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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...

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 ...