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January 5, 2024

January 5, 2024 IFMNEWS

‘No Plan To Increase Fuel Price,’ IPMAN, NNPCL Warn Against Panic Buying

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has denied having any disputes with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL over a possible hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol.

The clarifications followed reports that fuel marketers had clashed with the NNPCL over the payment of subsidy and increment of fuel to 1,200 Naira per litre.

In a monitored interview, the National Vice President, IPMAN, Hammed Fashola said his association had not engaged the NNPCL in any discussion, either on petrol subsidy removal or price adjustment.

He, however, lamented the challenges that the marketers encounter at the depots.

Fashola appealed to the NNPCL to expand their operations at the depots to boost availability of products to the marketers.

The NNPC also denied having any rift with the marketers on the matter, with its spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye insisting that subsidy had been entirely removed on petrol.

January 5, 2024

January 5, 2024 IFMNEWS

Tinubu Appoints 6 New Executive Directors For NPA, NIMASA

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of six new executive directors for two agencies under the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy; the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).

Those appointed as NPA executive directors include Vivian Edet (Finance and Administration) and Olalekan Badmus (Marine & Operations).

While the appointees at NIMASA are Jibril Abba (Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services) and Chudi Offodile (Finance and Administration).

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale announced their appointments in a statement.

Ngelale explained that Tinubu believes that the appointees would use their “collective mandate to create the conditions required to significantly raise the contribution of the Marine and Blue Economy sector to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

January 5, 2024

January 5, 2024 IFMNEWS

Certificate Racketeering: Why Reporter Breached Our System, Got Mobilised Twice – NYSC

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has promised to avoid a recurrence of system breach which allowed double enrolment in certificate racketeering scandal.

An undercover reporter, Audu Umar had detailed how he bagged a four-year degree in under two years and later got mobilised for the NYSC scheme even though he served earlier.

Speaking on the viral report, spokesman of the NYSC Eddy Megwa explained that the reporter used different phone numbers and email addresses to beat the system.

He noted that while the system initially rejected him application, because he had served in the scheme before, he manage to beat the system because he was out for a particular purpose.

He noted that NYSC does not have a database of graduates to serve in the scheme and only rely on the lists sent by the senates of the various universities stating the number of graduates to expect from them.

Megwa said the NYSC is looking at the situation and ensure that it does not happen again.

January 5, 2024

January 5, 2024 IFMNEWS

Public Office Ban: Buhari’s Ex-Minister, Tallen, Appeals Judgment

Former Minister of Women Affairs, in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, Pauline Tallen, has approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja, seeking to set aside the judgment of an FCT high court which barred her from holding public office.

Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court had on Dec. 18 barred Tallen in a case filed against her by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) over her alleged “disparaging” comment against an earlier court judgement.

In a Notice of Appeal filled through her lawyer, JK Gadzama, she formulated 13 grounds of appeal against the trial court’s decision.

She also prayed the appellate court to, among other reliefs, dismiss the suit and set aside the decision of the court.

Tallen’s battle with the NBA began when she, as the serving Minister of Women Affairs, criticized the nullification of Senator Aisha Dahiru’s initially declared victory at the Adamawa governorship polls.

While Justice Abdulaziz Anka, nullified Dahiry’s victory on account of non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2022, Nigeria’s constitution, and the APC’s guidelines, Tallen had described the ruling as a Kangaroo judgment, whose aim was the marginalization of women in Nigerian politics.

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