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According to the National Bureau Statistics (NBS), a whooping 5.32 billion liters of petrol were imported into Nigeria in the fourth quarter of the year 2018. This information about the quantity of petrol imported into the country was disclosed by NBS in its Petroleum Products Imports and Consumption (Truck Out) Statistics for fourth quarter 2018 posted on its website. The NBS said that 331.78 million litres of domestic gas were imported into the country in the quarter under review. The bureau said that state-wide distribution or truck-out volume for fourth quarter showed that 5.17 billion litres of petrol were distributed nationwide. It said that 1.16 billion litres of diesel, 81.12 million litres of household kerosene, 256.73 million litres of aviation fuel and 137.53 million litres of domestic gas were distributed nationwide during the period under review. The data for the report were provided by the Petroleum Products and Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and verified

Member Of Supreme Eiye Confraternity Arrested In Italy A Nigerian man believed to be a member of the Supreme Eiye confraternity has been arrested by the authorities in Treviso area of Italy. The 34-year-old suspected gang leader who has an Italian resident permit was arrested along with some of his gang members following investigations into criminal activities ranging from prostitution, human and trafficking among other vices. It was learnt that an investigation into the gang’s activity in the area – was launched after a young Nigerian girl said to be a victim of sex trafficking – exposed the suspects to the police. Also, several violent attacks have been recorded by the group in order to stamp their authority in the region. Last year, security operatives arrested a group of Nigerian cultists believed to be part of a drug and criminal syndicate near Cagliari area of Italy. The suspects who are said to be members of Supreme Eiye Confraternity, were nabbed following investiga

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday met behind closed doors with the former United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The closed doors meeting was described as ‘private’. At the end of the meeting, there was no press interview. There was also no official statement issued concerning the meeting as at the time of filing this report. Blair was the UK Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party between 1994 and 2007. source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/04/osinbajo-meets-blair-in-aso-villa.html

US novelist George R. R. Martin arrives for the “Game of Thrones” eighth and final season premiere at Radio City Music Hall on April 3, 2019 in New York city. Angela Weiss / AFP “Game of Thrones,” the fantasy epic imagined more than 20 years ago by author George R.R. Martin, will have its much-anticipated finale on HBO later this year. But in a strange twist never seen in literature, Martin will himself discover the on-screen ending of his long-running masterwork before he has had a chance to conclude the fantasy on paper. “Obviously, I wished I finished these books sooner, so the show hadn’t gotten ahead of me,” Martin said recently in an interview with Entertainment Weekly before the final season begins airing on April 14 on HBO. “I never anticipated that.” When the Emmy Award-winning television series about noble families vying for the Iron Throne was launched in 2011, the American author had only written four of the seven books that make up his “Song of Ice and Fire” sag

Saudi Arabia has arrested at least eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn condemnation from abroad, an associate and a rights group said on Friday. The 11 women on trial had campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the Kingdom’s male guardianship system. Their case has intensified Western criticism of Saudi Arabia’s rights record, already in the spotlight after the murder of a journalist, Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in 2018. The U.S. nationals are journalist Salah al-Haidar, whose mother Aziza al-Yousef is among those on trial, and Bader al-Ibrahim, a doctor and author of a book about Shi’ite Muslim politics, the associate and London-based Saudi rights group ALQST said. Those newly detained are not frontline activists but have expressed support online of women’s rights and other reforms in the conservative kingdom. They were picked up on Thursday, according to ALQST an

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has ordered that President Muhammadu Buhari be served a petition, challenging his victory, through the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC). A three-man panel of the tribunal, led by Justice Abdu Aboki, gave the order on Friday in a ruling on an ex-parte motion filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) and its presidential candidate, Pastor Aminchi Habu. The tribunal ordered that copies of all the processes filed by the petitioners be served on President Buhari through the APC’s National Legal Adviser at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Petitioners lawyer, Aliyu Lemu, while arguing the motion, told the tribunal that if the bailiff had problem serving President Buhari in his office. He said it was necessary that the President, who is listed as the second respondent be served through substituted means so that their petition could be heard within the stipulated 180 days. Petitioners are

Residents of Bariga have arrested members of a suspected kidnap and robbery syndicate operating in a taxi. The suspects including an old man said to be the driver were arrested on Wednesday after one of the victims identified their operational vehicle, a dark green Toyota Camry. It was gathered that the victim, a woman, had boarded the taxi on Tuesday on her way to work but was diverted towards Badagry Expressway where her hands, legs and mouth were tied. The gang comprising four men, allegedly dispossessed her of her phone, N20,000 and other valuables before pushing her out of the vehicle inside a bush, to find her way. Luck however ran out of the gang on Wednesday when the said victim saw them and raised alarm. According to a resident, Alhaji Kolade Awofeso, one of the suspects fled but the mob was able to apprehend three. “The remaining three were taken to Bariga Police Station including the elderly man (driver). Surprisingly at the Bariga Police Station, the suspects