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Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 November 2015
Calm returns to Wukari after tribunal verdict crisis
The Taraba Police Command, has confirmed that normalcy had returned to Wukari town after the crisis sparked off by the verdict of Taraba Election Petitions Tribunal.
The tribunal, sitting in Abuja, on Saturday quashed the election of Gov. Darius Ishaku of the PDP and declared Sen. Aisha Alhassan of the APC winner of the poll.
Mr Joseph Kwaji, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jalingo that the crisis broke out in the early hours of Sunday.
He said that though the police had not concluded their investigations, the crisis might not be unconnected with the ruling of the tribunal.
“Yes there was crisis in Wukari, but it is under control now. Security men have been deployed to the area and normalcy has returned to the town.
“Investigation is ongoing but it is likely that the crisis is in connection with the verdict of the governorship election petition tribunal of Saturday,” he said.
The command’s image maker, who said that figures of casualty had not been ascertained by the police, warned the people not to take the laws into their hands.
He said that the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Shaba Alkali had moved to the area to ensure that peace was restored.
He warned that the command would come hard on any one bent on fomenting trouble in any part of the state over the verdict of the tribunal under any guise.
Alhaji Tanimu Danlele, the former Vice Chairman of Wukari Local Government Council, told NAN that at least eight people lost their lives and more than 30 others were injured in the crisis.
He thanked security agents for ensuring quick return of normalcy to the area and urged them to be vigilant to forestall re-occurrence.
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Nigerian Military Responds To ‘Boko Haram leader, Shekau’
The Nigerian military said it was not considering the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, or any other particular person in the terror group to be relevant in the ongoing onslaught against insurgency in the North East.
Shocking Discovery: Pupils still sit on bare floor to learn at schools in Delta
Delta lawmaker, Izeze laments shocking findings in constituency
Pope Francis To Address UN General Assembly Friday
Pope Francis will on Friday, September
25th, 2015 formally address the United Nations General Assembly in New
York City. The event which will take place at the General Assembly
Chambers will be held at 8:30 am.
Lowkey Celebration: FG Approves N70m For Nigeria’s 55th Independence Anniversary
In line with the cost-saving policy
direction of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, the federal
government has approved N70 million for the entire celebration of
Nigeria 55th Independence Anniversary which is slated to commence from
September 25, 2015.
Businessman Docked For Allegedly Posing As Customs Officer
A businessman, Sunday Agama, was on Tuesday arraigned at a
court in Lagos State for allegedly impersonating a Nigeria Customs
Service officer.
Transparent car showcases new automotive safety tech
Forthcoming car safety technology, designed to reduce crashes and
save lives, has been shown off at the Frankfurt motor show using a
specially created transparent car.
Gambia’s Economy Faces Serious Risks – IMF
Gambia’s economy faces serious risks from a worsening budget,
rising inflation and tight interest rates, the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), has said.
Removal Of Road Blocks Reduced Corruption – Police
The Inspector -General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has said
that the removal of roadblocks from the nation’s highways and
application of other administrative policies had reduced corruption in
the Force.
Bukola Saraki Has Been Docked (See Photos)
Osun Students Block Deputy Governor From Entering State Secretariat (See Why)
Man Brutally Murdered His Girlfriend For Screaming Her Ex's Name During Sex ( Disturbing Content)
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Bukola Saraki: The defence of evil
“Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong”- Daniel O'Connell.
By Remi Oyeyemi
It
is very evident that Nigeria is in dire straits. It is clear enough
that Nigeria is in serious trouble. For anyone that still doubts it, we
have just been handed the evidence that this country called Nigeria is
straddling the line between good and evil. It is about to decide whether
to choose the good over evil or vice versa. It is about to determine
whether this would be a country where justice and integrity shall be the
hallmark of leadership or not. It is about to make a choice whether our
public officials would continue to be moral reprobates or virtuous men.
The test case is on hand as we speak.
Horror!!!!! Man Arrested With 21 Pieces Of Female Body Parts Found In His Freezer!
