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Many filling stations across the country on Friday shunned the Federal Government’s directive on the new pump price for petrol as they continued to sell the product at either the old regulated price of N87 per litre or above it. The Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency on Tuesday announced that retail filling stations belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation …

ABUJA- President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, reiterated his earlier declaration of his administration willingness to negotiate with leaders of dreaded Boko Haram Islamists to ensure release of April 2014 abducted Chibok girls. Fielding journalists questions in a media chat last night, President Buhari dismissed reports that some Chibok girls have been rescued by the military stressing that if the government is …

The Federal Government says will digitalise the operations of the Federal Civil Service in 2016 to forestall altering of vital documents by some officials. The acting Head of the Civil Service (HOS) of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, when she paid an unscheduled visit to some Ministries and Government Agencies. She said the visit …

THE Federal Government has said from January 1, 2016, all retail stations of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) would start selling petrol at N86 per litre. Mr Farouk Ahmed, the Executive Secretary, Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), announced this at a news conference in Abuja, on Tuesday. He also said other oil marketers would sell at N86.50 per …

Operatives of the Department of the State Security Service have re-arrested a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). He was re-arrested at the gate of the Kuje Prison, Abuja, while he was about leaving the prison after meeting the bail conditions set for him by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja. The DSS took custody of Dasuki …

THE violent confrontation between Nigerian Army troops and the Islamic Shi’ite sect in Zaria, Kaduna State, will, if not properly handled, have far-reaching repercussions with an unpredictable end. Two issues are immediately raised by the bloodletting: one is lawlessness in the name of religion and, the other, the appropriate response of the security forces to lightly armed hostile civilians. The …

Federal Government of Nigeria has filed a lawsuit accusing Haliru Mohammed Bello, a former acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his son, Abba Bello Mohammed, and his son’s firm, BAM Nigeria Ltd, of fraudulently collecting N300 million from former National Security Advisor, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.). The four-count indictment accuses Mr. Bello, who also served as a minister …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration has about N3.7 trillion local and foreign debts to contend with as it tries to fund the over N6 trillion 2016 budget in the midst of dwindling oil revenues. Speaking in an interview with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa Service translated by an online news agency, Premium Times, the president said he …

Alltimepost.com, Benin – Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that someone who believes in the State and has the capacity to manage it will emerge as candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC) and win the votes of the people as the Governor in the 2016 gubernatorial election in the State. The Governor disclosed this while addressing Benin …

Edo State Government has repealed the Act establishing the State Customary Court of Appeal that had hitherto existed alongside the State High Courts. The State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole told newsmen after signing into Law the Bill repealing the Act on Tuesday: “I have just signed into law the bill to repeal the establishment of the Customary Court of Appeal …