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In this interaction with a cross-section of journalists in Abuja, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene,  former Deputy Chairman, Media & Public Affairs in the House of Representatives (2021-2015) and currently, Chairman, Network for Best Practice and Integrity in Leadership (NEBPRIL), an NGO, dissects the current hike in PMS and the National Assembly’s response, among other  issues. A lot of Nigerians are ...

Protests have continued to trail the recent hike in pump price of petrol, electricity tariff and others as youths, most of them students, stormed major streets in Lagos, Osun, Oyo and Ondo states, yesterday, demanding the reversal of the policy. The protests organised by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D caused tension as the students gathered in their ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the patently unfair and arbitrary hike in electricity tariff and fuel price by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is unjust to many people living in extreme poverty, and entirely incompatible with the Nigerian Constitution of 1999 [as amended] and the country’s international human rights obligations.” Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP deputy director ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Njide has lived in Kagara, the headquarters of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, for over 10 years. She is a young woman who dreads to hurt even a fly. But, sometimes, it is what one dislikes or fears that one is confronted with. Recently, insecurity forced her to relocate to Minna, the capital of Niger State, ...

A coalition of northern groups on Friday rejected the recent increase in the ex-depot price of petrol and electricity tariff by the Federal Government. The Groups also said the masses had tolerated the present administration for too long. They are demanding the immediate and unconditional reversal of the new pump price to the initial N145 per litre and electricity tariff ...

Members of the Coalition for Civil Societies in Osun State Friday morning protested against the hike in electricity tariff and petrol price. The protesters took off from Freedom Park, Osogbo around 8:30 am. The protesters displayed placards showing their displeasure over the increase in electricity tariff and petrol price. The protesters lamented that “approval of new electricity tariff and increment ...

Fuel marketers across the country adjusted their pump prices on Thursday to between N158 and N162 per litre of petrol, saying a further increase in global crude oil prices would push the pump price of petrol higher. Petrol prices have increased for three straight months, rising from N121.50–N123.50 per litre in June to N140.80-N143.80 in July, N148-N150 in August and ...

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) has increased the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, to N151.56 per litre from N138.62 per litre. The PPMC is a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and currently imports almost all of Nigeria’s petrol. According to an internal memo made available to marketers and other stakeholders, the new ...