Day: March 18, 2021

Operators, DPR agree to sell petrol for N148.17

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In order to check fluctuations in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has signed an agreement with over 27 operators in the downstream sector. Depot facility operators, union leaders of retail outlets and other downstream operators agreed that petrol would be sold at the stipulated ex-depot price of N148.17 per litre. Port Harcourt Zonal Operations Controller of DPR, Bassey Nkanga said the move would end an unnecessary hike in prices of petroleum products. Retail outlets at the meeting…

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Engineer sentenced to five-years imprisonment for serial rape of sister-in-law

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A 50-year-old electrical engineer Preye Ojoko has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, on Wednesday, for the serial rape of his 17-year-old sister-in-law. Ojoko, who is a father of five, was accused of defiling his wife’s niece at the age of nine, and again raped her when she turned 17 years under the pretence of training her in school. The prosecuting counsel and former attorney-general of the state, Kemesuode Wodu, told the court the accused started the serial rape of his…

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