The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has confirmed oil spill from its facility at Agbura-Otuokpoti area of Yenagoa, the state capital. The comapny’s Media Relations Manager, Bamidele Odugbesan, confirmed the incident in an interview in Yenagoa on Friday. Odugbesan said the company got a report of the spill on March 31. “At about 8.30am on March 31, a community surveillance vendor reported a leak on the company’s Joint Venture pipeline at Nun River in Bayelsa. “Following the development, the facility was shut down and full isolation established at 09.45am. “The SPDC Oil Spill Response Team was mobilised to the spill…
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The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has said that the use of thugs during elections portends great danger to the nation’s democracy. Kalu said this on Friday, while inspecting the ongoing construction of the two-kilometer Akama and Ugwuavor Roads in Arochukwu. The road was one of the 19 constituency road projects the lawmaker attracted to Abia North Senatorial District. He spoke against the backdrop of last Saturday’s Aba North/Aba South Federal Constituency bye-election, which was reportedly marred by thuggery and violence. He called on Nigerians of good conscience and believers in democracy to condemn thuggery in it’s…
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, a human rights campaigner, on Saturday confirmed the passing of her husband, Yinka, after a brief illness. Okei-Odumakin, also the President of Women Arise, made the announcement in a statement in Lagos. She said “The sad event happened on Saturday morning at the intensive care unit of LASUTH where he was being managed for respiratory issues due to complications from COVID-19 which he had recovered from about a week ago. “I appreciate the outpouring of grief and sympathy from home and abroad as I mourn my irreplaceable soulmate.” She urged all to remain steadfast in the cause…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s order issued to security chiefs, to fish out sponsors of terrorism and other criminal activities responsible for insecurity in the country, seem to be yielding results. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on April 1 made important arrest, the Presidential aide on Digital and Social Media, Lauretta Onichie, disclosed on her tweeter handle @Laurestar. The suspect, a 35-year-old Chadian national, Adama Uomar Issa is hard drug provider for Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria, who procures narcotics for the insurgents in Taraba State, North East. “The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, @ndlea_nigeria, has arrested a member of…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 66 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,063. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle late Friday. The country’s daily infection rate continues to reduce, from an all-time high of 2,314 on Jan. 22, to 48 as of March 29. The public health agency said the new infections were recorded from nine states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to the latest data released, Enugu state led with 18 cases, followed by Lagos with 17, Kaduna with 10,…
A member of the House of Representatives for Jos North/Bassa Constituency, Haruna Maitala, his son Jafaru, a legislative aide and his driver were confirmed dead on Saturday in an auto accident. A reliable source said that the lawmaker and the three others died in a vehicle crash on Friday evening. Mr Abdulkadir Abubakar, Senior Legislative Aide to the lawmaker also confirmed that Maitala, along with the others, was on his way to Jos from Abuja when the accident occurred. “I am not familiar with the road but the accident occurred around Kwoi-Kafachan-Jos Road. “He died alongside his son, his legislative…
A legal luminary and founder of the Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babakoka, SAN, said on Friday that the university had spent N476.8 million as financial rewards to outstanding students. The Head, Corporate Affairs of the university, Mr Tunde Olofintila who disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, quoted Babalola while addressing a special session of the Senate. The rewards, according to the ABUAD founder and visitor, represented the total amount that he spent so far on scholarships for students who excelled in their various courses in the last seven years. Babalola…
The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has dismissed as false, the video being circulated purporting the shooting by Boko Haram insurgents, the Alpha Jet. The dismissal is contained in a statement by NAF’s spokesperson, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet on Friday. According to Gabkwet, “most parts of the video were deliberately doctored to give the false impression that the aircraft was shot down,” while disclosing that it was still being analysed. NAF argued that “it is almost impossible for an aircraft to have exploded mid-air, in the manner depicted in the video, and still have a good part of its fuselage, including…
By the time we remove hatred, malice, indecent politics, and all the ills that plague our country and its leaderships across different governments, President Muhammadu Buhari would go down in history as the one that pioneered different kinds of revolution in our national life: agriculture, infrastructure (roads, rail, bridges, airports etc), and the latest; gas. In fact, Nigeria is set to fly on the wings of gas, courtesy President Buhari. But let me give due credit for the headline of this piece, which is the brainchild of Mr Tony Attah, Managing Director of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG). At the…
Shoprite workers at Ring Road branch, Ibadan, on Friday, embarked on another round of protest, shutting down the company indefinitely. The workers, under the aegis of National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees (NUSDE), vowed that the company would remain shut until management acceded to their demands. The Chairman, NUSDE, Shoprite branch, Mr Williams Peter, said in Ibadan that the union was using the Easter period to press home its demands since dialogue had failed. He stated that all Shoprite stores had been shut down nationwide because the negotiation between the union and the management had been deadlocked. Peter attributed…