The landing cost of premium motor spirit dropped to N774.82 per litre, cheaper than the ex-depot price of Dangote Refinery’s fuel, which stood at N825 per litre. This is contained in the latest competency centre daily energy data released by the Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria on Tuesday, 11 March, 2025. Data from MEMAN indicates that estimated import parity into tanks has reduced to N774.82 per litre, a reduction of N152.56 or 16.5 percent from the N927.48 per litre quoted on February 21, 2025 regarding petrol. The development comes as global oil price drop persists. For instance, Brent Crude…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara was on Wednesday, 12 March, 2025 denied access to the Rivers State House of Assembly quarters, where lawmakers held plenary sessions. It was gathered that the Governor arrived at the Assembly quarters on morning of Wednesday, 12 March, 2025 to present the state 2025 Budget but was met with a locked gate, preventing his entry. Fubara had earlier pledged to implement the Supreme Court judgment, which includes the formal presentation of the 2024 budget. The budget was initially presented to a four-member Assembly faction in December 2023. Last week, the Assembly issued a 48-hour ultimatum…
Gunmen in military uniform on Tuesday, 11 March, 2025 kidnapped the traditional ruler of Dnako community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. HRH Etsu Yuda Garba alongside his two grandsons and five other residents of the community were abducted when the gunmen invaded the community. Confirming the incident, a resident of the community, Tanko Baba said the kidnappers invaded the area at about 12.03 am on Tuesday, 11 March, 2025 Wearing military uniforms, they abducted the traditional leader and his grandchildren – Ephraim and Philemon. According to Baba, the abductors who were carrying AK-47 riffles raided some…
An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said Wednesday, 12 March, 2025. The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner when he was shot early Monday morning, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated in hospital. The dog — a year-old pit bull named Oreo — “got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger,” a police incident report said. It did not specify the type of weapon fired, and recorded the incident…
The Nigeria Police Force has abolished regulations that previously mandated the dismissal of unmarried female officers who became pregnant while in service. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Aishatu Baju, who is the most senior female officer in the Force, confirmed this development on Wednesday , 12 March, 2025 during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief. Baju explained that all discriminatory sections of the Police Act, including Section 127, which was used to justify the dismissal of pregnant unmarried officers, had been expunged in line with ongoing police reforms. She said, “That section, along with any other part of…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Dr Mohammed Mohammed Aminu as the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB). The President has also approved the appointment of Mr Idris Olorunnimbe as Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Board. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who made this disclosure in a statement on Tuesday, 11 March, 2025, also said Rasaq Olajuwon was named UBEC’s Deputy Executive Secretary (Technical), and Tunde Ajibulu as Deputy Executive Secretary (Services). Dr Aminu holds a PhD in Automobile Technology and a Masters in…
Gunmen on the night of Tuesday, 11 March, 2025 released the nine surveyors abducted at the Ilu Abo community in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. The victims were working at a site in the community on Tuesday, 4 March, 2025 when the gun-wielding men abducted them. The kidnappers demanded a N100 million ransom for their release. Their abduction forced some market women to storm the Governor’s office on Tuesday, 11 March, 2025 demanding Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s intervention. Confirming their release on the morning of Wednesday, 12 March, 2025 in a chat, Pastor Ajibade Owolanke, younger brother…
The African Union (AU) has condemned the proposed plan of the Sudanese militant group, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to form a parallel government in war torn Sudan. AU in a statement asked RSF and its affiliated political and social forces against the establishment of a parallel government in the Republic of Sudan, and warned that such action carries a huge risk of partitioning of the country. The Council called on all AU Member States and the international community not to recognize any parallel government or entity seeking to partition and govern any part of the territory of the Republic of…
Nigeria’s candidate, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, very narrowly failed to retain his FIFA Council seat, losing by a single vote at the poll that took place as part of the 14th CAF Extraordinary Congress in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday. The former NFF President scored 28 votes, only one short of both Ahmed Yahya of Mauritania and Souleman Hassan Waberi of Djibouti, who each scored 29 votes to make it to the exalted panel. Morocco’s Fouzi Lekjaa swept 49 votes, with Egypt’s Hany Abou Rida and Niger Republic’s Djibrilla Hima Hamidou netting 35 votes each. Lekjaa, Rida, Hamidou, Yahya and Waberi will…
Patrice Motsepe has officially begun his second term as Confederation of African Football (CAF) President after unopposed re-election at the 14th CAF Extraordinary General Assembly in Cairo on Wednesday, 12 March, 2025. No one stepped forward to oppose him, so his second term at the helm of the governing body of African football was all but certain, indicating the virtually-unanimity of his support—or lack of effective alternatives—among the CAF electorate. Motsepe, who is 63, first came into office in 2021 after taking over from the politically troubled Ahmad Ahmad, who was suspended by FIFA on corruption charges. Over the past…