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My Fellow Nigerians,   As we mark this year’s Christmas, may the love of Christ and his message of grace, hope, peace, and goodwill to humanity abide with us all.   Beyond the celebration and festivities of this season, Christmas reminds us to reflect on the significance of Jesus Christ’s birth and his message of […]

The National Identification Number issued by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has now automatically become a Tax ID for Nigerians starting from January 2026, according to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The declaration comes amidst concerns over a provision of the tax laws mandating a Tax ID for bank account ownership. According to […]

America’s latest tightening of travel rules is dressed up as a matter of national security. In practice, it looks more like a blunt instrument; one that lands hardest on ordinary Nigerians who pose no threat to anyone. On December 16, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation expanding US entry restrictions on countries judged to […]

Nigeria’s national oil company has escalated pressure on French energy major TotalEnergies after the multinational failed to promptly honor a $285.2 million arbitral award tied to the long-running Amenam–Kpono oilfield dispute, raising the prospect of aggressive recovery actions across jurisdictions, according to multiple sources, who briefed Culled From From aso.rocks on conditions of anonymity. The […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), following the Senate’s confirmation of its members on December 16.   Members of the reconstituted Board are:   • Mulisiu Olalekan Oseni, PhD. — Chairman   Dr Oseni started his service as a Commissioner in January 2017. […]

Nigeria has recovered only about $5 billion of an estimated $400 billion stolen from public coffers since the 1980s, underscoring the vast scale of corruption losses and the limited success of international asset recovery efforts, according to government disclosures, court records and academic research.   Peer-reviewed research and official records show that corruption drained more […]

  Culled From From aso.rocks can authoritatively report that the state oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), is in the final stages of sealing a $4.7 billion crude-for-loan agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Aramco; a landmark transaction that would rank as the company’s largest oil-backed financing deal to date, according to officials familiar […]

President of the Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has launched a fresh offensive against the regulator, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), insisting the leadership of the authority is sabotaging efforts at boosting local refining.   At a press conference on Sunday, at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, he said imports were […]

Nigeria is a nation fond of grand slogans. “Renewed Hope” is the latest. Yet for millions of Nigerian women and girls, hope ends at home. New data suggest that the living room, not the battlefield or the back alley, has become the country’s most reliable site of violence. Three in four cases of gender-based violence […]

Culled From From aso.rocks can authoritatively report that, Nigeria is facing a new international legal challenge after British junior mining firm Jupiter Lithium Ltd. formally initiated arbitration proceedings against the federal government at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), escalating a dispute over lithium mining assets in Kaduna State that […]