How Obasanjo scuttled Tinubu’s ambition of producing Buhari’s Finance Minister
It is no longer news that President Muhammadu Buhari is set to constitute his cabinet.
What Nigerians are keen on, however, is knowing those who would make the final list Buhari will send to the National Assembly for confirmation.
Forum Urges Zamfara Govt To Use Bail-out Fund To Pay Workers Salary Arrears
A forum of civil servants in Zamfara has
appealed to the state government to offset all salaries owed workers
with the bailout fund it received from the Federal Government.
PDP Calls Buhari's Government Despotic
NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said yesterday that the country under President Muhammadu Buhari was drifting towards dictatorship, just as it urged the international community to intervene.
Shekau Calls Buhari A Liar
Nigeria’s military on Saturday claimed further gains in its
counter-offensive against Boko Haram, but the group’s shadowy leader
Abubakar Shekau dismissed the talk of success as “lies”.
Nigeria’s oil refineries resume production?
Bright orange flames flare upwards from a pencil-thin chimney at the
Port Harcourt Refining Company, sending thick black smoke into the white
clouds above Nigeria’s southern oil hub.
On the ground, workers in boiler suits and hard hats inspect the tanks, valves and gauges around the metal pipes that stretch up, down and across the facility.
In the hush of the control room, away from the hiss of steam and hum of heavy machinery, the refining process is monitored closely on a bank of computer screens.
PHRC boss Bafred Enjugu sees it as a sign that Nigeria — Africa’s biggest oil producer — is finally “domesticating” the refining of crude into products, thus improving its energy security and ending a reliance on costly imports.
The talk is of job creation, national pride and the chance to help revive an economy badly hurt by the fall in global oil prices as well as providing fuel for the increasing demands of a growing population.
“To give up on the refineries is like giving up on Nigeria. That’s how strongly I believe about it and we can’t afford to do that,” the PHRC managing director told AFP.
“We can’t go home and tell our children that we have failed to provide the right platform to take off.”
– Stop the rot –
The Port Harcourt refinery is Nigeria’s oldest, built in 1965, nine years after oil was found under the marshy soil and creeks of the delta, where the Niger river runs off into the Gulf of Guinea.
Refineries in nearby Warri, and Kaduna in the north central region, were built in the years that followed, while a new plant was added to the same site in Port Harcourt in 1989.
In recent years, however, the facilities have been more idle than operational.
OPEC-member Nigeria instead sent much of the 1.8 million barrels of crude it now produces daily to foreign facilities, buying back refined products such as petrol at market prices.
By the end of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, just how reliant Nigeria had become on imports became clear when a dispute between marketers and the government caused a crippling fuel shortage.
Muhammadu Buhari, elected on an anti-corruption ticket, replaced Jonathan in late May, days after the blockade was lifted, and vowed to end years of graft and mismanagement.
Less than a month later, the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of which PHRC is a subsidiary, said all four refineries would resume operations.
Buhari, who accused Jonathan and his predecessors of having “run down” the refineries since the return to civilian rule in 1999, then sacked the entire NNPC board.
A probe was ordered into “mind-boggling” sums of oil revenue allegedly diverted into private accounts, and a Harvard-educated lawyer was named to run the NNPC and make it commercially viable.
– ‘Thorough overhaul’ –
Enjugu’s efforts and optimism reflect what appears to be a new era and mindset at the NNPC.
The new group managing director, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has promised to uproot the firm’s “anything goes” culture and warned of sackings for under-performance.
The Port Harcourt refineries can refine up to 210,000 barrels of crude a day but are currently operating at 60 percent of capacity.
“After 14 years we have had to clean up, to do a thorough overhaul of the system,” explained Enjugu.
Recurrent pipeline vandalism also means deliveries of crude can for now only come by ship, slowing down the process.
But Enjugu was hopeful targets to boost output can be met within the government-imposed three-month limit to the end of November and the workforce was committed to the task.
“We will make the country proud again… People want to deliver, people want to prove that there is a fortune to be made,” he said.
– ‘Responsible, transparent’ –
Buhari, who stares down from a portrait on Enjugu’s wall, helped launch the NNPC in 1977.
