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Swiss close to revealing Nigerian beneficiaries of $1.1b Malabu oil bribes
Materials in a suitcase seized nearly three years ago by Swiss authorities may unlock the identities of the Nigerian recipients of the $1.1billion in corrupt payments by Shell and ENI over the purchase of OPL 245 from Malabu Oil.
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Financial flow from oil, gas sector drops to $17.05 in 2016 – NEITI
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) says that total financial flows from Nigeria’s oil and gas sector reduced to 17.05 billion dollars in 2016, indicating a 31 per cent decline on the 24.79 billion dollars…
South Korea supports 125,000 Boko Haram victims with N180m
The Government of Republic of Korea has provided food items for 125,000 victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east to last them at least a month.
The food assistance, a donation through the United Nations World Food Programme…
New trade zones will attract $15b FDIs – NEPZA
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) says the four trade zones recently established in the country will attract 15 billion dollars worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the nation’s economy.
Mr Emmanuel Jime,…
Bauchi Govt. presents N196.72bn budget for 2019
Gov. Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State on Thursday presented N196.72 billion budget for the 2019 fiscal year to the state’s House of Assembly.
Abubakar, while presenting the appropriation bill tagged “budget of Continuity”, said that…
Boko Haram: A Northern ploy gone awry (III)
In the second part of the article, I argued that Boko Haram terrorism enjoys nothing except to kill, maim and destroy especially if such relate to western education, just the way of the evil one. That is why international and…