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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has said the Federal Government did not at any time promise to keep the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) permanently low.
The minister said these in a statement published on Thursday on the ministry’s Instagram page, with the title ‘Deregulation: The facts and the reasons behind the policy’.

Sylva also said the government had concluded that it could no longer bear the burden of petrol subsidy.

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A 70-year-old man, Mohammed Sani Umar, has pleaded guilty to raping an eight-year-old girl, Amina Mahmud, in Chanchaga area of Minna, Niger State.
Umar, who admitted before a magistrate court on Wednesday, said he raped the little girl twice because he loved her.

The magistrate following the request of the prosecution, adjourned the case until July 23 and ordered the suspect to be remanded at the Minna new prison.

The suspect was arrested few days ago after the mother of the girl noticed her abnormal behavior, which made her question the girl before she revealed that the septuagenarian defiled her.

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A young man working in India, who returned to his hometown in the eastern state of Bihar last month for his wedding may have infected almost 100 people with the coronavirus.
The groom himself died with COVID-19 symptoms just two days after his wedding, which was attended by more 350 friends and family. The groom, 30, travelled to his hometown of Paliganj in Bihar in the second week of May. He soon began showing symptoms typical of the new coronavirus — fever and diarrhoea — as the June 15 wedding day approached, but he wasn’t tested for the virus and his family reportedly ignored his wishes to postpone the big day. “Even though he was feeling unwell by June 14 and wanted the wedding deferred, family heads from both sides advised against it, citing huge financial losses if the arrangements had to be cancelled,” a relative was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.

According to CBS News, the groom was given some over-the-counter medicine to bring down his fever, and the families went ahead with the wedding on June 15 as planned. More than 350 guests from his village and his bride’s feasted and celebrated together that day. Two days later, the family tried to rush the man to a hospital as his condition continued to deteriorate, but he died on the way.

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The National Assembly has announced the suspension of the Special Public Works programme under the National Directorate of Employment. President Muhammadu Buhari, had approved the recruitment of 774, 000 Nigerians under the scheme. The programme was expected to take off in October this year. But the National Assembly on Wednesday said the programme has been suspended following the disagreement between it and the Minister of State for Employment, Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, on Tuesday. The spokesperson for the Senate, Ajibola Basiru, who announced the suspension of the programme at a press conference in Abuja, said the National Assembly has summoned the Minister in charge of the Ministry to appear before the federal legislature, to explain the recruitment modalities.

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