Day: February 15, 2022

We Need N2.557trn For Fuel Subsidy in 6 Months, Buhari writes Senate

Aliyu Aliyu

President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking approval of a supplementary budget of N2.557trn to cover subsidy on petroleum products from June to December 2022. Platforms Africa reports that President Buhari’s letter was read on Tuesday during plenary by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan. The amount approved for subsidy on Petroleum products from January to June was N443 billion and with the present request, the total amount stands at N3 trillion. Indications that the President would submit the supplementary budget emerged on Tuesday, January 25, when…

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He started to think he is our god, Aregbesola Bombs Tinubu + Full Speech

Gbenga Adeoti

The erstwhile ally of Tinubu and two-term governor of Osun state also speaks hot on Akande, Ambode, Oyetola   Interior Minister and former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, was in Osun State on Monday to meet his supporters in respect of the governorship election. Below is the excerpt of his speech: “I’m happy that we sent for you all and you honoured our invitation. Those we specifically asked to be invited here are party leaders from the ward level to the state. They are the critical stakeholders and I’m certain…

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Petrol Sells for N250 per litre As Scarcity bites Harder

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Succor Underway as 300 million litre petrol-laden Vessels commence product’s discharging in Lagos . Black marketers record business booms while filling stations ‘run out of fuel”   Two vessels laden with 300 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol, which arrived at Lagos ports, have started to discharge the product, Platforms Africa reports, just as hardship caused by off-spec product supply bite harder. The vessels, Platforms Africa gathered, arrived on Tuesday at ASPM jetty Ijora and Wednesday at Pinnacle jetty, Apapa, area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.…

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2023: INEC Registers 5.8m New Voters

Aliyu Aliyu

INEC registered 5.8 million new voters in its Continuous Voter Registration as at Monday, Feb. 14. It stated on Monday that 3.13 million of the new registrants had completed their registration. It explained that 1.3 million of the registrants registered online, while 1.84 registered physically. It added that 1.6 million of the registrants are male, another 1.5 million are female, and 27,543 are Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). It also stated that 9.9 million registered voters applied for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and update of…

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“Made Me Sleeping,” How Bad English Exposed Ataga’s Killers

Tade Salako

Ataga’s friend and co-founder of Super TV, Mr Rahman Saliu,gives first hand information on how Ataga ‘disappeared’ and the efforts made to track him   A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has heard how a text message written in poor English raised suspicion about the fate of the late Super TV Chief Executive Officer Usifo Ataga. Ataga’s friend and co-founder of Super TV, Mr Rahman Saliu, said the deceased was fluent in English but the SMS sent to him from Ataga’s phone contained uncharacteristic errors. The SMS, sent…

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Our Officers Probing Abba Kyari-Linked Drug Cartel Under Threat -NDLEA

ADEOLA YUSUF

Another top Cop, ASP John Umoru, named prominent member of cartel, on the run as erstwhile Super Cop, Abba Kyari, four others spend first night in Custody The probe of Nigeria’s erstwhile super cop, Abba Kyari, over alleged link with deadly drug cartel has taken a new twist with lives of Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officers involved in the probe and that of their families now under threat. This came as another top Cop, ASP John Umoru, who is named a prominent member of the cartel, is on…

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Female Candidates Pass More Than Male As WAEC Releases 2021 GCE Results

Amodu Ganiyu

Breakdown of success and failure by candidates in the examination that took place from November 12, 2021, to Wednesday, December 22, 2021.   The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the second series edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates, otherwise known as General Certificate Examination in which more female candidates recorded five credits than theit male counterparts. Platforms Africa reports that 32,637 candidates representing 63.44 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five (5) subjects (with or…

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