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The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has said an account had been set up for the funds. “An account has been set up for it and at an appropriate time, what is going to be done with the money will be made public. The amount that is available in that account will be announced and what ...
Editorial
June, 2016
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6 June
Fed Govt loses N1.3b daily to Avengers’ attacks on oil facilities
Sustained attacks on pipelines by Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) have led to the daily loss of 140,000 barrels of crude from oil fields operated in Bayelsa State by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and Aiteo Oil, it was learnt yesterday. Using $48 per barrel price benchmark, the two oil firms are losing an estimated $6.72m (about N1.3 billion). Eni, an ...
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6 June
Presidency Admits Buhari’s Ear Infection, Off to Hospital In UK
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday begin a 10-day vacation to attend to an ear infection that has forced him to shelve some local and foreign trips lately.According to a statement on Sunday evening by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President is currently battling with what he called “a persistent ear infection.” The presidential ...
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5 June
Benin DISCO attributes poor power supply to low generation
Benin Electricity Distribution Plc. (BEDC) has attributed the degenerating level of electricity supply to its customers in its operational areas of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti States to low power generation received from the national grid occasioned by gas shortage due to pipeline vandalism. This was disclosed last Friday by the company’s chief head, Edo State, Engr. Fidelis Obishai at ...
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4 June
Military Ready For Militants, deploys additional aircraft to Niger Delta
The Nigerian Air Force has deployed additional aircraft to the Niger Delta in support of the military operations code named: OPERATION PULO SHIELD. The operation is to check militancy, economic sabotage and all forms of criminalities in the South South region of the country. The Nigerian Air Froce said the deployment of the additional aircraft was necessitated by the recent ...
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4 June
Panic over militants’ missile threat
Threat by a militant group, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), to launch six missiles in the Niger Delta from Tuesday has sparked panic in the geo-political zone. Residents of Rivers, Delta and Bayelsa states in particular are apprehensive of the likely effects of the missile launch on an area that is already in turmoil over the spate of attacks ...
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3 June
Buhari, Obasanjo In Crucial Meeting @ Aso Rock
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met behind closed doors with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Presidential Villa. He arrived the Villa in the company of Otumba Johnson Fasawe around 12.30 p.m. The meeting was still in progress at the time of filing this report.
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3 June
Militants In Sporadic Blow-Ups In N/Delta Today
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the militant group which has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks on oil installations, says it has blown up a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) oil facility. The Forcados pipeline, which transports 250,000 barrels per day, was first bombed in February and had just undergone reserves. NDA also said it had hit the Brass to ...
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3 June
FG Blow Hot @ Ogoni Clean-Up Launching,Make Promises
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday sounded a note of warning that oil theft and illegal refining will not be tolerated. He also charged regulators of the oil industry to ensure that oil companies operate within international standards. The President spoke in Bodo, Rivers State when he inaugurated the clean-up of oil spill in Ogoni, Rivers State. President Buhari was represented by ...
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3 June
Ogoni cleanup: Jonathan’s Loss Is Buhari’s Gain- Amaechi
Minister of Transport and former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has said that immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, clearly turned his deaf ears to the plight of the Ogoni people and the Niger Delta in general. Amaechi, who in his address at the flag-off of the implementation of the UNEC report on Ogoniland acknowledged the presence of his successor, ...
