Federal High Court sitting in Kano Orders Forfeiture of Yakubu’s $9.8m to FG

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano presided over by Justice Zainab B. Abubakar today ordered the forfeiture of the sum of $9,772,00 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand United States Dollars ) and £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) recovered from a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu to the Federal Government.

The order was sequel to an ex parte application by the EFCC seeking an interim forfeiture of the recovered money to the Federal Government.

FG may increase petrol price soon — Marketers

The Federal Government may soon effect an upward review in the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, oil marketers have said, attributing this to the recent increase in the cost of crude oil at the international market.

Crude oil price had fallen below $30 per barrel earlier this year, but as of May 2, 2016, the commodity’s cost rose to $45.83, according to data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Saturday in Abuja.

The oil marketers also told our correspondent that the current challenge they faced in the industry was how to sustain the improvement in the supply of petrol across the country.