Long queue at a filling station over fuel scarcity in Abuja…yesterday. Credit: Adeyemi Adekunle • NNPC asks trading firms for emergency petrol supplies as FG battles to restore order • Queues spread across Nigeria, black marketers sell at N250/litre in Abuja • NMDPRA, NNPC identify supplier of adulterated fuel, to sanction misdeed • IPMAN blames […]
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Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Tuesday warned that any party that fields a northern candidate in the 2023 Presidential election will lose. Akeredolu disclosed that Governors in the Southern part of the country under the auspices of the Southern Governors Forum are determined to ensure […]
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The Federal Government through its Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority may return to the overseas supplier, the contaminated Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, which was imported into the country by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Oil marketers estimated that about 100 million litres of contaminated petrol were imported into Nigeria and […]
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Remi Aye at the Trauma Centre, Ondo on Monday By Banji Ayoola Mr Remi Aye, the former Ondo State Government House Photographer for The Hope newspapers, is in a critical condition. His wife, Janet, and son, Ayo, spoke on telephone on Monday evening from the Trauma Centre, Ondo, where he is hospitalised. The wife said […]
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IMF Photo: AFP/Getty images • Nation living on extra time, Sanusi warns The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the Federal Government could spend as much as 92.6 per cent of its revenue on debt servicing this year. This is contained in its 2021 Article IV, which was released yesterday. It also estimated last year’s […]
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Members of Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), led by Senator Magnus Abe, said yesterday they support the presidential bid of former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu because he saved them from shame and ridicule in 2013 when they were dislodged from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A chieftain of the APC […]
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• Artificial scarcity caused by recall of dirty petrol, source claims • NARTO to withdraw haulage services over diesel price, operation cost Residents of the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos, began the new week, yesterday, with some level of anxiety and confusion as fuel scarcity appeared in some parts of the state, especially on the Island […]
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By Azu Ishiekwene My wife occasionally jokes that my stressful, high-strung lifestyle could mean I’ll die before her. I’ve hardly paid any attention, until recently. Three weeks ago, we both visited a friend who lost his father on New Year’s Day. The deceased was over 90. We went in company with my friend and neighbour […]
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A farmer, Mr Femi Alawiye and nine of his farm workers lured to the farm and abducted in Ogbese area of Ondo state have regained their freedom after parting with N10.7m ransom. A family member said that the kidnappers counted the money and ensured it was complete before they freed those kidnapped. Recall that the […]
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’There are strong indications that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may be determined by the ‘mood of the country,’ it has been learnt. As reported yesterday, the PDP is yet to make up its mind on the zone its presidential candidate will come from because both the PDP and the All […]
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