Dutch oil major, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has deplored a 10,000 barrels daily oil theft on its pipelines. It’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, said the economic sabotage amounts to over N2.2 million every 24 hours. He said the ...
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NPA Honours Members Of Staff, Promise To priorities Welfare Of Workers
The Managing Director of The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA Hadiza Bala Usman, has said it would stop at nothing in promoting professionalism, enhancing the welfare and wellbeing of its staffers who it believes are crucial to the country’s attainment of ...
Read More »NIMASA Advocates The Securing Of Gulf of Guinea ,Hosts Global Maritime Security Conference Oct. 7
The current Director-General/CEO of NIMASA, Nigeria’s principal maritime regulatory authority, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, who doubles as chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administrations AAMA, has been in the vanguard of developing and harnessing the blue economic potential in the ...
Read More »EU spent N170m monitoring 2019 polls, INEC declares
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) spent N170 million on this year’s general elections. Speaking in Kano while opening a two-day 2019 post-election review workshop, Yakubu ...
Read More »Army recovers, hands over stolen animals to Kaduna State government
The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army has recovered and handed over 14 sheep and 120 cows believed to have been rustled along Kaduna-Abuja highway to the Kaduna State Government. The division’s Garrison Commander of the Division, Brigadier General Jimmy ...
Read More »Global investment in renewable energy hits $2.5 trillion
Global investment in renewable from 2010 to 2019 is to hit $2.6 trillion, with more Gigawatts of solar power capacity installed than any other generation technology, the Global trend in Renewable Energy Investment 2019 report has shown. In the document ...
Read More »Tribunal dismisses more partitions in C’River, upholds A’Ibom’s N’Assembly election
The Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed five additional petitions in the state and ruled in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had filled the petitions against PDP candidates challenging ...
Read More »WANEP bemoans rising conflicts in Nigeria, unveils peace projects in six states
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria has lamented the increasingly violent conflicts in the country, which has resulted in wanton destruction of lives and property. This follows its establishment of a weekly live radio programme in seven states ...
Read More »Stakeholders blame delay in Ogoni cleanup on clumsy procurement processes
Stakeholders have identified the cumbersome procurement processes in awarding contracts and non-payment of firms handling the project as reasons for the delay in the cleanup of Ogoniland. They spoke yesterday at a joint meeting of Governing Council and Board of ...
Read More »EFCC arraigns professor, 48 Internet fraudsters, others over alleged fraud
A 60-year-old man, Charles Jide-Oni, who claimed to be a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile Ife, Osun State, was arraigned at a Federal High Court, Lagos for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence and advance fee fraud. ...
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