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Senate raised questions over $1.5 billion approved in 2021 for the turn-around maintenance of the PH refinery

Daily Dispatch August 8, 2024

The Senate has raised questions over $1.5 billion approved in 2021 for the turn-around maintenance of the Port Harcourt Refinery with little or no result, amid pervasive allegations of sabotage in the petroleum industry. Consequently, the upper chamber lamented that it was unfair and wrong to

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Just In: Uba Sani relaxes 24-hour curfew in Kaduna, Zaria

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2024

Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed in the state to checkmate the breakdown of law and order during the #EndBadGovernance protest. In a statement on Wednesday, Samuel Aruwan, the overseeing commissioner for ministry of internal security and home affairs in Kaduna, said the curfew has been reviewed to be from […]

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Why I remove fuel subsidy – Tinubu

Daily Dispatch August 4, 2024

President Bola Tinubu has disclosed the reason behind the removal of fuel subsidy in the country. The Conclave recalls that Tinubu, on inauguration day, May 29, 2023, announced the removal of subsidy on petroleum products. “Subsidy is gone,” Tinubu declared during his inaugural address at Eagle Square in Abuja, shortly after he was sworn in […]

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Kyari denies operating any refinery outside Nigeria

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2024

Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Mr Mele Kyari, has replied the chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote who accused the Corporation of running a blending refinery in Malta. Kyari, in a series of tweets on Tuesday, said he has been inundated by calls from families and friends since the trending […]

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Breaking: Wanted drug baron arrested in village mansion as NDLEA recovers meth, precursors, guns

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2024

…Raids Imo, Port Harcourt operational bases, nabs associate A major drug cartel behind the production and distribution of deadly psychoactive substance, methamphetamine, popularly called ‘mkpuru mmiri’ has been taken down by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, following the arrest of the leader of the syndicate, 42-year-old Joachin Chikaodi

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Akpabio Gives Condition That Will Make Senate Approve New Presidential Jet

Daily Dispatch June 27, 2024

Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Thursday stated that if there is a need for the purchase of a presidential jet for the use of President Bola Tinubu, the lawmakers won’t hesitate to approve it. Akpabio emphasized that the Senate would approve things that benefit the Nigerian people and would also take cognizance of the duties of the […]