Today's Headlines: Sacking You Won’t Lead To Anarchy—LP To Tinubu, NNPCL Increases Petrol Pump Price
Sacking You Won’t Lead To Anarchy—LP Replies Tinubu
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The Labour Party (LP) has replied a recent comment credited to President Bola Tinubu, where he reportedly warned the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that sacking him from office for not attaining 25 percent votes in the FCT could lead to anarchy.
The opposition party in a statement by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, told President Tinubu that “if there were no absurdity, chaos, and anarchy when they (APC) forced their way into power, Nigeria will still witness peace when they are eventually evicted from power.”
LP also condemned the leak of the president’s final written address against its petition to the media, insisting that the address to the tribunal was meant to be in the exclusive custody of the court.
NNPCL increases petrol pump price to N617
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Federal Government owned NNPC Limited on Tuesday morning jerked up its petrol pump price to N617 per litre from N537 in Abuja.
The national oil company has not given any reason for the latest price increase following the deregulation of the downstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
With NNPC Limited taking the lead, most marketers which opened earlier dispensing at the old hurriedly shut their stations to adjust their pumps to the new price.
President Bola Tinubu had on May 29, during his inauguration speech said there was no budget to continue the payment of subsidies on petrol. The pronouncements led to the hike in petrol price from N195 per litre to N537.
Adeleke To Swear In Commissioners Wednesday
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The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, will on Wednesday (tomorrow), swears in his newly appointed commissioners.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Chief of Staff to Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former governor of Osun State, Festus Adeyemo, and two commissioners that served in the state cabinet during the tenure of ex-governor, Rauf Aregbesola, alongside 22 others were unveiled as commissioner-nominees by the State House of Assembly.
The Speaker, Adewale Egbedun, read the names as contained in the letter sent to the lawmakers by Adeleke at the plenary on July 7.
The two members of Aregbesola’s cabinet that made the list are Kolapo Alimi, who served as commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and Mr. Biyi Odunlade, who was Special Adviser and later commissioner for Sports.
Adeyemo, who is from Irewole Local Government Area, served as Chief of Staff to Oyinlola at the twilight of his administration, when the man that occupied the post in 2003, Dr Peter Babalola, left the cabinet in pursuit of governorship ambition.
Also listed is the widow of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, the elder brother of the incumbent governor, Mrs Folashade Adeleke.
Anambra: Police arrest 11 suspects for rape, defilement in one week
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The Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Mr Aderemi Adeoye, said the command has arrested and detained 11 suspects in various cases of rape and defilement reported in the last one week.
In a statement issued on Monday in Awka by DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the police spokesman, the CP decried the rate of moral decadence in the society.
He urged parents to pay greater attention to things their children were exposed to.
“On July 11, an obscene video clip that went viral showed a young lady, aged 19, being gang raped by a group of boys. Investigation revealed that the incident happened at Orama-etiti, Anam in Anambra West Local Government Area.
“The police at Otuocha collaborated with the local vigilance group in the area to arrest six suspects involved in the criminal act.
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