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NLC Blames Government Policy Shifts for NNPC-Dangote Conflict

By Hussein Olanrewaju Joe Ajearo, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has openly criticized the ongoing clash between the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, attributing the turmoil to alleged government policy inconsistencies and fraudulent activities by certain vested interests. Speaking to journalists at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal…

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NECA: Crude-for-Naira Deal to Ease Forex Pressure

By Hussein Olanrewaju The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has praised the recent agreement between the Federal Government and Dangote Refineries regarding the sale of Premium Motor Spirit to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC). NECA believes this deal could end petrol scarcity and reduce the pressure on foreign exchange demand in the country. In…

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Israeli academia is directly complicit in the crimes of the state

“Politics should be kept out of academia!” This is how many in Western academia respond to calls from fellow professors and students for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions over their complicity in the country’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory, oppression of Palestinian people, and the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. They claim that universities…

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Petrol crisis: Trucks stranded at depots as NNPCL, Dangote tango over pricing

Market forces will create crisis, OPS warns NNPCL Oil marketers have yet to commence the loading of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, despite assurances by the Federal Government that the commodity will be available this weekend. Saturday PUNCH gathered that though some PMS vessels had arrived in the country at the NNPC’s Apapa and Port…

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