For the second time this month, Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Plant has reviewed its ex-depot cost of petrol to ₦835 per litre.
The $20bn Lagos-based refinery informed its marketers and customers of the slash in a notice posted on its official X platform on Wednesday.
In the notice titled: “Dangote Petroleum Refinery Announces Reduction In Petrol Price” Anthony Chiejina, Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Group noted that the reduction takes effect from Wednesday.
It read: “Dangote Petroleum Refinery is pleased to announce a reduction in the gantry price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, from N865 to N835, effective from Wednesday, 16th April 2025.
“This marks the second price reduction within a week. High-quality Dangote petrol will now be available at the following prices across all our partner retail outlets: 2 Key partners, including MRS, AP (Ardova), Heyden, Optima Energy, Hyde and Tecno Oil, will offer petrol at N890 per litre, down from N920 in Lagos. In the South-West, the price will be N900 per litre, reduced from N930. In the North-West and North-Central, the price will be N910 per litre, lowered from N940. In the South-East, South-South, and North-East, the price will be N920 per litre, down from N950.
“These price reductions reaffirm our commitment to providing high-quality petrol at affordable rates, benefiting consumers across the nation. In addition, we are working collaboratively with our partners to ensure equitable reflection of this price reduction.
“Dangote Petroleum Refinery has consistently worked to reduce the prices of petrol and other refined petroleum products, ensuring the continued benefit of Nigerian consumers. For example, in February, the refinery reduced prices twice by N125.
“In addition, products such as diesel and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) have also experienced significant price reductions due to the refinery’s sustained efforts. We anticipate that this latest reduction in PMS prices will generate a positive ripple effect throughout various sectors of the economy, providing much-needed relief to consumers and contributing to broader economic growth, particularly during the Easter season.
“Dangote Petroleum Refinery remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring a steady supply of premium-quality petroleum products, with sufficient reserves to meet domestic demand, along with a surplus for export. This strategy is designed to support the stability of the domestic market while also contributing to the growth of Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves.
“Furthermore, Dangote Petroleum Refinery calls on industry stakeholders, including marketers and distributors, to continue sourcing their products from the refinery, ensuring that the benefits of these price reductions are fully realised across the country.”
The price reduction by the private refinery followed a meeting between representatives of the Dangote Refinery and the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, last week.
At the end of the meeting, the government said the naira-for-crude was still in effect and that the initiative was not a temporary measure but a “key policy directive designed to support sustainable local refining.”
INDIANAPOLIS (TCN) — A 19-year-old woman and her 18-year-old boyfriend are accused of robbing and ambushing a young father who was out on a date with the female suspect.
According to the Indianapolis Star, in the early morning of Jan. 25, Indianapolis Police Department officers responded to a call on East 49th Street and found 26-year-old Jarrell Pryor on the ground suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Paramedics transported him to a hospital, where he died. He reportedly sustained gunshot wounds to his stomach, jaw, chest, and back.
Investigators allege Alexis Hawkins set Pryor up in an attempt to rob him. Later on Jan. 25, she allegedly searched topics online such as “shootings Keystone” and “news today near me.”
Court records cited by the Indianapolis Star allege Hawkins messaged her boyfriend the night of the date, saying, “Been trynna find sum licks if you need me to rob anybody down here.” She reportedly later texted her boyfriend, “Don’t say too much,” and “Delete these messages too by the way.”
WXIN-TV identified the boyfriend as Brian Winston, who was arrested April 12. Court records show they are both being charged with murder and two counts of robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. Winston is facing two counts of murder, while Hawkins is charged with one.
Pryor leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter. Pryor’s father, Travis Wiley, told WXIN, “You can’t escape this type of pain. There’s no running from it. There’s no getting away.”
His mother, Tamekia Wiley, added, “No justice will ever cure my broken heart. It will not ever bring my baby back.”
Teen tricked man into date-turned-fatal-robbery on Indy’s north side, court records reveal, 2/27/2025 – Indianapolis Star
Teen’s 18-year-old boyfriend also arrested after date-turned-fatal robbery on northside – Indianapolis Star
2 charged with murder after date turns to deadly ambush of young father – WXIN
The House of Representatives has ordered revenue payment platform, Remita to refund N182. 77 billion to the Federal Government.
The sum was discovered to have been withheld from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) since 2015 by the financial technology firm, which operates under the trade name SystemSpecs Limited.
Remita, also known as SystemSpecs Ltd, to refund a total of N182.77bn withheld from Treasury Single Account since 2015 to the Federal Government following a forensic audit that uncovered the discrepancy.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives issued the marching orders on Wednesday.
