BREAKING: FG Crash Cooking Gas Price The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC Ltd.) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) producers to stop the export of cooking gas, effective November 1, 2024, in a bid to reduce prices and improve domestic supply. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Mr. Ekperikpe Ekpo, issued the directive during a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. The meeting, which addressed the rising cost of cooking gas across the country, aimed to find short- and long-term solutions to stabilize the market. Speaking through his spokesperson, Louis Ibah, Ekpo announced immediate…
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Husband Of Woman Accused Of Quality Fu¢k With Commissioner In Uncompleted Building Makes U-turn, Begs Jigawa, Kano Govs The husband of a married woman, Tasleem, accused of having alleged illicit affairs with a Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties, Auwalu Sankara, Nasiru Buba, has appealed to the Jigawa and Kano governors to save his marriage before it collapses. To this end, Nasiru Buba appealed to the two governors of Kano and Jigawa States not to yield to pressure mounted on them to interfere in the case in the name of killing it. Speaking to newsmen Tuesday in Kano, Nasiru Buba…
Reps Want Equal Status For Senate President, Speaker The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution advocating for restructuring joint sessions of the National Assembly so that the Senate President and the Speaker of the House alternate the presiding roles. This initiative aims to establish parity between the two chambers, an issue the lawmakers raised when Senate President Godswill Akpbio was honoured with GCON CFR. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu later reversed course and awarded Tajudeen Abbas, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, GCON. Under the new proposal, the Speaker would initiate sessions while the Senate President would provide closing…
Bobrisky Spent Night In FCID Female Cell Amid Controversy Controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, who is currently under detention at the Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon, Lagos State, spent the night in a female cell in the police facility. A source, who confirmed the development to our correspondent, on the condition of anonymity, said Okuneye was detained in the female cell because of his controversial lifestyle, adding that there were no female detainees as of the time he was detained at the facility. The source said, “Bobrisky was brought to the FCID, Alagbon, around 10 p.m. on Monday. Immigration arrested…
‘Yahoo Yahoo’ Not A Crime – Tinubu’s Wife The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, says cybercrime commonly known as ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ is not a crime against individuals and businesses but an assault on collective integrity, economic stability and the future of Nigerian youth. Speaking during the unveiling of 24- hour Cybercrime Rapid Response Desk by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday in Abuja, Tinubu noted that the theme of the event “Alternatives to Cybercrime: Optimizing Cyber Skills for National Development,” resonated deeply with the current challenges cybercrime posed not only in Nigeria but across the globe.…
Be Ready To Pay Market Price For Petrol; Oil Marketer Tells Nigerians Group Managing Director, Rainoil Ltd, Gabriel Ogbechie, has asked Nigerians to prepare to pay full market prices for petroleum products as a result of the full deregulation of the downstream sector. After President Bola Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, the pump price of petrol rose from N198 to N545 per litre and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) regulated pump prices at its outlets nationwide. The Interesting Things About Pha Din Pass, Dien Bien That Just A Few People Know But two weeks ago, NNPCL exited…
Israel Ki||s Hashem Safieddine, Potential Successor Of Slain Hezbollah Chief Israel says it killed Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor of the slain Hezbollah leader in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb three weeks ago. Israel Defense Forces announced the elimination of Safieddine on Tuesday. It announced that Safieddine, Head of the Hezbollah Executive Council and Ali Hussein Hazima, Commander of Hezbollah’s Intelligence Headquarters, were “eliminated during a strike on Hezbollah’s main intelligence HQ in Dahieh approx. 3 weeks ago”. It said, “Hashem Safieddine was a member of the Shura Council, Hezbollah’s most senior military-political forum, responsible for the decision-making…
Tinubu To Nigerian; You Have Choice To Either Buy Fuel At N1,000 Per Litre Or ….. President Bola Tinubu has again boasted that his administration has provided Nigerians with workable solution to the hike in the fuel price. Earlier this month, filling stations owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) hiked the fuel price to about N1,030 per litre in the country. This new increment came barely one month after the state-owned company hiked the fuel price to over N850 per litre from N670. Consequently, transportation and food item prices have skyrocketed, triggering severe inflation. Shortly after the…
BREAKING: Abuja On Fire As Kidnappers Kill Top National Assembly Lawmaker’s Aide A member of the House of Representatives, Dabo Haruna, on Tuesday, lamented that despite payment of ransom, kidnappers killed his legislative aide, Miss Nimah Sulaiman, on October 17, 2024. Haruna, who represents Toro federal constituency of Bauchi State while moving a motion of urgent national importance, said his legislative aide was brutally murdered on her way home. Presenting the motion, the lawmaker said in recent years, the nation’s capital, Abuja, has experienced an uprising in the rate of kidnappings and robbery incidents, including “one chance.” He said it…
Obasanjo Blows Hot, Says Denying Igbo Presidency For Attempting To Break Out Of Nigeria Unfair Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that it is not fair to blame only the Igbo for attempting to secede from Nigeria. This is as the former Nigerian leader said the country’s three major ethnic nationalities had at one time or another attempted to break up the nation through secession. He said he usually felt bad each time he heard some people saying no Igbo man would become Nigeria’s President because of the ethnic nationality’s involvement in the bloody January 15, 1966 coup that truncated the…