The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has announced that it recorded a huge leap in trading surplus amounting to ₦141.96 billion in June 2021. This the company said is compared to a deficit of ₦37.46 billion recorded in May the same year. This is contained in the June 2021 figures of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR). A trading surplus or trading deficit is derived after deduction of the expenditure profile from the revenue for the period under review, a statement by the company’s spokesperson Garba Deen on Sunday, said. “In June 2021, NNPC Group operating revenue…
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Three secondary schools in Sokoto have won projects exhibition contest organised by the state University Students International chapter of the American Chemical Society. Two students of Alheri Schools, Guiwa and a student of Airan International School Bado, all in Sokoto, won the Society’s 2021 Global Challenge Science Fair for Young Scientists project exhibition contest. In the exhibition which had eight contestants with different innovations, Ahmed Mohammed of Alheri Schools, emerged first position; Safiya Aminu of Airan International School, Bado, came second and Fatima Bala of Alheri Schools emerged third. The first position won a prize of N120,000; second position went…
In further reaction to attacks and recent burning to death of dozens of travellers in Sokoto state, the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has mobilzed to the state vowing to extract justice for the innocent victims. Confirming the development in a statement on Sunday, the spokesperson for the CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said the entire leadership of the Coalition from all the 19 Northern states have arrived Sokoto. “We are hear to engage families of the victims, the endangered communities in Sokoto and Kebbi, religious clerics and other civil society groups to discuss urgent practical action plan to force government to…
ECOWAS leaders in Nigeria on Sunday, began deliberations on crucial sub-regional and continental matters, including reports on political crises in Mali and Guinea Conakry. The meeting, hosted by President Muhammadu Buhari, has President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS Authority, Nana Akufo-Addo in attendance. Others are President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema and President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic. Also in attendance are President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau, President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone and President Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde. President Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde is participating in the…
…2 Nigeriens nabbed in Delta, 1million Tramadol capsules seized in Ondo, 453.673kg others in Anambra, Kogi Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Ghanaian and two Nigerians at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Akanu Ibiam international Airport, Enugu, respectively for trafficking a total of 9.953 kilograms of cocaine and methamphetamine. The spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi in a statement made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday, said “one of the suspects, Uzoh Ndubuisi Johnson was arrested on Wednesday 8th December 2021 at about 5.30pm during an inward screening of Ethiopian Airlines passengers at…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday evening hosted leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to a pre-Conference dinner at the Presidential Villa, ahead of the 60th Session of the bloc. Mr Sunday Aghaeze, Personal Assistant to the President (Photography) confirmed this in pictorial reports of the event. Those who attended the dinner included President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS Authority, Nana Akufo-Addo; President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe; and President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic. Others were President Macky Sall of Senegal; President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau; President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone; and President…
Terrorists in fresh attack on Gatawa village in Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto state on Friday, kidnapped the chief imam, Aminu Garba and 10 other persons during a congregational prayer. They also blocked Sabon Birni-Gatawa road, shot three persons and kidnapped seven others on Saturday. The member, representing Sabon Birni South constituency in the state assembly, Sa’idu Ibrahim confirmed the attack, adding that the injured persons were currently receiving treatment at the Sokoto Othopeadic hospital in Wamakko. He said another woman who was shot at Dama village got her leg amputated because it could not be fixed. The…
Our current situation of a glaring failure of the rule of law must disturb any Nigerian who has come of age. The average citizen today lives in fear. When you retire into your house, you pray to God to deliver you from evil marauders who have removed peace from the calmness of the night. When the sun rises, you again rely on God to protect you from those who have become the law unto themselves. In Nigeria today, the rule of law has taken flight. Charlatans carrying guns that are daily becoming accessible to any riff-raff who wants to own…
By Festus Adedayo Does Bisi Akande know that, whether on issues of security, economy, social or political, butcherbirds have taken over Nigeria? Does he know that under Buhari, Nigerians groan daily? If he knew, why shower butcherbirds with eulogies if you are not one? As former governor of Osun State and pioneer Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, got ready to launch his autobiography in Lagos last Friday, a day before the launch, one very unAfrican event occurred in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. Christophe Joseph-Marie Dabiré, the West African country’s Prime Minister, presented his letter…
Terrorists have killed one Pastor Dauda Bature who was in charge of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) parish in the Narayi area of Chikun local government area of Kaduna state, ChannelsTV has reported. Abducted by the terrorists on November 8, Bature was killed despite the payment of an unspecified amount of money to his captors as a ransom for his release. Police authorities in Kaduna were yet to react to the killing, but a top member of the church confirmed the death of the clergyman to ChannelsTV on Saturday. The source explained that the bandits kidnapped Bature on November…