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The lowest price the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited can sell Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, to marketers, assuming there is no subsidy, is N400/litre, it has been learnt. Oil marketers, who made the…

Economist expert Muda Yusuf has emphasised the need for reforms and interventions to address some sectors of the economy with declining and contracting gross domestic product (GDP) figures in the third quarter of the year. Mr Yusuf said…

Lagos gubernatorial election campaign has taken a rather hilarious turn after latex condoms branded in Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s picture surfaced on the streets and social media. The condoms, which also carried the stamp of the…

Police in Belgium have sealed off part of the country’s capital city of Brussel after violence erupted following the country’s shocking 2-0 loss to Morocco Sunday evening. The Devils were stunned in their penultimate Group F game at the…

Aliko Dangote, Dangote Group chairman, says his company’s investment in the sugar sub-sector will help provide no fewer than 300,000 jobs in Nigeria. According to a statement by the group, Mr Dangote said the company was providing fresh…

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State Party immediately ordered the freezing of the state’s accounts in banks and other financial institutions after his swearing-in as the sixth president. Mr Adeleke directed an immediate return to…

The media team of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has stated that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress does not appreciate facts and figures used by opponents in place of mere rhetoric. The…

Lecturers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, on Friday staged a peaceful protest at the institution’s Mini Campus over withheld salaries. The union members staged the…

Out-going governor of Osun, Gboyega Oyetola, says he left N14 billion in the state’s coffers for his successor, Senator Ademola Adeleke. This is as the state owes serving and retired workers a humongous backlog in salaries, pensions and…

Costa Rica stunned Japan 1-0 thanks to a late goal at the World Cup on Sunday to blow Group E wide open and hand a potential lifeline to Germany. Japan, who shocked four-time champions Germany 2-1 in their opener in Qatar, could have…