Petrol Price: In Change of Style, Akpabio Asks Nigerians to Reduce Number of Cars They Own Senate President insists market now fully deregulated Marketers sell fuel for N1,400/litre across Nigeria TUC demands special FX rates for domestic crude oil supply Withhold allocations to states running caretaker c’ttees, lawmakers urge FG Emmanuel Addeh, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Sunday Aborisade in Abuja, Peter Uzoho in Lagos and John Shiklam in Kaduna, Ahmed
Sorondinki in Kano, Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo and Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt
The rising price of petrol following the full deregulation of the downstream oil sector continued to generate reactions yesterday, with the Senate President,
Godswill Akpabio, urging Nigerians to cut back on the number of cars they own. The statement by the former Akwa
Ibom State governor appeared largely paradoxical as it is no news that it is the practice of Nigeria’s elite, the top federal lawmaker not exempted, to own
tens of cars in their garages scattered all over the nation and even abroad. Continued on page 10
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A Child Out of School Today is Serious Threat to Nation Tomorrow, Says Shettima NGF: Early marriage, poverty, GBV hinder girls' education, empowerment Almajiri, out-of-school children are time bomb, Abiodun warns FG to launch transformative vanguard framework to provide quality education Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha in Abuja and James Sowole in Abeokuta
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has stressed the urgent need for girl-child education in the country,
warning that a child out of school today would become a threat to the nation tomorrow.
Shettima spoke in Abuja at the inaugural International Conference on Girl Child Education organised
by the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) in collaboration with Rivers State Government, the World Bank,
Platform and Federal Ministry of Continued on page 10
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ELEVATE AFRICA SUMMIT... L-R: His Royal Majesty, Omukama of Tooro Kingdom, Uganda, Oyo Nyimba kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV; Chairman of the occasion, Olu of Warri Kingdom, Ogiame Atuwatse lll; Convener of Elevate Africans, wife of the Olu of Warri Kingdom, Olori Atuwatse PHOTO: KINGSLEY ADEBOYE lll; wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Nana Shettima; former President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga; and First Lady of Kwara State, Mrs.Olufolake Abdlrazaq, during the Elevate Africa Summit in Abuja ... yesterday