• Marketers discuss fuel import as Dangote and NNPCL prolong their agreements
• Nigerians desert air travel as flight prices rise above ₦200,000
• NARD loses seven-day salary due to strike
• NEMA records over 200 deaths in floods across 15 states
• FG and ASUU set to meet on Wednesday over proposed strike

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss.

Marketers discuss fuel import as Dangote and NNPCL prolong their agreements

Oil marketers may soon resolve to import petrol from external sources due to the recent announcement of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) claiming that it would only receive the petrol from Dangote  Refinery if the market prices of the product are higher than the pump prices in Nigeria.

NNPCL further mentioned that Dangote Refinery and other local refineries are permitted to sell to any marketer interested in purchasing as it (NNPCL) would not be the middleman for any entity in a free market scenario.

To contradict both NNPCL and Dangote Refinery, oil marketers have stated that they would only purchase petrol from wherever they found it affordable; importing is the cheaper solution currently.

Nigerians desert air travel as flight prices rise above ₦200,000

Nigerians have been forced to consider other means of transportation as air flight tickets have become expensive for just one-way trips.

Domestic flight ticket prices in Nigeria have led many to abandon their local air trips as routes like Lagos to Abuja, Kano, Enugu and Owerri are as high as ₦650,000 for some airlines.

Whereas a one-way trip from Lagos to Abuja was once ₦50,000/₦65,000 but now costs between ₦130,000 and ₦220,000.

NARD loses seven-day salary due to strike

The federal government has remained adamant in its “No Work, No Pay” policy, which states that any union or organisation that goes on strike will not be paid for the duration of its time on strike.

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on a week-long strike to demand the rescue of their colleague, Dr Popoola Ganiyat, who had been in the hands of kidnappers for over eight months.

Three days after the NARD went on strike, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare announced that they would implement the “No Work, No Pay” policy.

NEMA records over 200 deaths in floods across 15 states

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reported that over 200 deaths have been caused by floods across 15 states in Nigeria.

According to the agency, the affected states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Borno, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara.

The floods have affected 611,201 persons across 29 states and 154 local government areas, displaced 225,169 people, affected 83,457 houses, injured 2,119 persons and destroyed 115,265 farmlands.

FG and ASUU set to meet on Wednesday over proposed strike

The federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are scheduled to meet on Wednesday, 11 September, to discuss ASUU’s announcement to strike due to the FG’s ignorance of its demands.

The federal government and ASUU met three weeks ago when the latter first announced its plans for a nationwide strike, and though no conclusion was made in the meeting, ASUU listed its demands. The representatives of the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, promised to have another meeting with their demands resolved.