Petroleum marketers in Nigeria say they are standing in limbo over the controversy surrounding Dangote Refinery Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) pricing as released by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Monday. This comes as the petroleum marketers demanded that Dangote Refinery should disclose the price it sold petrol to NNPCL for transparency. Marketers further […]
The number of Nigerians with National Identification Numbers has increased to 110 million, the National Identity Management Commission has disclosed. This is a 2.39 per cent increase from the 107.34 million that was recorded as of the end of May 2024. The Commission’s Director General Abisoye Coker-Odusote, disclosed the new figure at an ongoing event […]
Expectedly, Victor Osimhen made an instant impact in the Turkish Super Lig, having seven shots on goal on his debut for Galatasaray in Saturday’s 5-0 rout of Rizespor, a record in a Super Lig match this season. Smarting from the disappointment of failed summer window’s deadline day’s moves to Chelsea and Ah Ahly, the 25-year-old […]
An American pastor detained by China since 2006 on what the United States has called spurious charges has been freed, the State Department said Sunday. David Lin “has returned to the United States and now gets to see his family for the first time in nearly 20 years,” a State Department spokesperson told AFP. “We […]
US media named Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022 where he had traveled to support the war effort, as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump. US media said it was Routh, 58, who was arrested after US Secret Service agents “opened fire on a gunman” carrying an AK-47 style rifle […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has said that it will sell the petrol lifted from the Dangote Refinery at a price above N1,000 per litre in the far north. The NNPC spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed this on Monday, in a statement titled, ‘NNPC Ltd Releases Estimated Pump Prices of PMS from Dangote Refinery Based […]
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, have directed an immediate investigation into allegations that a Naval rating, Seaman Abbas Haruna, has been in detention for nearly six years. Haruna’s wife had, while featuring on a radio station in Abuja, accused the military authorities of […]
Operatives of the Imo State Police Command on Sunday repelled an attack on the Njaba Divisional Headquarters by hoodlums suspected to be affiliated with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed militia, the Eastern Security Network. According to a release signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Henry Okoye, the attackers, arriving in […]
British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, meets Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, in Rome on Monday to discuss tackling illegal immigration, a day after another Channel migrant shipwreck claimed eight lives. Starmer, whose centre-left Labour Party was elected with a crushing parliamentary majority in July, has vowed to fight illegal immigration, a hot-button topic in British politics […]
Unsettled Napoli striker Victor Osimhen is on the verge of joining Galatasaray after the former Italian champions and the player agreed on a loan move to the Turkish giants on Monday. After his failed move to Chelsea, the 25-year-old still has a lifeline of moving out of Napoli as the Turkish transfer window closes on […]
