Chevron Nigeria Limited, operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd., and Chevron has secured a $1.4 billion financing to fund for infill drilling programme to run from 2022 to 2026. A statement by CNL’s General Manager Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Mr Esimaje Brikinn on Saturday, said the financing arrangement was executed on November 30. The project included the drilling of 37 wells in the offshore and onshore Escravos area. According to the statement, the project will help to monetise reserves and increase production by arresting decline and supporting domestic gas supply. The statement added…
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The Nigerian Army Infantry Corps (Queen of the Battle) shone like a million stars at the just-concluded Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) 2022 Merit Awards. The infantry emerged the best as it came first among all others. This is contained in a statement on Friday in Kaduna by Capt. AS Ajibola, the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Headquarters Infantry Corps Centre Jaji, Kaduna. He said the Infantry Corps and its officers performed outstandingly and had the highest recipients of awards in various categories. Ajibola said that the Commander Infantry Corps, Maj.-Gen. Victor Ezugwu, received the corps commendation award, also known…
Wife of the Lagos state governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu has said that the first public school with a ramp specially designed for physically challenged students, in Ohombo, Ajah, has been completed. Sanwo-Olu said this in her address at the 2022 International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) event held on Friday, at Police College, Ikeja. The governor’s wife was represented by Mrs. Olufunmilayo Omotoso, wife of the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy. She said that the project was in partnership with the Lagos State Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Secondary Schools, built to facilitate easy movement of the…
Imo Police Command says it repelled an attack on the building of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) located in Orlu LGA in Imo by the suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The command further disclosed that the hoodlums, who attacked the INEC facility, later retreated with bullet wounds after they suffered huge defeat from the tactical team of the command. The Command spokeperson, CSP Mike Abatam disclosed the foiled attack in a statement signed on behalf of the CP Mohammed Barde on Thursday. He said minimal damage was sustained as a result of the explosive device…
The Police in Borno said that eight lost their in a clash between farmers and herders over alleged land encroachment in Bayo local government area of in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Abdu Umar confirmed the incident at a meeting with leaders of farmer association and Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN), on Friday in Maiduguri. He said report indicated that violence erupted on November 30, over alleged encroachment of farmlands and murder of a farmer by unidentified assailants in the area. “Eight persons killed including children while 47 houses and six motorcycles burnt,” he said. He said the police…
By Cecilia Ologunagba On November 23, 2022, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on the “Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the United Nations.” The resolution is expected to lay the foundation for the creation of a new system of international tax cooperation that should be universal in scope and approach. With this, Member States agreed for the first time to have a convention on Tax cooperation and to annually discuss global tax issues and review progress. The motion, submitted for consideration by Nigeria on behalf of 54- member African Group of States, was adopted…
By Rachael Fall I read an INCREDIBLE article written in French language on a Sierra Leone-based blog https://regardelinfo.com/2022/12/01/mama-ghana/ about Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. It seemed in the article that her life was ruined by a love affair between Papa Jerry Rawlings and and a lady, Nathalie Yamb. Under the guise of secrecy and because the memory of Jerry Rawlings cannot be desecrated, we are obscuring a part of our national Papa J even though he will remain an icon and symbol of Ghana’s renewal for eternity. If I didn’t learn much from this article, I mostly re-discovered that Jerry Rawlings…
For his 79th birthday, friends, colleagues, school mates and mentees of Professor Adele Jinadu convened a colloquium in Abuja on 30th November to celebrate his contributions to deepening democracy on the basis of knowledge and praxis of his discipline of political science. The crème de la crème of the community was there including Professors Okwudiba Nnoli, Tunde Adeniran, Attahiru Jega, Anthonia Simbine, Nuhu Yaqub, Kole Shettima and Saliu Hassan. Sam Oyovbaire and Bolaji Akinyemi sent messages of solidarity, while Ameze Guabadia spoke from her standpoint of a law professor and Professor Anthony Asiwaju spoke for historians. Okey Ibeanu and yours…
I am writing this article in pain, great pain, for reasons that have to do with my training and calling as a journalist, my conscience, or my moral sense of differentiating the right from the wrong, and how these values play a guide, in shaping my behaviour as a person. For the avoidance of any ambiguity, and in order to circumvent any misinterpretation on the position from where I am talking, I must make it clear that I am writing in my personal position as a Nigerian, a Human being, and one that believes in the ambition of the rule…
The Conference of Benue Journalists (CBJ) has expressed sadness over the death of a former Minister of Power and Steel in the Second Republic, Dr Paul Unongo. Unongo died at the age 87 on Tuesday. This is contained in statement by Dr Anule Emmanuel, President of CBJ on Thursday in Abuja. He said that Benue and indeed Nigeria has lost a neoteric in the late Unongo. “Unongo who served as minister of Steel Development in the second Republic is a foremost nationalist and a father figure who championed the liberation of ordinary citizens without sentiments. “Benue and indeed Nigeria has…