difficult to calm the...

  • Posted December 19, 2012
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  Lawmakers Demand Proof for NNPC’s N48bn Excess Expenditure

  The N48bn excess expenditure by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in its 2012 operations has raised a lot of dust in the National Assembly. The National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) yesterday queried the development...

  • Posted December 19, 2012
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