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Buhari govt planning to increase fuel price to N185 in 2019 – Fayose The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose on Monday warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to “perish the idea of increasing the pump price of petrol from N145 per litre to N185 in March next year”. Fayose described the purported plan to increase the pump price of the commodity as a way of taking back whatever that will be added to workers’ salary as minimum wage increment. In a statement by his Media Aide, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said, “Nigerians have suffered enough in the hands of the APC government and won’t accept any further upward review of petrol pump price. “They are delaying the increment till March because of its effects on the February 2019 elections.” Fayose said the NNPC presentation to the Senate last week that “N145 fuel pump price was unrealistic and that the pump price of petrol was supposed to be N185 per litre as against the official price of N145 per litr...

Atiku: Watch Your Tongue - PDP Gives Tinubu Stern Warning APC National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu The Peoples Democratic Party has warned the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to respect himself and not drawn into what it calls “the smear campaign” and “unsavoury comments” against its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Recall that Tinubu had on Wednesday boasted that the APC would defeat the PDP and its presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election. He said the country would not allow the PDP, which, he alleged, ran the country badly while in power for 16 years between 1999 and 2015. He said wherever Atiku, who is presently in Dubai, holds meetings, the APC would come out triumph. Tinubu had said, “We don’t fear, whether he is meeting in the jungle, in Dubai or in Abu Dhabi. People are free to meet and strategise in any way they fell, but we are not going back to the illusion of the PDP. It is not possible, Nigerians will n...