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The removal of petrol subsidy will no longer be immediate, Vanguard gathered authoritatively last night.Recall that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had said in his inauguration speech Monday that the subsidy was gone, as it was not provided for in the 2023 budget. But sources told Vanguard yesterday that implementation of the removal of subsidy would commence post-June. The need to …

The Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has suspended all transport levies imposed on commercial drivers in the state. This was contained in a statement by the special adviser to the governor on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma, on Wednesday. He stated that the directive was in line with the campaign promise of the governor to sanitize methods of revenue collection …

Bryan, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. According to report by Associated Press, Holmes, 39, could be seen from outside the prison’s gates walking into the federal women’s prison camp …

Osun State Government on Tuesday, described hoarding of petrol by marketers as a result of the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu as an inhuman and an act of wickedness. It also threatened to seal any filling station in the state caught hoarding the product with deliberate act to unleash suffering on the masses. In a statement issued …

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Mr Shettima, considers himself a lucky politician. “For me as a person, I should be ever grateful to God. I’m one of the luckiest members of my generation. I became a governor after only four years in politics not because of my intellectual acumen…,” he said in an interview with Daily Trust newspaper. Born on 2 September 1966 in …

“They even placed an armoured tank just to scare us away,” one EFCC official told this newspaper. The State Security Service (SSS) says it is the rightful owner of the Ikoyi building where the EFCC Lagos headquarters is located and so can do whatever it wants with it. The SSS said this in response to a PREMIUM TIMES enquiry on why its …

Subsidy can no longer justify its ever-increasing costs in the wake of drying resources, Mr Tinubu said. Fuel queues returned to Nigerian cities Monday as many motorists scrambled to get petroleum products hours after President Bola Tinubu announced that the government will put an end to the fuel subsidy regime. Mr Tinubu on Monday in his inaugural address at Eagle …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has mourned the passing of the Founder of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, describing him as the “pioneer of private broadcast media in Nigeria” In a statement today, the governor said Chief Dopkesi was an illustrious son of Edo State, who recorded indelible achievements that marked him out as one of Nigeria’s most impactful media …

The Chairman of Daar Communications, owner of Ray Power and Africa Independent Television (AIT) is dead. A reliable source told newsmen that Dokpesi died at 71 years in an hospital in Abuja after he suffered a stroke. A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dokpesi was a seasoned and an accomplished businessman who pioneered the private media ownership in …

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, in Abuja, said he will extend the courtesy worthy of a fellow compatriot to his opponents in the February 25 election that brought him to power. He also argued that Nigeria had not had a better election that the recently concluded one in its history. “My victory does not render me more Nigerian than the …