Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO) has said that the oil spill at its Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 Wellhead at Nembe in Bayelsa has been contained substantially. The OML 29 Wellhead in Santa Barbara South Field, which AEEPCO jointly owns with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which blew up on November 3, is being pumped with chemicals to contain further leakage in “one or two days”. The firm’s Global Group Director/Coordinator, Mr Andrew Oru, said during a tour of the facility with reporters on Thursday that the spill was of a special type – a gas blowout –…
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The National Population Commission (NPC) has trained field officers for a second census test-run in 12 designated Enumeration Areas in four local government areas in Bayelsa. The local government areas are Yenagoa, Ekeremor, Sagbama and Southern Ijaw. The field officers will administer questionnaires in the trial census in the Enumeration Areas from December 3 to December 10. Gloria Izonfuo, Federal Commissioner, NPC in Bayelsa said on Friday in Yenagoa that the commission conducted the first pre-test earlier to test-run the census instruments. She said the NPC decided to conduct a second test-run to improve on its preparedness for the actual…
An oldest district head in Kano, Mukhtar Adnan is reported dead. He was the Sarkin Ban Kano (District Head of Dambatta) and first commissioner of education in Kano. Adnan died in the early hours of Friday after a brief illness according to family sources. Sir Muhammadu Sanusi I, then Emir of Kano appointed Adnan as Sarkin Bai in 1954 to succeed his father. According to a historian and writer on Kano Emirate, Ibrahim Ado Kurawa, Adnan was born in 1926. He attended Dambatta Elementary School, Kano Middle School and Zaria Clerical School. Adnan started his working career in the Kano…
The World Health Organisation, WHO, says African countries are stepping up measures to detect and control the spread of the Omicron variant. The organization in a statement on Thursday said the development became necessary as weekly new COVID-19 cases in the continent rose by 54 per cent due to an upsurge in southern Africa. According to WHO, the Omicron variant has now been detected in four African countries, namely Botswana, South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria, while more than 20 countries have detected the variant to date. Botswana and South Africa account for 62 per cent of cases reported globally, said…
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), has convened a special National Council on Health (NCH) meeting, where all state commissioners of health and other stakeholders in the health sector will review the gains and lessons learnt from COVID-19 management, towards building a more resilient health sector in Nigeria. At the opening of a two-day NCH meeting on Thursday, in Abuja, the Minister for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said that Nigerians must remain alert as new variants of the virus which are more contagious and virulent, power new waves of infections. The 2021 NCH theme: “The Journey to Attaining Sustainable Development…
By Habibu Harisu Under the UNDP climate change support programme, 26 youth have volunteered to nurse 250 planted trees in Illela local government area of Sokoto state. Tagged: “Sahel Youth Eco-brigade Tree Planting Exercise in Border Communities,” is designed to engage youths in environmental conservation and tracking of small arms in sub-Sahara Africa. The tree-nursing exercise, themed: “Yes to Greening, No to Illicit Arms’’ was inaugurated in schools and residential areas in Illela, a border town shared between Nigeria and Niger Republic. The coordinator and UNDP programme analyst, Mr Jonathan Madawaki said the project was to encourage youths to be…
The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG has warned that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari can by all standards of judgement be categorised a failed state even as a former speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, expressed concern over the deepening distrust in the country, saying the current leadership has created mistrust among Nigerians. Na’Abba who spoke at the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series at the Nasarawa state University with the theme, “Constitution, Constitutionalism and the future of Nigeria” organised by the Students wing of the CNG, stressed the need for the federal government to secure the nation’s forests…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the spread of new Omicron variant to 23 countries in five of its six regions. The Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus disclosed in Geneva on Wednesday, saying that the number of cases was expected to grow. “WHO takes this development extremely seriously, and so should every country,” he told journalists listening in to the agency’s regular virtual briefing on COVID-19. “But it should not surprise us. This is what viruses do. And it’s what this virus will continue to do, as long as we allow it to continue spreading,” he said. According to WHO,…
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has said that calls for pardoning the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is premature. Malami, giving the position when he appeared as a guest on ChannelsTV’s Politics Today on Wednesday explained that the trials associated with Kanu were not concluded, a situation that could not be pave the way pardon. “Pardon is a function of conviction in the Nigerian context and as far as I know, Nnamdi Kanu has not been convicted yet so the idea of pardoning him is premature,” the AGF…
Hoodlums in Kano on Thursday morning, partly set ablaze the gubernatorial campaign office of Sen. Barau Jibrin, a perceived political opponent of the state governor Abdullahi Ganduje. Solacebase also reports that the hoodlums destroyed part of the office. In their hundreds, they attacked the campaign office and proceeded to Ahmadu Zago-led factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, state office at Gyadi-Gyadi quarters and also set it ablaze. ASHENEWS recalls that Kano state government sealed the office of a lawyer to House of Representatives member Shaaban Sharada.