Fuel Subsidy

January 28, (THEWILL) - The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has hailed the Supreme Court judgment affirming the jail term of Ex-lawmaker, Farouk Lawan. In a release signed by the organization’s Director of Administration and Programmes, Tola Oresanwo...

December 31, (THEWILL) - By every measure, the year 2023 has been one of the most challenging in living memory to operators in all sectors of the Nigerian economy: all economic projections and benchmarks missed their targets by wide...

December 21, (THEWILL) - The mechanical repair works on the rehabilitation of Warri Refinery Petrochemical Company (WRPC) will be completed latest by January 2024, THEWILL reports. The refinery will also commence operation in March 2024. Recall that the Federal Executive Council...

December 14, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has faulted reports by the World Bank that it is still paying subsidies on petrol, saying the era of petrol subsidy is “gone for good”. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris,...

November 07, (THEWILL) - The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have declared a total nationwide strike, effective next Tuesday, November 14, 2023. Labour also ordered the immediate withdrawal of services and shutdown...

November 07, (THEWILL) - The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have summoned an extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. National Vice-President of the TUC, Tommy Etim, made this known on Tuesday afternoon. Etim...

October 18, (THEWILL) - Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has approved the extension of the N10,000 transport allowance granted to the state civil servants to cushion the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government...

October 17, (THEWILL) – Nigerian government should consider full removal of petroleum products subsidy and significant increase in workers’ wages in the 2024 budget. This view was canvased by the Director, Centre for Economic Policy, University of Lagos, Prof Ndubuisi...

October 08, (THEWILL) - In the last three months, I have written three articles showing clearly how fuel subsidy removal was the greatest error ever committed by a Nigerian leader. Information that the Bola Tinubu Administration paid N169.4 billion...

October 06, (THEWILL) - The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has assured the public that it has no intention to increase pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS), commonly known as Petrol. THEWILL had earlier reported the reintroduction...