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After nearly three weeks abroad, President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja on Sunday night, following an official visit to China and a stopover in the United Kingdom, where he met with the King of England, King Charles III
The president was received at around 10:40pm on Sunday at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport by top government officials.
Tinubu while in China, attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and held talks with President Xi Jinping and while in the United Kingdom, the president held discussions on climate change with the King of England.
Over the weekend, a video emerged showing the president leaving St Mary hospital in London, eliciting a flurry of reactions.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited Lifted its first consignment of petrol from the Dangote Refinery in Lagos, marking a significant milestone in Nigeria’s journey towards industrialisation and energy security.
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, who led the government delegation to the refinery, described the event as a major win for local refining.
There had been reports that NNPC purchased petrol from Dangote refinery at N766 per litre.
However, NNPC said for “this initial loading, it was N898 per litre so far”. NNPC has confirmed petrol prices from Dangote Refinery across Nigeria will be sold at N950/litre in Lagos, N1,019 in Borno.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, alleging his government’s failure to reverse the increase in the pump price of petrol.
SERAP, said the lawsuit was filed due to the President’s failure to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Joined in the suit as Respondents are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and the NNPC.
SERAP wants the court to compel President Tinubu to direct the NNPC to reverse the unjust, illegal, unconstitutional and unreasonable increase in the price of petrol from N845 per litre to N600 per litre.
There was joy in tertiary institutions in Abia State this weekend, as workers started receiving bank alerts of the payment of their accumulated salary arrears amounting to N17.6 billion Naira.
Some staff of Abia Polytechnic Aba were seen in a viral video jubilating and showering praise on Gov. Alex Otti.
A widow, Uba Sandra Chisom who lost her husband to kidnappers, has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to have mercy on poor Nigerians, especially widows like herself, as the hardship in the country has become unbearable! Chisom is mother of two.
In Jordan, a Nigerian medical doctor and Polio Technical Officer working with the World Health Organization in Jordan Dr Emeka Agbo is reported to have been murdered in Amman, He was just 45 years.
Emeka according to reports had complained to his wife of threats he was receiving from two of his colleagues before he was found dead.
Emeka had been a valued member of the WHO workforce for the last ten years, supporting immunization, polio eradication, and Ebola ‘outbreak response’ in the African and Eastern Mediterranean regions.
He recently joined the Polio Eradication team in Amman and in a short time, made important contributions as the Regional Incident Support Manager for response to polio outbreaks in Sudan and Djibouti.
The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora commission, Abike Dabiri Erewa in a post on X has called for an immediate investigation into the incident.
In the United States, former president, Donald Trump on Sunday in a post on X, vowed to deport illegal migrants to their home countries, if he wins the US presidential elections in November.
Trump wrote in his post that, “As President, I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America,”
“We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala “phone app” for smuggling illegals; revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s “illegal migrants” to their home countries.
His post is coming after his first debate with Kamala Harris, when he claimed that Haitians living in Springfield are eating cats and dogs.
Trump’s claim has since gone viral; and even made into a song by The Kiffness – Titled Eating the Cats ft. Donald Trump (Debate Remix).
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