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The Federal Government has increased the price of petroleum from N86.50 to a maximum of N145 per litre. The 80% increase was announced to State House reporters yesterday by the minister of State for Petroleum Ibe Kachikwu.  The minister said the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) had been mandated to ensure strict regulatory compliance including dealing decisively with anyone involved in hoarding petrol. Kachikwu said the decision to increase the fuel price was arrived at a meeting of various stakeholders presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House, Abuja, yesterday. He said the meeting was attended by the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly, the Nigeria Governors Forum, and the labour unions including the NLC, TUC, NUPENG and PENGASSAN. The minister said: “The meeting reviewed: 1. The current fuel scarcity and supply difficulties in the country. 2. The exorb...

Lagos state, the melting point of Nigeria has finally joined the league oil-producing state,following the discovery of oil in large quantity in Lagos by an indigenous oil producing company. With this discovery, the state will join other states that get 13 percent derivation from the federation account. Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited (YFP), a wholly-owned indigenous firm and operator of the OML 113 offshore Lagos, had put the state on the list, when it announced on Tuesday, the commencement of production of crude oil from the field. The discovery of came 25 years after the company was awarded an oil prospecting licence, Tunde Folawiyo, YFP chairman, was quoted to have said. He also said: “The attainment of this milestone is indeed a laudable achievement not just for the YFP, but for the Nigerian oil and gas industry as a whole and indeed Lagos State, which can now be addressed as an oil-producing state. “We are very proud of and appreciate the efforts...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resource, Ibe Kachikwu. Minister of State for Petroleum Ibe Kachikwu told State House journalists Wednesday evening that fuel is now N145 per litre from today. Details later...

An Indian couple in their 70s welcomed their first baby into the world on April 19 with the help of a fertility treatment. “It was very important for us,” 72-year-old Daljinder Kaur told Barcroft Media following her son’s birth. “I can live happily now. My life is complete.” Kaur and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder Singh Gill — who have been married for 47 years — have been trying to conceive for two years. They regularly traveled six hours from their home in Amritsar, Punjab, to the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre, where Kaur endured multiple rounds of in vitro fertilization, a procedure that manually combines an egg and sperm to create an embryo that is inserted back in the uterus. “I first tried to avoid the case because she was very weak, but then her medical reports were normal and she was fit to conceive,” said Anurag Bishnoi, who runs the fertility clinic. And Kaur and Gill aren’t just beating the odds when it comes to having a child at their age: ...

First it was the dailymail.co.uk, with the headline Awkward! Nigerian leader whose country was branded ‘fantastically corrupt’ by Cameron arrives for London summit – and demands we give their money back The online medium said the Nigerian president demanded action from David Cameron rather than an apology after the Prime Minister branded his country ‘fantastically corrupt’. According to the medium, Muhammadu Buhari made his frustration clear as he addressed a Commonwealth conference in London this  Wednesday in the wake of Mr Cameron’s toe-curling gaffe. Clutching a glass as he made small talk with the Queen at a Buckingham Palace reception, the PM was caught on camera being indiscreet about the countries he had invited to a key anti-corruption summit tomorrow. Aides to Mr Buhari, who has mounted a high-profile battle against corruption, expressed ‘shock’ at the unguarded comment. The Sun The Sun of London caption the comment from Buhari this way Yes ...

President Muhammadu Buhari says he does not need an apology from British Prime Minister David Cameron for describing Nigeria as "fantastically corrupt". BBC news monitored quoted President Buhari as stating Wednesday at a question session in London that what he was demanding was the repatriation of Nigeria's stolen assets.  President Buhari is currently attending the anti-corruption summit holding in London. "No. I am not going to be demanding any apology from anybody. What I will be demanding is the return of assets.  "I've already mentioned how disgraceful one of Nigeria's executives was. He had to dress like a woman to leave Britain and left behind his bank account and fixed assets which Britain is prepared to hand over to us.  "This is what I am asking for. What will I do with an apology? I need something tangible," President Buhari said.   The British Prime Minister was on Tuesday caught on c...

British Prime Minister, David Cameron British Newspaper, The Guardian , has replied British Prime Minister, David Cameron on his comment about 'fantastically corrupt' Nigeria and Afghanistan.  In its editorial , the newspaper said he 'is guilty of epic hypocrisy.' Below is the Editorial: There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred to as a spade, so let us speak plainly. A summit on corruption will be held on Thursday in a city that is internationally recognised (by the IMF, among others) as a tax haven. It is being hosted by a politician who admitted last month that he has personally profited from offshore finance and whose party is bankrolled by an industry that makes extravagant use of those same tax havens. Not only that, he has intervened to aid tax avoiders . That’s right, David Cameron is holding a meeting on corruption. The prime minister is not personally corrupt – but he is certainly guilty of epic hypo...