LAGOS PROBES DEATH OF A LADY KILLED BY OVERHEAD WATER TANK The Lagos State Government has announced plans to launch an investigation into the tragic death of 30-year-old Cynthia Oguzie, who was reportedly killed when an overhead water tank collapsed onto her apartment in the Lekki area of the state. The spokesperson for the Lagos State Safety Commission, Adewunmi Okoh, …

DANGOTE REFINERY SLASHES PETROL PRICE TO ₦865 As exclusively predicted by The PUNCH, the Dangote refinery has informed marketers and its customers of a downward review of its ex-gantry loading cost to N865 per litre. The new price is a reduction of N15 from N880 per litre sold by the facility on Wednesday. Our correspondent gathered that the refinery informed …

US FORMER FIRST LADY, MICHELLE, SPEAKS ON RUMOURED DIVORCE WITH BARACK OBAMA Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. Michelle also claimed that it was time for her to start asking tough questions. According to her, women “struggle with disappointing people.” “They couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice …

FG STOPS ACTING VCS, RECTORS, PROVOST’S FROM CONTESTING SUBSTANTIVE POSITIONS Following recent crisis which trailed appointment of institutional heads in certain public universities and other tertiary institutions nationwide, the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Alausa, on Thursday approved the implementation of a guiding policy on eligibility for the appointment of Vice Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts. The policy, which was announced …

CRUDE OIL PRICE CRASHES, PUTS 2025 FG REVENUE TARGET IN JEOPARDY THE price of Bonny Light, Nigeria’s premium oil grade, yesterday, dropped by 5.09 percent to $59.62 per barrel in the global market at the backdrop of the on-going ripples created by the tariff war that has followed the series of tariff hikes announced by the United States of America …

NATASHA AKPOTI: LESSONS FOR POLITICIANS Politicians have a lot to learn from the embattled senator representing Kogi central senatorial district, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE In just few weeks, the senator representing Kogi central senatorial zone, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has assumed a somewhat mixed image in the minds of people. That comes from a cocktail of characters either expressed herself or …

‘FROM ICU TO MORGUE – PDP SPOKESPERSON QUITS, DUMPS OPPOSITION PARTY The spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, Kennedy Peretei, has announced his resignation from the party.In his resignation letter addressed to the party’s chairman of Arogbo Ward I in the Ese-Odo Local Government Area on Wednesday, Mr. Peretei expressed his belief that the PDP is …

PRESIDENCY RELEASES LIST OF TINUBU’S APPOINTMENTS TO DATE WITH GBAJABIAMILA MISSING The Presidency, through Sunday Dare, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, has provided a list of the President’s appointments to date as it tries to defend alleged lopsided appointments. In the list, South West has 29 appointees of the President as against 24 stated by Dare. …

POVERTY IN NIGERIA ASSUMES WORSE DIMENSION – PETER OBI Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, says the poverty in the land has assumed a worse dimension such that those offering him things in the past now beg him for assistance. Speaking at the National Executives Committee (NEC) meeting and expanded stakeholders’ summit of his party at Transcorp …

65% TANK FARMS DORMANT DUE TO FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL As the battle to control market share in the downstream sector rages on, no fewer than 70 tank farm owners have been compelled to cease operations in the past two years, leaving their facilities abandoned and idle as retailers and station owners increasingly avoid utilising their services. These dormant tank farms, …

FEC ORDERS FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF NAIRA-FOR-CRUDE DEAL The Federal Executive Council has officially directed the full implementation of the suspended Naira-for-Crude agreement with local refiners. The Ministry of Finance disclosed this on its official X handle titled “Update on the Crude and Refined Product Sales in Naira Initiative,” on Wednesday. Recall that the first phase of the six-month deal involving …

ELEVEN PDP GOVERNORS IN SUPREME COURT OVER RIVERS EMERGENCY RULE Eleven Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have approached the Supreme Court challenging what powers the president has to suspend the democratically elected Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara. The suit filed by the Governors also challenged the declaration of Emergency rule in Rivers State. While the media previously …

SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT CTC SACKED ABURE – ALEX OTTI, SUBMITS REPORT TO INEC Supporters of the Labour Party (LP), led by Senator Esther Nenadi Usman’s National Caretaker Committee, erupted in celebration on Wednesday following the release of the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Supreme Court judgment on the party’s leadership dispute. Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, took center stage …

NIGER REPUBLIC ADOPTS HAUSA AS NATIONAL LANGUAGE, DUMP FRENCH Niger Republic military-led government has declared Hausa as the country’s new national language, replacing French, in another decisive step away from its former colonial power, France. The national language is Hausa” while “the working languages are English and French,” the junta stated in a new charter published on March 31 in …

BANDITS HAVE TAKEN OVER 64 COMMUNITIES IN PLATEAU – GOV MUFTWANG Governor Caleb Muftwang of Plateau State has raised the alarm over the high wave of insecurity, lamenting that bandits have taken over 64 communities in his state. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Mutfwang blamed unnamed terrorist groups for wreaking havoc in Plateau. He also alleged …