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Billionaire businessman and owner of Dangote Refinery, Aliko Dangote, has disclosed that his refinery has partnered with MRS to sell petrol at its retail outlets to Nigerians at N935 per litre. Dangote, in a statement on Saturday, hailed President Bola Ahmed for the positive impact of the naira for crude swap deal in the Nigerian economy. According to him, the …

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, has directed the Commissioners of Police in charge Anambra State and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, to investigate the twin stampedes for palliatives that occured at both Maitama and Okija. This is just the the IGP, speaking through the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed that the organizers of …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has refuted reports claiming the revived Port Harcourt Refinery has been shut down, saying the facility is fully operational. The nation’s oil company, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, and made available on Saturday, described the reports as false. According to the statement, the operational status of the refinery was …

Concerned Civil Society Organizations in Edo State have given the State House of Assembly and Governor Monday Okpebholo 72 hours to undo the suspension of the eighteen Local Government Chairmen and let them do their jobs or face the peoples’ action to save democracy in the heartbeat of the nation. At a world press conference addressed during the weekend by …

Less than a month after the Port Harcourt Refining Company appeared to have resumed production, the facility has stopped working. Our correspondent, who visited the refinery on Thursday, December 19, 2024, observed that the lifting of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) had stopped. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the lifting of petrol actually stopped last Friday, December 13, as the 18-arm loading bay …

…Orders him not to grant media interviews The Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, has granted bail to the human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, in the alleged defamation suit against him by the police. Farotimi was arrested on December 3, 2024, in Lagos by operatives of the Ekiti State police command over allegations of defamation …

Justice Amina Augie, the sixth female justice of the Supreme Court, retired from the apex court on September 22, 2023 having attained the mandatory retirement age of 70. While on the bench, she was a no-nonsense jurist whose judgments have been described as not only incisive but equally analytical and rich in content and context by the former Chief Justice …

President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he demanded a premature increase to the debt ceiling on “Biden’s watch” rather than his own. He doubled down on his call in a Truth Social post overnight Friday, calling for the “ridiculous” ceiling to be extended into 2029. Trump, in an interview …

The Federal Government has allocated a sum of N27bn for the entitlements of former presidents, vice-presidents, heads of state, chiefs of staff, retired heads of service, and professors in the 2025 fiscal year, investigations by Saturday PUNCH have revealed. From the left: Buhari, Jonathan, Yar’Adua and Obasanjo Beneficiaries of this allocation include former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari, alongside …

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, says the country needs to invest 20 billion dollars to achieve the economic targets by 2027. Edun said this during the citizens and stakeholders’ engagement on the implementation of presidential priorities and ministerial deliverables for the fourth quarter of 2024, in Abuja on Friday. He said that the …