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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that Nigeria's oil and gas industry will now receive a breath of fresh air and allow investments and transparency to flourish with the coming into being of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021. The speaker reacted on Monday after President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the Petroleum Industry Bill, which has become an Act of the National Assembly. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Lanre Lasisi, in Abuja, Gbajabiamila noted that the coming into being of the law was a victory for Nigerians and…

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2021 into law. In statement issued by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari assented to the bill on Monday in his determination to fulfill his constitutional duty. The passage of the PIB has proved to be a real nightmare for successive administrations since the need for the bill was first mooted by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. In 2018, after the national assembly passed a harmonised version of the bill — the petroleum industry governance bill (PIGB), President Muhammadu Buhari refused assent due to “legal and constitutional reasons”. The PIB…

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has written to the United States Embassy in Nigeria, demanding fairness for Nigeria's disgraced police chief, Abba Kyari, who was indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Kyari is being accused of having collected bribes from suspected billionaire fraudster, Abbas Ramon, also known as Hushpuppi. A four-man panel, headed by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), Joseph Egbunike, has launched an investigation into the allegations levelled against the cop. However, the Northern groups in a letter sent to the American Embassy in Abuja, said…

Social crusader, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor has described the claims of Apostle Johnson Suleiman to manifest money from angels to his members as the worst kind of mockery against God and the Christian church. Eholor spoke to journalists on the telephone, while responding to the arrest of a young man who made a YouTube video to challenge the prophet over the claims. In the said video, Apostle Suleiman is seen in a church in Atlanta Georgia, in the United States, saying that angels whispered to him that they want to credit people’s accounts with money. He then started praying, asking…

Senator representing Abia North, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has felicitated with Mr. Ifeanyi Okali, director of ABN TV, a leading online medium in Nigeria and his wife, Oluchi Okali as the couple marks the 9th anniversary of their wedding. Sen. Kalu a former governor of Abia and the current Senate Chief Whip in a congratulatory message on Wednesday said the couple has come this far in their union because of their ability to understand each other's peculiar weakness and strength. He said the union is strongly rooted in love and deep understanding, urging younger couples to take a cue from…

The Federal Government has hinted that the over two months ban on the social networking site, Twitter, in Nigeria will be lifted soon. This is as it said that it has reached agreement with Twitter in most areas of misunderstanding. Recall that on June 5, 2021, the FG had officially banned Twitter’s indefinitely, thereby restricting it from operating in Nigeria after the social media platform deleted tweets made by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) warning the Indigenous People of Biafra that they “will be treated in the language they understand”. The FG had interpreted the deletion of Buhari’s…

The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria, The Republic of Indonesia Embassy, 4 Salt, Star Lake Street, Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria. Dear Ambassador, DEMAND FOR JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS IN HANDLING CASE OF MANHANDLING AGAINST NIGERIA'S AMBASSADOR BY YOUR IMMIGRATION We are ONE LOVE FOUNDATION, a global human rights defense organization whose main goal is to protect the rights of all human, defend them when wronged, and provide their basic needs where necessary. We are also advocates of equity and justice, and uphold the rights of people, irrespective of their racial, religious, sexual or moral background. It is on this note that we were…