Day: October 2, 2025

NNPCL Counts Cost of Strike as PENGASSAN Ends Industrial Action

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Bashir Ojulari, the group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has expressed regret over the losses in gas and crude output brought on by the three-day strike by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria. Ojulari wrote to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission to explain that the country experienced a 20% power supply shortage and a 16% oil production and 30% marketed petrol loss as a result of the suspended strike. The National…

Adekunle Gold Embraces Nigerian Roots in New Album, ‘Fuji’

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With the release of his sixth album, “Fuji,” on Friday, Nigerian musician Adekunle Gold pays homage to his homeland’s traditional sounds, marking a return to his roots. “That sound serves as Lagos’s theme music.” It is present everywhere. Afrobeats and everything else we hear today were born out of that sound,” Gold told AFP in Paris. The Indigenous Yoruba community, one of the biggest ethnic groupings in West Africa, serves as an inspiration for the Afropop icon, who is descended from the Kosoko royal line. The 38-year-old singer described it…