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MARKETERS PROJECT N800/LITRE ASIMPORTED PETROL’S COST DROPS TO ₦‎774/LITRE The price war in the downstream oil sector intensified on Tuesday as major oil marketers moved to offer a lower price against the gantry loading cost of N825 per litre set by Dangote Petroleum Refinery. This development followed a revelation by marketers that the landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) …

CANADA WILL CUT OFF ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO U.S – PREMIER WARNS 🇺🇸 President Donald Trump may have delayed most – though not all – of the tariffs he had imposed on Canada and Mexico, but that hasn’t stopped America’s northern neighbors from responding forcefully in retaliation. Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a press conference that he would move forward with …

SDP NATIONAL SECRETARY, OLU AGUNLOYE , PETITIONS IGP OVER ‘PLOT’ TO REMOVE HIM Olu Agunloye, the national secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has petitioned Kayode Egbetokun, the inspector-general of police, over an alleged plot to force him to resign, TheCable can report. Sources told TheCable that members of the SDP loyal to Nasir el-Rufai, the former governor of …

WHAT NATASHA TOLD UN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, told the United Nations Inter-Parliamentary Union on Tuesday that she had been illegally suspended by the Nigerian Senate. Natasha, who accused the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, of sexual harassment, was recently handed a six-month suspension over her alleged conduct in the Red Chamber. …

SENATOR NATASHA AKPOTI REPORTS HER SUSPENSION TO UN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION It appears the controversy over the allegations by Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill and her suspension from the Red Chamber may not be getting off the news anytime soon. This is because the suspended Kogi Senator on Tuesday took her case to a global stage. At the …

FG BEHIND CRISES IN PDP, LP, NNPP – EL-RUFAI The Presidency and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday clashed again over allegation that the Federal Government is behind the internal crises and litany of litigations rocking the opposition parties in the country. El-Rufai made the claim when he visited the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party in Abuja. A …

I WILL IMPLEMENT SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT IN FULL – GOVERNOR FUBARA Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has assured that his administration will implement, to its fullest, the recent judgement of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the political crisis in the state. The governor maintained that what is important, in all of the happenings that had been witnessed, has been …

TINUBU ADDRESSES RIVERS POLITICAL CRISIS, ADVISES FUBARA TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS, RESPECT RULE OF LAW President Bola Tinubu has addressed the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State, revealing his efforts to restore peace both privately and publicly.. Speaking to leaders of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) on Tuesday in the presidential villa in Abuja, Tinubu said he had foreseen the …

DON’T REPEAT 2015 MISTAKE – GALADIMA, RULES OUT NNPP, PDP, LP MERGER A prominent stakeholder in the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has dismissed speculations of a possible merger between opposition parties, insisting that only individuals, not political parties, can come together to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking on the current political realignments, Galadima ruled …

EL-RUFAI’S DEFECTION: MORE BIGWIGS TO LEAVE APC There are indications that more high-profile politicians have concluded plans to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP) following former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The National Chairman of the SDP, Shehu Musa Gabam, gave this hint in a chat, while reacting to El-Rufai’s defection. Gabam …