Today, Sunday, National Commercial Bank confirmed through its official Facebook page that the daily withdrawal limit through ATMs has been raised to 700 dinars per day, 1400 dinars per week and 4,000 dinars per month.
The Bank indicated that the ceiling of purchase through points of sale was raised to 4000 dinars daily and 8000 dinars monthly.
The Minister of Planning and Finance, Oussama Hammad, met today, Sunday, in Benghazi, with the Minister of Health of the Libyan government, Othman Abdel Jalil, to discuss ways to advance the health sector and provide the necessary financial support so that the health sector can carry out its entrusted tasks and provide advanced medical services to the Libyan citizen.
The meeting also discussed ways to support important hospitals and specialized centers by supporting the improvement and treatment clause to solve the urgent problems in these hospitals.
On Thursday, the Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed Al-Huwaij, met with the Ambassador of Tunisia, Al-Asaad Al-Ajili, to discuss joint commercial cooperation, facilitate procedures for the private sector and businessmen between the two countries, develop a strategy for economic and commercial cooperation, and ways to enhance and revitalize transit trade and activate trade agreements, as well as follow-up the executive procedures regarding the establishment of a joint free zone and increasing trade exchange between the two countries.
The meeting was attended by the Minister’s advisor, Shadher Al-Sid, the Undersecretary for Free Zones, Nouri Al-Qatati, the Director of the Department of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation, Ezzedine Msadaq, the Minister’s office, Fawzi Wadi, and the commercial attaché of the Tunisian Embassy, Abdel Razzaq Al-Muadeb.
The Higher Committee to follow up on the disbursement of the wife and children grant, headed by the Minister of Social Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Wafa Al-Kilani, held its second meeting.
The meeting discussed the current situation for the implementation of the grant project and the conduct of the current exchange operations, as well as the internal regulations and the preparation of a vision for the possibility of amending the wife and children grant law to suit the current circumstances.
The meeting agreed on the necessity of following-up the grant disbursement processes with the operating banks in order to facilitate the smooth delivery of grant payments to the beneficiaries. The meeting concluded that coordination between all relevant authorities to ensure the success of the grant project and to ensure that it reaches its beneficiaries.
The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, arrived to Qatar today, Thursday, and was received by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at the Amiri Diwan to discuss the need to support international efforts to hold elections in Libya as the only option for the Libyan people to reach stability and reject the transitional stages.
The meeting was attended by the Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Bin Abdulrahman, the Governor of the Central Bank of Qatar, a number of ministers in the government, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Seddik Al-Kabeer, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Najla Al-Mangoush, the Ministers of State for Communication and Political Affairs Walid Al-Lafi and for Cabinet Affairs, Adel Jumaa, the Ambassador Libya to the State of Qatar and the Political Adviser.
The Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, and the Minister of Finance, Khaled Al-Mabrouk, met today, Thursday, to discuss many issues that concern the sectors of oil and gas and of finance and ways to overcome difficulties in order to support the oil sector to reach the targets and maintain and increase production.
The two ministers discussed the mechanism for implementing the decision to increase employees, in accordance with what was stated in the Cabinet’s decision.
Dr. Hind Muammar Shubar revealed a suspicion of fraud in the documents of the Faculty of Pharmacy, after including her signature as Head of the Study and Examinations Department at the Faculty in the transcripts dating back to 2018, knowing that she held a position of an advisor to the Council of Ministers during that period and had nothing to do with the Study and Examinations Department of the College of Pharmacy.
Shubar confirmed that she assumed the position of Head of the Study and Examinations Department in 2015, noting that the signature included in the documents is not her signature.
The doctor also clarified that during her tenure as Head of the Study and Examinations Department, Dr. Muhammad Al-Saqr was Dean of the College of Pharmacy, not Dr. Abdul Raouf Al-Qasabi, as stated in the transcripts.
Dr. Hind Shubar called on the regulatory authorities and the Pharmacists Syndicate to take the necessary measures towards what she described as farce.
The National Oil Corporation’s budget follow-up committee held its 10th meeting at the Cabinet Office, in the presence of the Chairman of Farhat Ben Gdara management committee, to follow up on the settlement of salaries for workers in the sector through the disbursement of the salaries of new employees and the increase issued by the decision of the Council of Ministers, and to discuss the triple plan of the NOC according to what was agreed upon when preparing the extraordinary budget.
Ben Gdara confirmed that the management committee is holding its meetings with companies operating in the sector in order to develop a triple plan, the first goal of which is to bring Libya’s production of crude oil to 2 million barrels per day.
Today, Wednesday, the former head of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, said on his official Facebook page that he considered the Administrative Judicial Department, South Tripoli Court of Appeal, in the request submitted by the lawyer appointed by him and the members of the NOC’s board of directors in the urgent part to stop the contested decision until the adjudication of the case.
The decision of the court in this application concluded with rejection, with its acknowledgment of accepting the case in form, as well as its acknowledgment of his capacity as appellants and on the condition of interest in the appeal.
Sanalla affirmed that he welcomed what the court decided and what was achieved in his capacity as the appellant, and he is awaiting the court’s ruling on the subject matter of the case in its entirety, which will express the whole truth, supported by facts and reasons.
The National Oil Corporation clarified about what was published on the official page of the General Electricity Company regarding the lack of gas supplies to the Zueitina and Sarir stations, which was the reason for the loss of 280 megabytes. Scheduled maintenance during the past years due to lack of funding and security conditions, as they mentioned. The Corporation affirmed its keenness to provide the available supplies of gas to consumers, despite what it suffers from not carrying out overhauls and scheduled maintenance work during the past years due to lack of funding and security conditions.
It said that the cessation of the second phase of Al-Faragh field production, with the continuation of the first phase without interruption, was for less than half a day, and part of the lost gas was compensated by the operation of the Sahel field. These interruptions are expected due to the nature of the above-mentioned operations and reasons and the correct treatment should be coordinated with sufficient time with the competent authorities to provide the alternative fuel needed to generate electricity in a backup for use when needed.