Nigeria’s Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, says the company’s domestic consumption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), popularly known as cooking gas, exceeded one million metric tonnes (MT) in 2020. The agency disclosed this in a statement signed by its executive secretary, Abdulkadir Saidu on Tuesday. He said the consumption rate made 2020 the first year in the nation’s history where LPG consumption had reached the one million MT threshold. “Nigeria consumed 840,594.37 MT LPG in 2019, indicating an increase of 60.5 per cent over 635,452.061MT recorded in 2018. “This steady and sustained pattern of growth culminating in the over…
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Up to 70 per cent of adults in the European Union should be vaccinated against the coronavirus by summer, according to the European Commission. The Brussels-based body plans to publish a corresponding proposal on Tuesday, dpa learned in advance. By March, the commission wants an interim goal of 80 per cent of people over 80 and of health workers to be reached. The targets are part of a discussion paper for the EU video summit on Thursday, which will focus on vaccination as the key topic as the 27 EU states work to coordinate their efforts to fight the pandemic. EU heads…
Twenty-six more U.S. soldiers and five civilians in South Korea tested positive for COVID-19, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said on Tuesday. The USFK said in a statement that 31 USFK-affiliated individuals were confirmed with the COVID-19 after arriving in South Korea between Dec. 29, and Jan. 18. Thirteen service members and three dependents arrived at Osan Air Base on U.S. government-chartered flights from the U.S. The Osan Air Base is located in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometres south of Seoul. Thirteen service members, one civilian and one dependent arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on international commercial flights. The confirmed…
At least 15 labourers were crushed to death by a truck in India early Tuesday while they were sleeping by a road, police said. The accident took place near a village in the Surat district in India’s western state of Gujarat, area police chief Varadbhai Patel said on phone. The dumper truck ran over the sleeping workers, killing 12 of them at the scene, Patel said. Eight were wounded and taken to hospital, where three more succumbed to injuries, he added. The workers were from the neighbouring state of Rajasthan. The truck driver lost control of his vehicle after it hit some…
Niger and six other nations lost their right to vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) because they have not paid their dues, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. The other countries losing their UNGA voting rights are Iran, Libya, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan and Zimbabwe, the Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Three more countries – Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia – will be allowed to continue to vote despite missing dues payments, because they sufficiently demonstrated that they are incapable of paying. Guterres wrote a letter to General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir…
Pope Francis has appointed the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah as a member of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Human Integral Development. This is contained in a letter dated 11th December, 2020, signed by the Prefect of the Dicastery, Cardinal Peter Turkson. Kukah will join other members of the Dicastery, to advise and promote Pope’s concerns on issues of justice and peace, human rights, torture, human trafficking, care of creation and other issues related to the promotion of human dignity and development. The appointment, which will be inaugurated formally on a yet-to-be-mentioned date, is renewable is for an…
Kano Investment and Diaspora, in partnership with the Foreign Commonwealth Development ((LINKS) and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) have secured a N10 billion intervention fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to revive companies impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the sensitization meeting on Kano Turnaround Project in Kano on Monday, the Director General of KanInvest & Diaspora, Hajiya Hama Ali, said the programme, which was designed to revive companies that had been affected by COVID-19 pandemic, would target at least 50 companies. She explained that the CBN initially donated N10 billion to the agency, for the project’s…
A peaceful protest against epileptic power supply in Kafanchan, Kaduna state, on Monday, turned violent as one person was shot by security operatives. The protesters stormed the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDCO), Kafanchan business office, in their numbers carrying placards with inscriptions: ‘Stop charging us high’, ‘Stop the blackout’, ‘Give us stable power supply. A protester was shot in the back and rushed to the hospital, as security operatives fired shots to disperse the angry mob, when the protest turned violent, with a car and some motorcycles at the KAEDCO office torched. Some of the protesters who spoke lamented that…
The newly elected council chairman of Bebeji local government, Ali Nnamandi is dead. His death, after a brief illness, is coming barely 48 hours after the announcement of local government election results by the chairman of Kano state Electoral Commission (KANSIEC), Prof. Garba Ibrshim Sheka. The All Progressives Congress, APC, Publicity committee chairman in the local government, Ibrahim Tiga in a statement made available to newsmen, said Nnamandi died in the early hours of Tuesday. According to the statement, the chairman-elect, suspected to have died from high blood pressure, drove himself to a nearest Hospital at the local government area,…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to quickly extend travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in much of Europe and Brazil, a spokeswoman for Biden said. Trump signed an order Monday lifting the restrictions he imposed early last year in response to the pandemic from Jan. 26, after winning support from coronavirus task force members and public health officials. Soon after Trump’s order was made public, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki tweeted “on the advice of our medical team, the Administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 1/26.” She added that “With the pandemic worsening,…