Naijaonpoint looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Monday, 16th September 2024.
The PUNCH: The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has said that it will sell the petrol lifted from the Dangote Refinery at a price above N1,000 per litre in the far north. The NNPC spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed this on Monday, in a statement titled, ‘NNPC Ltd Releases Estimated Pump Prices of PMS from Dangote Refinery Based on September 2024 Pricing’. Soneye explained that the price may go for as high as N1,019/litre in places like Borno State, and N999.22 in Abuja, Sokoto, Kano, and others.
Vanguard: The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, and Dangote Refinery yesterday disagreed over the pricing of the petrol to be supplied by the refinery. The disagreement came against the backdrop of the first lifting of the product from the refinery by NNPCL yesterday.
ThisDay: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said yesterday that it was investigating what it called an “attempted assassination” of former President Donald Trump after Secret Service agents fired at a man with an AK-47 rifle on or near Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida golf course. A spokesperson for Trump’s campaign said the former president was “safe.”
Daily Trust: Defects in Alau Dam in Maiduguri which were discovered over nine years ago are reportedly responsible for the overflow of the dam, which resulted in the recent massive flood that submerged parts of metropolitan area of the Borno State capital, and also parts of Jere Local Government Area.
