Nigerians lament as kerosene price hits ₦2,000/litre Tinubu swaps varsity leaderships in FUOYE and Lokoja ACF blames the Northern leaders for the word of the region US-based Nigerian sentenced to…
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Read More2023 Elections: PDP, APC trade accusations over Tinubu, Atiku’s manifestosNigeria to revive trade relations with RussiaUS, UK warns citizens of possible terror attacks in Nigeria’s capitalKerosene price soars by 118%,…
Read Moreby Azeez Adeniyi Operatives of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment, at the weekend arrested 43 suspected oil bunkers. The personnel also sealed-off property containing 2.5 million litres worth of…
Read MoreThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday dismissed a report that there would be an increase in price of petroleum products. In a statement by spokesman of the corporation,…
Read MoreThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has urged all marketers of petroleum products not to sell kerosene beyond N150 per litre. The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru…
Read MoreThe Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Monday urged the Federal Government to adopt a clear policy on kerosene. The appeal was made by the union’s…
Read MoreThe price of Household Kerosene (HHK) has been increased from N50 per litre from N83 per litre, as the federal government prepares to officially end subsidy payment on the product.…
Read Moreby Damilola Jagun Borrowing from the inspiration of Ayo Fayose, transactional politics is proving to be the order of the day. For some, it is promise and perform, for many…
Read MoreIjaw elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, on Thursday said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is incapable of ruling a democratic state. Clark, who…
Read Moreby Akan Ido The Federal Government through the minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has given strong indications that the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) and Kerosene may soon…
Read Moreby Umar Yakubu Thoughts around security, national budget, state of the economy are not debated. Instead, you will read a lot of name-calling and exchange of insults. Ironically, that’s what…
Read Moreby Ayo Benjamin A subsidy policy that attempts to make a popular commodity like kerosene, used by most households, affordable for the masses cannot be wrong. One gets the feeling…
Read Moreby Olusegun Adeniyi However, it is interesting that the same CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, whom NNPC now accuses of ignorance and “playing politics”, was the administration’s posterboy in…
Read Moreby Akintomiwa Agbaje The House of Representatives mandated its committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) to conduct an investigative hearing on the expenditure and subsidy on kerosene, yesterday. The tenets surrounding the…
Read Moreby Ife Adebayo These are important questions to ponder on. What fuels your fight against corruption, what fuels your acts of corruption? Is the Nigerian conscience present? Or is the…
Read Moreby Ijeoma Nwogwugwu I have often argued that the hue and cry over the retention of the subsidy on petrol is one that is managed and controlled by the elite.…
Read Moreby 'Jola Sotubo An inferno caused by adulterated kerosene has led to the death of one in Ebonyi State and caused varying degrees of injury to two other persons. The…
Read MoreFile photo The law frowns upon citizens taking matters into their own hands and dishing their own brand of street justice. A woman in India took serving street justice to…
Read Moreby Oge Okonkwo A 42-year-old suspected fraudster, Gbolahan Bolarinde, has been arrested and brought before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku for allegedly defrauding a kerosene dealer, Jumoke Babalola ,of …
Read MoreIta Bassey-Eno in critical condition An 11-year old girl, Ita Bassey-Eno, was allegedly set ablaze by her guardian, Nkese Iroakazi, a nurse at a hospital in Surulere. The victim has been…
Read MoreThe Federal Government in collaboration with stakeholders in the petroleum industry has commenced drafting of a new policy to phase out kerosene and firewood usage and replaced them with Liquefied…
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