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The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has clarified that electricity consumers who get free prepaid meters will have up to 10 years to repay the cost. Adelabu’s statement contradicts claims that customers who pay for meters would be refunded through energy credit. Speaking recently in Ibadan, the minister, who acknowledged that the cost of meters had been on the increase, said funding was a major challenge. According to Adelabu, the Federal Government would fund the meter procurement through different initiatives while the customers pay back over time. “We can get funding for this meter and allow the customers to pay…

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George advised ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar to wait until 2031 if he is desperate to run for President again. George, in a statement on Wednesday, said power would not return to the North, where Atiku is from, until 2031. But George, in his statement, argued that after the eight years of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari in power, the South must also complete eight years before power can return to the North in 2031. Recently, reports have surfaced of Atiku and other northern political leaders working to shift power back to…

A 56-year-old Islamic cleric based in Ajasse-Cotonou in the Benin Republic, Alfa Yahya Nafiu, has confirmed that his wife delivered 11 babies in Nigeria’s neighbouring country between July and August this year. Yahya, an indigene of Onikeke compound, Popo Giwa area, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, said his wife, whose name was given as Chognika Latoyossi Alake, a native of Ajasse-Cotonou, gave birth to the 11 babies in a traditional birth attendant’s home in Porto Novo in Benin Republic between July 7 and August 14, 2024. He however lamented that two of the 11 children were lost at birth leaving the…

The proposed meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities was rescheduled from Monday till Wednesday, August 28. A highly placed source within the National Executive Council of ASUU told our correspondent on Monday that: “Our meeting with the Federal Government will now hold on August 28.” Public university lecturers, following resolutions reached at the union’s National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Ibadan on August 19, 2024, threatened to go on a nationwide strike over the Federal Government’s failure to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement. ASUU’s demands include improvements in varsity workers’ welfare,…

The Federal Government has also vowed to shut down filling stations that is caught dispensing PMS at exorbitant rates. It declared this through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, stressing that it was not in the interest of Nigerians for marketers to profiteer in the sales of PMS. Although, independent oil marketers claimed that they’ve been buying petrol from private depot owners for as high as N850/litre since last week and that this was why the pump prices were high, the spokesperson of the NMDPRA, George Ene-Ita, argued that the petrol price reports that the regulator gets from…

By Jimmy Fatunbi President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Monday, for the first time, physically met with former Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Mike Igini. The duo met at the ongoing 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Lagos. Igini, while exchanging pleasantries with Akpabio noted, ” this is the first I am physically meeting with the President of the Senate, we have only been seeing on Television.” Akpabio also admitted that he has never seen the former INEC chief physically till today. It would be recalled that Igini presided over the 2019 elections…

There are indications that the Federal Government’s committee which was set up to ensure the implementation of crude oil sales to local refineries in naira will further discuss the pricing of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, to be released by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery next month. Multiple officials, both among oil marketers and members of the Implementation Committee on crude oil sales in naira, under the leadership of the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, confirmed that the panel would be holding a series of meetings this week and in coming weeks on the…

By Jimmy Fatunbi Founder of Tingo Group, Mr Dozy Mmobuosi, has denied allegations of wrongdoing, saying that the false narratives of infraction against him and his business interests are baseless, unfounded and deliberate attempt by certain powers in the West and in Nigeria for selfish reasons. Mmobuosi stated this on Saturday during a press conference at the Tingo House on Victoria Island, Lagos, In the press briefing titled: “My Battles with Western Powers: Setting the Record Straight”, Mmobuosi told journalists about the circumstances leading to the accusations against him. According to Mmobuosi, his decision to invest in the beverage and…

By Jimmy Fatunbi Founder of Tingo Group, Mr Dozy Mmobuosi, has denied allegations of floating Dozie stocks to defraud shareholders, saying that the false narratives against him and his business interests are baseless, unfounded and deliberate attempt by certain Western powers for selfish reasons. Mmobuosi stated this on Saturday during a press conference at the Tingo House on Victoria Island, Lagos, In the press briefing titled: “My Battles with Western Powers: Setting the Record Straight”, Mmobuosi told journalists about the circumstances leading to the accusations against him. According to Mmobuosi, his decision to invest in the beverage and telecom industries,…

Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested an investigative journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka. Soyinka, who is the Regional Editor of The Conversation Africa, was arrested at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday. A distress message sent to The PUNCH by one of his friends stated that Soyinka was picked up shortly after arriving from the United Kingdom. The friend in the message said no reason was given for his arrest and Soyinka had been held incommunicado. The message read, “Adejuwon Soyinka has been detained by officers of the Department of State Security at the Muritala Muhammed…