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  Members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria on Wednesday disrupted loading of petroleum products at private depots in Apapa as well as Ibadan, Ejigbo and Mosimi depots belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Our correspondent learnt that the marketers picketed the facilities to protest their inability to get products due to a new payment method introduced by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the NNPC. The Chairman, IPMAN, Ore Depot, Mr Shina Amoo, confirmed the development in an interview with our correspondent in Ibadan on Wednesday. He said the members of the association blocked the depots with tankers to protest the new payment method. Amoo said independent marketers were angry because the new payment method, called ‘PPMC Customer Express’, was foisted on them suddenly and the NNPC expected compliance immediately without considering the business interests of many members of the association. He explained that w...

Nigerians set to protest on February 13, 2021 over the opening of the Lekki Tollgate, XpressTV Naija reports. Our reporter recalled that the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry investigating the alleged murdering of End SARS protesters by the military at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020, has confirmed the reopening of the toll plaza. Reacting to this, Nigerians under the social media trend #revolutionnow condemned the act and demand justice for the victims of the Lekki massacre. Source:   https://xpresstvnaija.com/news/reopen-tollgate-nigerians-to-protest-on-february-13/

  •Christine Lagarde: Bitcoin facilitates questionable transactions •Nigeria surged to second highest crypto destination in the world raking $200 to $300million a week without underlining economic activity, alarming the CBN •FG alarmed kidnappers had switched to bitcoin for ransom payments Tobi Soniyi in Lagos and Chuks Okocha More facts have emerged on why the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decided to ban cryptocurrency trading in the country. The apex bank prohibited dealing in cryptocurrencies or facilitating payments for cryptocurrency exchanges last week Friday. Investigations by THISDAY have revealed that,  the federal government and the CBN were warned by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI), on the activities of fraudsters using cryptocurrencies to bringing into the country hundreds of millions of US Dollars illegally obtained from the USA and other Western economies. This was said to have particularly targeted COVID-19 stimulus packages designed to...

  The first plane crash in Nigeria happened on the 12th of April, 1942 on a hill called Igbo Ilapa in the quiet town of Ikogosi, Ekiti State. Besides being famous for housing a popular tourist attraction where warm and cold springs meet, Ikogosi happens to be the first place where a plane crash incident occurred in Nigeria. How did the crash happen? The 2nd world war was ongoing when a cargo plane which was carrying arms and ammunition (including explosives) crashed at Igbo Ilapa in Ikogosi. The explosives made the crash a fatal one as they kept exploding for hours. First Plane Crash In NIgeria This set the whole of Igbo Ilapa, now called Igbo Baalu (forest of aeroplane), on fire and destroyed every living and non-living thing in the environment. OldNaija gathered that the pilot, with great efforts, manoeuvred the plane to crash on the forest-cloaked hill instead of the quiet town which would have left many people dead and several properties destroyed. Till this very moment, two ho...