Yemisi Izuora With the global energy transformation defining the energy landscape and world economies, fossil fuel will still account for 53 per cent of the world energy demand even up to 2040. This was made known by the Chief Executive Officer, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, Austin Avuru, while speaking at a panel session at the 2019 workshop hosted by Petroleum Technology Association of Nigerian (PETAN) at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), with the theme: ‘Global Energy Transformation – The Effect and Future of the African Oil Industry and Economy’ in Houston Texas, United States. According to him, ‘’Even up…
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Yemisi Izuora Oilserve, an indigenous oil servicing firm handling the Obiafu-Obrikom -Oben (OB3) ‘Lot A’ gas pipeline project has assured that given the commitment and spate of work already done the project would be completed by September this year. The Chairman/CEO of the company, Engr. Emeka Okwuosa, gave the assurance at the Just concluded Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held in Houston, USA. The Oilserv chairman explained that the project is quite a challenging one, adding that the company has always shown commitment in the process of executing the project from Engineering, Procurement Construction (EPC) stages. He disclosed that, the OB3…
Yemisi Izuora Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist Femi Falana, has said that only stakeholders monitoring can save the N142 billion Universal Basic Education Fund, UBE, due to be disbursed from being diverted by state governments. Falana states that in Nigeria, every child is entitled to free and compulsory education from primary to junior secondary school but no state government has seriously implemented the program. Majority of state governments refused to contribute counterpart fund to assess the Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund, he said adding that only last year, the Federal Government accepted his suggestion to deduct outstanding counterpart fund…
Yemisi Izuora The Attorney General of the Federation, (AGF) Mr Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has been urged to stop opposing the anti-corruption campaigns of the law enforcement agencies. In a statement, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) accused the AGF of frustrating critical corruption cases through his undue interference. “We are constrained to come out openly against what appears a clear attempt by the AGF to put a clogs in the wheel of the anti-corruption drive. HEDA has in fact compiled several instances when the AGF gave impression that he is not on the same page with Nigerians…
Hyacinth Chinweuba The Anti-Smuggling operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun State Command has once again encountered Smugglers over seized smuggled rice brought into the country. This latest encounter is coming barely few months after the operatives had a similar attack from the smugglers whose main objective is to defraud and short change government in duty payment. According to the statement the attitude of the tugs before mobilizing their supporting hoodlums poised for action who refused to be dispossessed of some vehicles intercepted laden with bags of foreign parboiled rice at Adisba, a settlement area after Owode Town. According…
Hyacinth Chinweuba The Customs Area Controller of the Apapa Area1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Mohammed Abba Kura has collected the sum of N37,391,824,523.78 (Thirty seven billion, three hundred and ninety one million, eight hundred and twenty four thousand, five hundred and twenty three naira seventy eight kobo) as revenue in the month of April this year 2019. The Commands Public Relations Officer, DSC Nkiru Nwala said the Controller has changed his strategy to build on the existing standard in maximum revenue collection he met and promised to renew his plan for uptimum trade facilitation, ensure total…
Hyacinth Chinweuba The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has said that government is making remarkable progress having completed laying of 123km of the 156 km stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail project. Amaechi made the disclosure during his routine inspection of the project along Kila, Olodo, Ilugun corridor of the track in the outskirts of Ogun State. He said the project had been completed up to Kila village, a settlement on the outskirts of Ogun towards Oyo State. “We are already moving towards Ibadan, the track laying is now in Kila, a town on the outskirts of Ogun.…
Hyacinth Chinweuba The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested two ex – convicts and one other suspect for alleged robbery in Lekki Phase, Lekki area of Lagos State. The alleged robbers, one of whom was released from Oke – Kura Prison, Kwara State on Friday, April 26, 2019, was re – arrested on Monday in Lekki, Lagos, along with his colleagues after robbing a 25-year-old lady in Lekki Phase 1. According to the suspect, Emmanuel Michael, a 20 year old boy, “I was released from Oke – Kura Prison, Kwara State on Friday. I was imprisoned for almost…
Hyacinth Chinweuba The Lagos state police command has arrested three man gang of motorcycle snatchers. The Ipaja Police station which made the arrest said it received a distress call that some armed robbers were operating at Victor Street, Ipaja. Following the tip off a team of Policemen from Ipaja Division was mobilized to the scene where three suspects namely Adeleke Lateef; Lekan Bashiru and Chinedu Uzozie, were arrested in connection with the case. The victim, one Saheed Oloyo, whom the suspects injured with a matchet and dispossessed him of his Motorcycle was rescued and taken to hospital and he is…
Source: Reuters Islamic State (IS) killed 11 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on the northeastern town of Gajiganna, the group claimed through its news agency AMAQ on Saturday. The Jihadist organisation said the attack on the soldiers took place in the town in northeastern Borno state on Friday. It published pictures of burned barracks and dead bodies it claimed belonged to the soldiers. Three sources, including one hospital source, confirmed the attack. They said the militants stormed the town on a motorbike at roughly 6:30 p.m. (1730 GMT) and opened fire on residents and the military in sporadic shootings. The…