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The average price of petrol for August 2017 was N144.4.

The Council said the performance this year represented 1.11 per cent improvement in candidates’ performance compared with the 2016 results.

PREMIUM TIMES findings in some communities in Warri Southwest LGA show thousands living in abject poverty despite sitting on liquid wealth.

The latest payment is the second tranche of the refunds to the states.

A housing scheme meant to bring succour to Redeemed Church members in Abuja is now a source of bitterness and internal wrangling.

“I need a better budget as a tool to do my work and that is why l am speaking out,” the minister said.

The government is to demand 70 per cent of the money go to workers and pensioners, up from 50 per cent of the first tranche.

Nigeria was ranked 55 of 89 countries in terms of transparency of its extractive sector.

The mobile telecom operator, Nigeria’s fourth largest, is enmeshed in a debt crisis.

The appropriation bill was submitted to the acting president on May 17, after it was passed by the National Assembly on May 11.

The kidnap kingpin owns multi-million naira houses in Lagos, Accra, the police said.

The Acting President wrote the two chambers of the National Assembly for permission for the loan.

The increase represents an increase of N1.8 trillion.

The bill will go to the House of Reps for concurrence before seeking presidential assent.

While pilgrims were allowed to exchange N197 to a dollar last year, the official exchange rate this year is N307 to a dollar.

The bill still has to go through the House of Representatives and the president to be law.

Premium Times exclusively reported the lopsided appointment by the security service.

Unlike the petroleum minister, the EFCC wants the block to return to the Nigerian government.

Other states with high foreign debts include Kaduna, Edo, Cross River and Ogun.

The highest value for the Pounds Sterling was on Wednesday April 19.

Kano State got the highest allocation of 6,602 seats, while Imo State got the lowest allocation with 47 seats.

Abdulmumini Jibrin, who is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, says the president’s ill health has badly affected governance.