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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has persuaded the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, to adjourn further proceedings on the case he filed to challenge the outcome of the presidential election that held on February 25.  Obi, through his team of lawyers that were led by Prof. Awa Kalu, SAN, on Wednesday, told …

Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) on Tuesday tendered before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) copies of results sheets, printouts of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and record of the number of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) collected for the last presidential election across the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to open …

The downstream sector of Nigeria’s petroleum industry has been thrown into confusion as a document puts the retail price of petrol at over N500 per litre. The document, obtained by Vanguard, put petrol price in Abuja, Lagos and Kano at N537, N488 and N540 per litre respectively. The Authority Chief Executive, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed, …

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Executive Committee, Timothy Osadolor, says the immediate-past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is no longer a member of the party, given his conduct before, during and after the 2023 general elections. Osadolor, who gave the hint in a telephone conversation with The PUNCH on Tuesday, noted that the leadership of the …

• Tinubu backpedals as NNPC claims FG owes it N2.8tr• Shettima: Nigerians will soon appreciate FG’s position on subsidy removal• Marketers divided as MOMAN, IPMAN, DAPMAN back move• Nigeria’s 36.9m MSMEs, 96.7% businesses face collapse• TUC, NUPENG reject immediate subsidy removal• NLC: Instead of hope, Tinubu’s inauguration day brought tears, sorrow All parts of Nigeria – from the East to …

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 …