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Marketers Will Pay Naira for Dangote Fuel -IPMAN

Aliko Dangote Refined petroleum products from the $20bn Dangote Petroleum Refinery are to be sold in naira and not in the United States dollar as speculated in some quarters, oil marketers clarified on Monday. Dealers in the downstream oil sector also stated that the registration process for marketers at the refinery was still ongoing, as many operators had continued to register with the plant. It was further gathered that officials of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority were meeting with the management of the refinery to perfect the pricing template for products produced by the facility. On January 12, 2023, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery announced the commencement of production of Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, and JetA1 or aviation fuel. The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had in a statement issued by the firm, said, “We have started the production of diesel and aviation fuel, and the products will be in the market within this mon...

Man kills in-law over cigarette


A 21-year old man identified as Lucky Igbineyi has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing his in-law, Blessing Obazee over a stick of cigarette.

 

Lucky was said to have stabbed his in-law in the stomach severally.

 

Police Prosecutor, Inspector Oluwaseun Olatoye, had informed an Evboriaria Magistrate court that Lucky committed the crime on September 3 at No 40, Enoruwa Street, Off Upper Sakponba Road in Ikpoba-Okha local government.

 

Olatoye said the accused person came to stay in the same room with the deceased.

 

He explained that the deceased (Obazee) refused to give the accused person the cigarette he was smoking which made the accused person to go and buy his.

 

Olatoye further narrated that the deceased stopped Lucky from smoking inside his room and dragged the cigarette from his mouth.

 

This, he said, angered Lucky which made him to take a  knife and stabbed the deceased severally to death. 

 

Presiding Magistrate, Mrs Caroline Oghuma said that the case was not within the court jurisdiction.

 

Mrs. Oghuma directed that the case file be duplicated and forwarded to the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.

 

She ordered the accused person remanded at Oko Medium security prison in Benin pending the advice of the DPP and adjourned the case until November 18, 2016 for mentioning.





Source;TheNation

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