In recent years, however, it became a byword for corruption: a murky, state-run body where billions of dollars in revenue apparently disappeared.
But since Buhari’s election and pledge to get tough on endemic corruption, Enjugu, significantly, has new watchwords.
The Group managing director “made it very clear and quickly reminds us of being responsible,” he added.
“But most importantly it’s about being transparent. Transparency means whatever we do, we show. The world is fairly well-connected now. There’s enough information to do this transparency.
“I think the issue of corruption can definitely not be there… I think we will bring back the good opinion of NNPC.”
On the ground, workers in boiler suits and hard hats inspect the tanks, valves and gauges around the metal pipes that stretch up, down and across the facility.
In the hush of the control room, away from the hiss of steam and hum of heavy machinery, the refining process is monitored closely on a bank of computer screens.
PHRC boss Bafred Enjugu sees it as a sign that Nigeria — Africa’s biggest oil producer — is finally “domesticating” the refining of crude into products, thus improving its energy security and ending a reliance on costly imports.
The talk is of job creation, national pride and the chance to help revive an economy badly hurt by the fall in global oil prices as well as providing fuel for the increasing demands of a growing population.
“To give up on the refineries is like giving up on Nigeria. That’s how strongly I believe about it and we can’t afford to do that,” the PHRC managing director told AFP.
“We can’t go home and tell our children that we have failed to provide the right platform to take off.”
– Stop the rot –
The Port Harcourt refinery is Nigeria’s oldest, built in 1965, nine years after oil was found under the marshy soil and creeks of the delta, where the Niger river runs off into the Gulf of Guinea.
Refineries in nearby Warri, and Kaduna in the north central region, were built in the years that followed, while a new plant was added to the same site in Port Harcourt in 1989.
In recent years, however, the facilities have been more idle than operational.
OPEC-member Nigeria instead sent much of the 1.8 million barrels of crude it now produces daily to foreign facilities, buying back refined products such as petrol at market prices.
By the end of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, just how reliant Nigeria had become on imports became clear when a dispute between marketers and the government caused a crippling fuel shortage.
Muhammadu Buhari, elected on an anti-corruption ticket, replaced Jonathan in late May, days after the blockade was lifted, and vowed to end years of graft and mismanagement.
Less than a month later, the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of which PHRC is a subsidiary, said all four refineries would resume operations.
Buhari, who accused Jonathan and his predecessors of having “run down” the refineries since the return to civilian rule in 1999, then sacked the entire NNPC board.
A probe was ordered into “mind-boggling” sums of oil revenue allegedly diverted into private accounts, and a Harvard-educated lawyer was named to run the NNPC and make it commercially viable.
– ‘Thorough overhaul’ –
Enjugu’s efforts and optimism reflect what appears to be a new era and mindset at the NNPC.
The new group managing director, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has promised to uproot the firm’s “anything goes” culture and warned of sackings for under-performance.
The Port Harcourt refineries can refine up to 210,000 barrels of crude a day but are currently operating at 60 percent of capacity.
“After 14 years we have had to clean up, to do a thorough overhaul of the system,” explained Enjugu.
Recurrent pipeline vandalism also means deliveries of crude can for now only come by ship, slowing down the process.
But Enjugu was hopeful targets to boost output can be met within the government-imposed three-month limit to the end of November and the workforce was committed to the task.
“We will make the country proud again… People want to deliver, people want to prove that there is a fortune to be made,” he said.
– ‘Responsible, transparent’ –
Buhari, who stares down from a portrait on Enjugu’s wall, helped launch the NNPC in 1977.
In recent years, however, it became a byword for corruption: a murky, state-run body where billions of dollars in revenue apparently disappeared.
But since Buhari’s election and pledge to get tough on endemic corruption, Enjugu, significantly, has new watchwords.
The Group managing director “made it very clear and quickly reminds us of being responsible,” he added.
“But most importantly it’s about being transparent. Transparency means whatever we do, we show. The world is fairly well-connected now. There’s enough information to do this transparency.
“I think the issue of corruption can definitely not be there… I think we will bring back the good opinion of NNPC.”
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