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The Petroleum Products Prices Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has been urged by the House of Representatives on Tuesday to review the current price template for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) with a view to reducing the price to N70. This followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Rep. Abubaker Fulata titled “Urgent Need to Review the Petroleum Price Template”. Moving the motion, Fulata expressed dismay over the circulating rumour of a possible hike in the price of petrol in the country. Although the rumour was denied by the Federal Ministry of…

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National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Enugu state command, has pleaded with the state government to subsidize the feeding of the corps members in view of the increasing population of the members. The state coordinator of NYSC, Mrs. Nwano Ukagha also said that despite all the assistance the state has been giving the command, it is constrained to plead for more assistance, especially in provision of facilities at the orientation camp. The command made the request during the swearing-in ceremony of the 2016 ‘B’ corps members at the state orientation camp…

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An executive Director of Dangote Group, Hajiya Halima Dangote has disclosed that the Group is ready to support the Federal Government and Kano State in exploring key sectors of the economy to cushion the effect of the recession among Nigerians. The Group said in a statement on Monday in Abuja, that it would explore opportunities opening up in agriculture, mining and infrastructure, through partnership with the levels of government. Hajiya Halima Dangote, made the pledge at Dangote Special Day ceremony at the Kano International Trade Fair in Kano. The executive…

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Former Biafran policemen, who were pardoned in 2000 by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, would soon get their pension and gratuities. The former Biafran policemen will get pension 46 years after the civil war ended in January 1970. The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) which begins pensioners’ verification in northeast on Monday, would pay the pension and gratuities after the verification of the ex-policemen. PTAD said it had enrolled about 220,000 pensioners and uncovered 9,000 ghost payees, its Executive Secretary Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor, said on Sunday. She however said three former employees…

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N1.3 billion worth of food items and relief materials has been donated to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees in the North-East within the past five months by Dangote Foundation. Ms Zouera Youssoufou, Dangote Foundation Chief Executive, said in a statement that about 106 trailer loads of basic necessities were provided in its fresh humanitarian intervention which began in July. The statement quoted Youssoufou as saying at the flag off of food distribution in Yobe State that IDP camps in 32 communities benefitted from the donation. She expressed the Foundation’s…

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Chief Joseph Achuzia, fo mer Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, and Biafran warlord, has called on the Federal Government and relevant authorities to immediately come to the aid of Oko community, where he said gully erosion is about sweeping away the house of the former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme. Speaking in Asaba yesterday, Achuzia lamented that despite the fact that  Ekwueme had sufficiently drawn the attention of the Federal Government to the threat, nothing positive had been done to save the situation. According to him, “I was with…

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