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1. President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, announced this in a statement on Tuesday.
2. President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, in Abuja, said that the stability of the country is of paramount interest to him and that the Federal Government will continue to work towards it despite the actions of a few people. Buhari said this while receiving a delegation of Borno/Yobe Elders Forum on a courtesy call.
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Fuel marketers have started adjusting their petrol pump prices amid the supply shortage facing private depots in Apapa.
Our correspondent observed that some filling stations in Lagos and Ogun states increased the pump price of petrol to N170 per litre on Tuesday from N162 per litre.
Some of the stations were Capital Oil and Gas, Fatgbems and Amo Oil, all along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Another station, Enyo Retail, adjusted its pump price to N165 per litre from N162.
The National Operation Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr Mike Osatuyi, told our correspondent that members of his association had to increase the pump price because they bought the product at N160-N161 from depot owners.
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Leke Baiyewu, Abuja
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Thursday criticised the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Melee Kyari, and heads of the corporation’s subsidiaries for failing to appear before it.
The committee said it was the 10th time the officials would write to defer their appearance at its investigative hearing on the audit queries issued against them by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, including unaccounted proceed of oil sales amounting to about N3.9tn.
The subsidiaries with queries against them include the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited, Petroleum Products Marketing Company Limited, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and the NNPC Retail Limited.
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Leke Baiyewu, Abuja
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, on Thursday, strongly criticised the failure by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, and heads of the corporation’s subsidiaries to appear before it.
The committee decried that it was the tenth time the officials would write to defer their appearance at its investigative hearing on the audit queries issued against them by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, including unaccounted proceed of oil sales amounting to about N3.9tn.
Those with queries against them are the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited, Petroleum Products Marketing Company Limited, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, NNPC Retail Limited, National Petroleum Investment & Management Services, National Petroleum Exchange, Nigerian Gas Company, NNPC Pension Limited, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, Warri Refining and
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