Bello Rabiu-Babura, Upstream Chief Operating Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, says the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, will resume production in two weeks. Mr. Rabiu-Babura gave the indication while fielding questions from Energy Correspondents, shortly after he inspected facilities at the KRPC on Saturday in Kaduna. He said that all the three Refineries, […]
Continue ReadingTwo men who are suspected ritualists, were apprehended in the early hours of today, with body parts of some dead humans at Iyana Ilogbo, near Lagos-Ogun border. Angry mob vented their anger on the suspected ritualists, by stripping them naked and administering a thorough beaten. They were paraded unclad with the dead body inside a […]
Continue ReadingThe Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi state, Alhaji Bashir Rimi-Zaya, has taken time to commend President Muhammadu Buhari for his fight against insurgency in the country.Mr. Rimi-Zaya made the commendation on Saturday in Bauchi. He noted that he was impressed with the measures taken by Buhari towards curbing terrorism in […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Army, in a statement signed by Colonel SK Usman, the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, has denied reports that soldiers blocked GOC in protest over food and water shortage. The statement read:The attention of the Nigerian Army was drawn to a news story on the online page of Daily Trust newspaper titled “Angry […]
Continue ReadingWhile speaking on President Buhari’s failure to visit Agatu communities after the massacre by herdsmen, Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, said, the president does not have to visit victims of Boko Haram onslaught or herdsmen massacre. “A section of this country wants a talkative president and it doesn’t […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) withheld 12 percent more money in six months under President Muhammadu Buhari than it did with his predecessor from 2013 to 2014. According to a report by the National Resource Governance Institute (NGRI), an international non-profit policy institute with focus on oil, gas and minerals, NNPC withheld more in the last six […]
Continue ReadingBY REUBEN ABATI This commentary is inspired by Olusegun Adeniyi’s “Of wailers, counterwailers and Buharideens” (ThisDay, March 31). In that piece, the ace journalist and public affairs commentator successfully defines the tri-polarities governing public responses to the Muhammadu Buhari administration. The take-away is that the biggest challenge that Nigeria faces at the moment is political […]
Continue ReadingContrary to reports that the Lagos state government has abolished the monthly environmental sanitation, the government has said the monthly exercise is still in force. Although, earlier at the monthly media chat of his ministry, Babatunde Adejare, commissioner for environment, had said it was not productive to shut the city for three hours in reference […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s power situation worsened on Thursday, as power generation collapsed completely to zero megawatt at about 1:00pm and this persisted for about three hours.Data from the country’s System Operator showed that around 1pm on Thursday, no power generation company in Nigeria produced a single megawatt of electricity. Industry operators revealed that as a result of […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s League Management Company, at the completion of investigation and consideration of video evidence that caught billionaire businessman, Ifeanyi Ubah, slapping Heartland FC goalkeeper, Ebele Obi, has hit a N2.5 million fine and a 10-match ban on him In a statement on Thursday, the LMC said the billionaire businessman can appeal against the ruling if […]
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