The order followed the submission of an investigative report by a firm of chartered accountants and consulting firm, Seyi Katola and Company.
The House had, in 2024, mandated the PAC to investigate revenue leakages and non-remittance of funds by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) through Remita.
The chairman of the Committee, Rep Bamidele Salam, said the resolution was based on findings by the firm.
According to him, documents provided by SystemSpecs/Remita and other stakeholders within the TSA ecosystem also revealed the discrepancy.
The managing partner of the firm of consultants, Dr. Adewale Oyebamiji, presented the breakdown of the liabilities.
Going by the report, SystemSpecs was responsible for N3.42 billion in under-refunded transaction processing fees, N101.85 million in unpaid acquirer fees, and N179.25 billion in unremitted collections.
The committee said Remita under refunded N993 million, with N2. 42 billion interests charges, totalling N3. 42 billion.
The calculations were based on Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monetary Policy Rate of 27.25 per cent.
Non-payment of acquirer fee has a refundable amount of N29.60m, with interest charges of N72. 25bn totalling: N101.85m.
In non–remittance of collection, Remita is to refund N54,24bn with interest charges of N125bn totalling N179bn.
A statement issued by PAC on Wednesday read, “The committee recommends that SystemSpecs Ltd be compelled to refund the total sum of N182.77bn to the Federal Government Asset Recovery Account domiciled at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), account number: 0020054161191.”
Additionally, the committee noted that some deposit money banks have already complied with similar repayment orders.
The PAC called on other TSA value chain service providers that are yet to comply to do so without delay.
PAC chairman Salam commended the forensic consultants for doing a thorough and patriotic job.
He emphasized that the effort supports transparency and strengthens Nigeria’s fiscal accountability framework.
Reps Demand Refund Of N182bn Unremitted TSA Funds From Remita is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MARK SHERMAN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration appears to have willfully violated his order to turn around planes of migrants headed for El Salvador increases the prospect of officials being held in criminal contempt of court and potentially facing possible prosecution.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in his ruling on Wednesday that probable cause exists to hold the administration in contempt over its defiance of his order in the case involving migrants sent to a notorious El Salvador prison. The judge is giving the administration a chance to remedy the violation first before moving forward with such an action.
The White House says it’s planning to appeal.
It’s the latest standoff between the administration and the judiciary, which has blocked a slew of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive actions around immigration and other matters.
Here’s what to know about the judge’s ruling, contempt of court and what happens next:
The judge’s order and the administration’s violation
The case stems from Trump’s invocation of a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members. During an emergency hearing last month after several migrants sued, Boasberg had ordered the administration not to deport anyone in its custody under the act.
When told there were already planes in the air headed to El Salvador, which has agreed to house deported migrants in a notorious prison, the judge said the aircraft needed to be returned to the United States. That didn’t happen.
Hours later, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, announced that the deportees had arrived in his country. In a social media post, he said, “Oopsie…too late” above an article referencing Boasberg’s order.
The Justice Department has argued the judge’s order didn’t apply to planes that had already left U.S. airspace by the time his command came down.
Boasberg said the government’s “actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order.” Even though the Supreme Court earlier this month vacated Boasberg’s ruling that blocked the deportations, the judge said that does not “excuse the government’s violation.”
Judge warns of possible contempt of court prosecution
Boasberg said the administration can avoid contempt proceedings if it attempts to remedy the violation by retaking custody of the deportees, who were sent to the El Salvador prison in violation of his order, so they have a chance to challenge their removal. The judge wrote that the government “would not need to release any of those individuals, nor would it need to transport them back to the homeland,” but it’s unclear how that would work.
Boasberg said if the administration chooses not to remedy the violation, he will move forward with trying to identify the official or officials who made the decision not to turn the planes around. The judge said he would start by asking the government to submit written declarations in court, but he could turn to hearings with live witnesses under oath or depositions.
Then, he could refer the matter for prosecution. Since Trump’s Justice Department leadership would almost certainly opt not to bring a case, the judge said he would appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt case should the government decline to do so.
Rory Little, a law professor of constitutional law at UC Law San Francisco, believes the government could easily avoid a contempt finding.
“Boasberg doesn’t suggest it, but if they put those 200 people back on a plane and brought them back, that would purge the contempt for sure. It’s just that we don’t think Trump’s going to do that,” Little said.
Little said Boasberg suggested a “much less intrusive method” for the administration to comply with his order.
“He is being as careful as he can be to avoid the face-to-face, ugly confrontation that we all think must be coming sooner or later,” he said.
