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Fuel marketers flout FG s directive, adopt different prices NEWS

Views: 263 Despite assurances from the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at the weekend that the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol, has not changed, some recalcitrant marketers across the country are stilling selling above the approved retail price of N162/N165. Investigations on Sunday showed that some filling stations in Irrua and Ekpoma both in Edo State and Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom State sold a litre of petrol at N212.37 and N175 per litre respectively. At a Danco filling station in Ekiadolor, in the outskirt of Benin, it was long queues of vehicles as petrol sold for N168 per litre. 

Group tasks FG on concessioning of Calabar-Itu highway

Buhari. Photo: TWITTER/NIGERIAGOVThe Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has charged the Federal Government to include the dilapidated Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene highway among federal roads the Federal Ministry of Works recently slated for concessioning. Its Chairman in Akwa Ibom State, Franklin Isong, stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Uyo yesterday, saying the call became necessary as the National Assembly had failed to make adequate budgetary provision for the highway since the contract for its reconstruction was awarded. x He said the road had been politicised and had become a death trap, wondering why federal roads in Akwa Ibom State were left in such a state of dilapidation and neglect, even as the state was contributing the highest amount to the Federation’s Account.

MASSOB, CLO, HURIWA tackle Uzodimma over invitation of military to Orlu

Hope Uzodimma. Photo; TWITTER/HOPEUZODINMA1 The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), yesterday, said Governor Hope Uzodimma had disappointed the Ndigbo for inviting the military to Orlu community in Imo State. The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in the South-East also chided the governor for the approval of military operations in Orlu, stressing that his action was a clear indication of a leader “who doesn’t feel the pulse of his people to know their feelings and needs.” Uzodimma had on Tuesday in Abuja said that his decision to invite the military to quell the crisis in Orlu was to avert a repeat of the scenario that played out during the recent #ENDSARS protests.

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