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• Nomads, almajiri groups root for Jonathan’s return • Lawan: Why I want Buhari’s seat• Bakare promises to reconcile aggrieved Nigerians • Fayemi explains huge interest in presidency on APC platform• Orji Kalu pulls out of race for Lawan, picks Senate form • Insecurity: Robert Clarke wants tenure extension for Buhari The twists and turns that marked the sale of …

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has asked Nigerians to prepare for the worst fuel crisis. To avoid this, the petrol marketers association asked the Federal Government to prevail on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority to pay its members their outstanding bridging claims amounting to over N500 billion. The IPMAN chairman in Kano State, Bashir Danmalam, …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has charged the banking public to key into its e-Naira platform to avoid fake mobile money transfers. According to its Lagos branch Controller, Mr Godfrey Boyor, who made the plea during the e-Naira Sensitisation  for traders, bureaux de change, socio-cultural groups, and other stakeholders, organised in collaboration with Bizi Mobile Cashless Consultant Limited Thursday at Kairo …

As the second round of the eight-week warning strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ends today, the union is poised to go on an indefinite industrial action, Vanguard has gathered. Sources said the national leadership of the union would make public its decision today.It was gathered that the National Executive Committee, NEC, of …

Scores of passengers have blocked the boarding gate of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja following the delay in their flights. Angry passengers told PREMIUM TIMES Monday morning that they have been at the airport since Sunday night to catch flights to different destinations. As of 8:36 a.m., passengers of Arik airline due for take off at 7 p.m. on Sunday were …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has cautioned Nigerians not to engage in panic buying of petrol, saying it has enough product for the country. The NNPC said this in a late Sunday statement by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Garba Deen Muhammad. The corporation said the sudden appearance of fuel queues in parts of Abuja was due to …

The All Progressives Party Chairman of Ward 6 in the Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr Nduka Erikpume, has said the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, is a member of the party. Erikpume, in a telephone chat with one of our correspondents on Sunday, said the CBN governor had registered as an APC member since …

Authorities of Nigeria’s Military Pensions Board have explained that only ex-soldiers who spent up to 15 years between 1977 and 1992 in the military are entitled to pension benefits according to extant laws. This is coming against the backdrop of fresh threats by a group of retired ex-soldiers to initiate a nationwide protest action over alleged non-payment of their pension …

**NDLEA intercepts Large Consignments of Drugs in Kaduna, Yobe, Plateau Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested two pregnant women among other drug traffickers, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos for attempting to import and export illicit drugs through the airport in the last week. The first to enter the Agency’s dragnet is …

The family of late Sen. Arthur Nzeribe says it has begun traditional consultation for the funeral rites of the late business mogul and political icon. Late Nzeribe died at the age of 83 years on May 5 following protracted illness. The family made the disclosure on Sunday in an official statement titled “Our mighty Iroko has fallen: Sen. Chief Francis …