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Two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the senate have resigned their membership of the party. The senators are Mathew Urhoghide, representing Edo south, and Ayo Akinyelure representing Ondo central. Ovie Omo-Agege, deputy senate president, read letters of their resignation during plenary on Wednesday. Urhoghide cited the crisis in the PDP […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it has adjusted the price of petrol, also known as premium motor spirit (PMS), across its retail outlets. In a statement on Wednesday, Garba Deen Muhammad, NNPC’s spokesperson, said the adjustment is in line with market realities. According to the statement, pump prices at […]

The senate has finally passed for second reading, a bill seeking to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and persons with disabilities. In December 2021, Biodun Olujimi, senator representing Ekiti south, was forced to withdraw the legislation after some of her colleagues raised “socio-cultural and Islamic concerns”. It was agreed then […]

Yakubu Suleiman, the national spokesperson of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), says over 100 petrol stations have been sanctioned for increasing pump prices. Briefly after President Bola Tinubu’s speech on May 29 that the petrol subsidy has been cancelled, panic buying erupted in some parts of the country as some […]

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says it is ready to issue licences to companies interested in petrol importation. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Farouk Ahmed, chief executive officer of NMDPRA, said the criteria for importing kerosene and diesel will be applicable for the importation of the product. However, […]

Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has tendered 118 exhibits before the presidential election petition court (PEPC) to prove his case against President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu, the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner of the February 25 election after scoring 8,794,726 votes. […]

Adewole Adebayo, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Festus Osifo, president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Tuesday, engaged in a heated argument during an interview on petrol subsidy. Adebayo and Osifo appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today to speak on the petrol subsidy removal. Adebayo said […]

A joint report by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) says over 24.8 million Nigerians are at risk of acute food insecurity between June and August. The report which was published on Monday, listed Nigeria, Afghanistan, and South Sudan as part of the 18 hunger hotspots in […]

Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, says the federal government still owes the firm the sum of N2.8 trillion spent on petrol subsidy. Addressing journalists after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, on Tuesday, Kyari said the subsidy payment was no longer […]