The administration could also be facing possible contempt of court in another case involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the administration has acknowledged was mistakenly sent to the El Salvador prison. The judge in that case has said she is determining whether to undertake contempt proceedings, saying officials “appear to have done nothing to aid in Abrego Garcia’s release from custody and return to the United States” despite a Supreme Court ruling that the administration must “facilitate” his release.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, right, stands with supporters during a news conference at CASA’s Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Criminal contempt cases are rare
Judges have been willing to hold officials and agencies in contempt for failing to abide by rulings, even occasionally seeking to impose fines and imprisonment. But higher courts have almost always overturned them, Yale law professor Nicholas Parrillo wrote in a 2018 Harvard Law Review article that surveyed thousands of cases and turned up 82 contempt findings by federal judges since the end of World War II.
In a long-running dispute over money, the federal government holds in trust for Native American tribes, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth held interior secretaries Gale Norton, a Republican, in 2002, and Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, in 1999, in contempt and twice ordered the Interior Department to disconnect its computers.
The federal appeals court in Washington overturned the contempt charge against Norton and finally removed Lamberth from the case in 2006.
Even without sanctions, though, contempt findings “have a shaming effect that gives them substantial if imperfect deterrent power,” Parrillo wrote. But he acknowledged that the potency of contempt rests on the widely shared view that officials comply with court orders.
In 1987, a divided Supreme Court ruled that district court judges have the authority to appoint private attorneys to prosecute criminal contempt actions. Justice Antonin Scalia, who disagreed with the majority decision, concluded that the courts don’t have the power to appoint attorneys to conduct contempt prosecutions.
Stanford Law School professor Robert Weisberg, who teaches criminal procedure, said Boasberg’s claim that the government flagrantly violated his order is “very convincing.”
“This looks so sound to me that I think it will be difficult to win a reversal, which means we may have a standoff,” he said.
Weisberg said he is concerned that the showdown between the judge and administration could move the government even closer to a constitutional crisis.
“I’m supposed to say, because everybody else does, that we have to be careful about using the term ‘constitutional crisis.’ It means too many things, it’s overused,” he said. “That aside, what the country has been waiting for … some with happy anticipation, is for a flat-out refusal to obey a legal court order. This is pretty close.”
The Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is now just a month away from releasing, and those who get a physical copy of the game can get a cool bonus.
Capcom has now released a special trailer previewing the Capcom vs. SNK comic book with some animation.
The short trailer begins with some of art of the characters featured within including Kyo Kusanagi, Mai Shiranui and Haohmaru on the SNK side along with Ryu, Kyosuke and Morrigan for Capcom.
We get to see brief glimpses at the battles featured in the book with Kyosuke vs. Mai, Haohmaru vs. Morrigan, and Ryu vs. Kyo with some motion comic-style animation and voice acting.
The 48-page mini comic book from Udon Entertainment will be available for those who pre-order the physical edition of the game in North America.
This new compilation features eight classic titles including Capcom vs. SNK, Capcom vs. SNK 2, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper, Star Gladiator, Plasma Sword, Power Stone, and Power Stone 2.
A new Japanese interview also dropped discussing how and why the Capcom Fighting Collections came about that we’ve translated that you should check out as well.
Their Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection also received a new title update this week that adds new features and quality of life enhancements, which will also be available in this game too.
The Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is set to release on May 16 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
You can check out the new trailer for the comic below.
The Nigerian Navy says it has intercepted over 1300 bags of foreign parboiled rice at Majidun Community in Ikorodu West Local Government Area of Lagos State.
This was contained in a statement by the Base Information Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft, Lieutenant Hussaini Ibrahim.
The Commander Nigerian Navy ship BEECROFT and Maritime Component Commander of Operation AWATSE, Commodore Paul Ponfa Nimmyel, reportedly disclosed this to journalists.
He said the seizure was made on Saturday, April 12, by Operation Awatse Team while conducting routine security and anti-smuggling operations within their Area of Operations.
“Some vehicles suspected to be involved in smuggling activities attempted to evade security at its check point, which necessitated a swift pursuit by the Operation AWATSE Quick Response Team (QRT) in accordance with the Joint Task Force’s Standard Operating Procedures,” the statement read.
“The operation by the Maritime Component of the Operation AWATSE was conducted with commendable professionalism and restraint as no casualties were recorded. The timely response of the QRT and successful interception of the consignment have demonstrated the continued commitment of Maritime Component of Operation AWATSE to assist statutory agencies in curbing smuggling activities within its Area of Operations.
“The arrested 1,306 bags of smuggled foreign parboiled rice were handed over to the Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command, Apapa, today Wednesday 16 April 2025, in line with the Harmonized Standard Procedures on Arrest, Detention and Prosecution.”
