New Service Chiefs Get Senate Confirmation, Vow Reforms to Tackle Insecurity, Boost Troops’ Welfare NASS okays Tinubu’s request for new external borrowing to finance 2025 budget deficit, refinance maturing Eurobonds
Sunday Aborisade and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
Senate yesterday confirmed Defence Staff (CDS) and other The red chamber, also a fresh $2.347 billion loan from deficit and refinance Nigeria’s the appointment of Nigeria’s service chiefs after a two-hour yesterday, approved President the international capital market Continued on page 10 newly appointed Chief of closed-door session. Bola Tinubu’s request to secure to part-finance the 2025 budget
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FG Bows to Public Pressure, Reverses Pardon List Deji Elumoye, Alex Enumah and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
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L–R: Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II; Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun; Founder, Oxford Global Think Tank, Arunma Oteh; PHOTO: KINGSLEY ADEBOYE and Founder, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Atedo Peterside, during the Oxford Global Think Tank Leadership Conference in Abuja, yesterday
In deference to public criticism, President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, revised downward the list of Continued on page 10
NNPC Shops for Equity Partners to ‘High-grade’ Its Comatose Refineries
Port Harcourt, Warri, Kaduna facilities will work, says Ojulari Prices to rise further as FG approves 15% tariff on imported fuel Official letter indicates it will trigger N99.72 per litre increase in Lagos But argues it will allow domestic refiners to cover costs Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
view to bringing them back online. In a post on his verified The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited personal X handle last night, the (NNPC) yesterday announced Group Chief Executive Officer AREWA FORUM MEETS SHETTIMA... that it had begun a detailed of the national oil company, L–R: National Executive, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Maman Mike Osman; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu; and Vice President, Kashim Shettima, during the Vice President’s review of Nigeria’s three Continued on page 10 meeting with delegates of the Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday petroleum refineries, with a PHOTO: GODWIN OMOIGUI