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M-East war: Cooking gas, deisel prices rise

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*Crude oil prices leap further to $84 per barrel *Dangote refinery, oil marketers adjust prices *Expect more increases, hard times — CPPE *FG should plan to ease sufferings of the masses — OGSPAN *More industries should embrace gas — Coleman NIGERIAN homes, businesses and others are in for harder times following sharp increases in the retail prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, also known as cooking gas; Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, known as diesel, and petrol, as a consequence of the Middle East crisis. Gas price increased to N1,200 per kilogram from N1,000 per kg and diesel, N1,300 per litre from N1,200 per litre, respectively. Also, the price of fuel or Premium Motor Spirit, PMS rose to N939 per litre from N837 per litre, yesterday, and there are fears of it rising above N1,000, if the Middle East crisis lingers. Meanwhile, crude oil price rose to $84 from $75 per barrel last week in the global oil market, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, said that the Straits of Ho...
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We await A’Court judgment on Ibadan convention — PDP Dep Nat’l Publicity scribe

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THE Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Hajiya Farida Umar has said that the judgment of the Federal High court in Ibadan validating the Ibadan PDP convention, which led to the emergence of Taninu Turaki led executive in 2025, shows that the court can be seen as being unbiased aligning with the fact and law that led to organisation of the convention. She noted that what was most important is the Appeal Court judgment, where the party had gone to, urging the justices of the appellate court to do the right thing just as the lower court did. “The most important thing that we are waiting for now at the PDP is  the Appeal Court judgment. We called on the Justices to do the right thing as the Ibadan court has done its own,” she said. She spoke to Vanguard in Lafia,  where she distributed food items, beverages and cash to PDP stakeholders in the 13 wards of Lafia Local Government Area of the state, yesterday, to aid them in breaking the Ramadan ...
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Tinubu to Disu: Restore peace, security

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President Bola Tinubu and wife of the acting Inspector-General of Police, Olufunmilola Olatunji Disu decorating the newly-appointed, Acting Inspector General Police, Olatunji Disu at the Presidential Villa Abuja. •Says ‘you have my support’ •My appointment took me off-guard—Disu •Vows zero tolerance for impunity PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, has charged the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to restore peace and strengthen security nationwide. Tinubu issued the directive at the decoration of Disu as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, following the retirement of Kayode Egbetokun, pending the Nigeria Police Council’s ratification of the appointment and the Senate’s confirmation.  The council will meet next week. But after his decoration as the 23rd indigenous Inspector-General of Police IGP which was barely 48 days to his retirement, the acting IGP, Olatunji Disu, said his appointment took him by surprise but noted that it filled him with gratitude to the President In h...
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How Obi, Oyegun escaped assassination

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•Gunmen storm ADC secretariat, Odigie-Oyegun’s residence •We got intelligence of attack — Odigie-Oyegun •APC, Edo govt deny complicity; ADC, Atiku, Akpata, Owie react  TENSION gripped Benin City, Edo State, yesterday, as 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi; former Governor of Edo State,  John Odigie-Oyegun and other leaders of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, escaped attacks from gunmen.   Few minutes after leaders of the ADC, including Peter Obi received former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the LP Edo 2024 governorship candidate, Olumide Akpata into the party, gunmen attacked the facility at Ogbelaka Street, Off Sokponba Road, Benin City, and the residence of the party’s National Leader,  Odigie-Oyegun. Obi, narrating his ordeal, declared: “It is time to speak up. It is time those in government act. They are not going to be there forever. What they allowed to happen in the country today will take its rev...
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Electoral Act amendment: Reps under pressure to abandon compulsory e-transmission of results

*R eal-time electronic transmission of election results not practicable now — Senate TENSION is rising in the nation’s legislative arena as the two chambers of the National Assembly meet today to take a common position on the method of election result transmission from polling centres to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s result portal. The 24-member committee, made up of 12 each from the Senate and House of Representatives, converge on NASS today to finalise their position on the controversial issue, which almost threw the chambers into chaos last week until the senators summoned an emergency meeting to assuage Nigerians with a slightly different position from what they had earlier adopted. But ahead of the meeting, intense lobbying as to which version of the proposed amendment should be adopted, has begun in earnest, spiking the potential of the lawmakers taking a position dictated by the All Progressives Congress, APC, which controls both chambers of NASS. There was ind...
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Makoko demolitions: Fate of 1,000 schoolchildren hangs

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Recent demolition exercises in some parts of Lagos State, especially Makoko, have not only led to thousands of people being rendered homeless, but many students having no where to continue their education, at least for the time being. According to figures from community leaders and school owners in the community, no fewer than1,000 children have been driven out of their schools, which are mostly private-owned. The area is one of those underserved in terms of education facilities. A school owner, who preferred anonymity, captured the situation thus: “The demolition exercises in Makoko,  Ekun-Agbo and Shogunro communities have forced over 1,000 children to stop school. As I am speaking with you, only 50 out of over 500 in my school resumed. This is because many have relocated, many are homeless now, with many abandoning school due to the trauma of the demolitions.” The tension of the demolition of homes and properties in the Makoko waterfront community and its environs may be going d...
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Electoral Act: Rowdy session as Senate okays conditional e-transmission of results

*Where electronic upload fails, result sheet to be used for collation, declaration  *12-member conference c’ttee to harmonise bill with Reps, submit report Feb 17 *Abaribe moves, withdraws motion  for division, vote *Amaechi leads son to Occupy NASS protest ground *Electoral Act alteration threatens Nigeria’s democracy, ACF warns *Public pressure forced Senate reversal on e-transmission of results —ADC Proceedings in the Senate turned rowdy yesterday as lawmakers rescinded and re-amended provisions of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2026, to accommodate electronic transmission of election results, but without making real-time upload mandatory. The tension followed the Senate’s decision to revisit Clause 60(3) of the bill, barely days after it had rejected a proposal seeking to compel real-time electronic transmission of results from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,’s Result Viewing Portal, IReV. After hours of heated debate, the Senate ...
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