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There are indications that the Federal Government’s Naira-for-crude panel will be reconvening a meeting on Monday to consider continuation of the crude sales deal with Dangote Refinery amid petroleum products price uncertainty.

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Amid the controversy surrounding the declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe, has claimed that Governor Siminalayi Fubara never spoke as a governor.
According to Igbokwe, the embattled governor only speaks and behaves like a student union president and not a governor.
A post on his Facebook page reads: “In actions and deeds, Fubara never spoke as a sitting governor. He behaved and spoke like a Student Union President.”

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Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has expressed dissatisfaction with the National Assembly for their approval of the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu.
Obi specifically said, “The parliamentary vote held yesterday clearly demonstrates that democracy, in its true sense, does not exist in Nigeria.”

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Barely 24 hours after a CNG-laden tanker collapsed near Karu Bridge along the Abuja-Keffi Expressway, another fertilizer-laden truck has crashed at the same location.
The accident occurred at about 3:54 PM on Thursday, March 20, 2025, involving a fertilizer truck, a Hijet vehicle, and a dump truck (tipper).
Fortunately, no lives were lost in the incident.

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The Federal High Court, Lokoja, has granted an interim injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from receiving petitions for the purpose of initiating a recall process against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
The push to recall the suspended senator intensified on Thursday, with more groups in Kogi Central throwing their weight behind the process.
However, a group of Ebira indigenes refuted the claim that the recall process was being sponsored and influenced with money by Akpoti-Uduaghan’s political opponents.

Nevertheless, the court, which gave the order on Thursday, also restricted INEC staff, agents, privies, or assigns from accepting or acting on any petition containing fictitious signatures of purported members of the Kogi Central Senatorial District and from conducting any referendum pending the determination of the motion on notice to the same effect.

The court, according to the order paper made available to newsmen on Friday morning, granted the application following an ex-parte application for an interim injunction supported by an affidavit of extreme urgency.

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The Supreme Court has nullified the judgements of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court, which sacked Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
A five-member panel of the apex court on Friday held that the issue of who is the National Secretary of the PDP borders on the internal affairs of a political party, which is not justiciable.

Justice Jamilu Tukur, who delivered the lead judgment of the Supreme Court, consequently struck out the judgment of the trial court delivered in October last year and also set aside the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal, which had in December affirmed the sack of Anyanwu as PDP’s National Secretary.

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Suspected armed herdsmen have reportedly killed two soldiers in Jato-Aka town, Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State.
The armed herders also killed a police officer and two farmers identified as Yenge Kwaghkuga and Bem Adughigbudu in the community.


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Kogi State Police Command has deployed a tactical team to rescue kidnapped passengers of an 18-seater bus along Obajana-Kabba highway in the State.
The Command also said that it deployed additional operational assets to carry out bush combing operations to deny criminal elements safe haven along the route.

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