The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says Nigeria’s crude oil production declined to an average of 1.417 million barrels per day in February 2022. OPEC in its Oil Market Report for March 2022 on Tuesday, said the figure showed a decrease of 10,000 barrels per day when compared to the 1.427mb/d produced averagely in the month of January 2021. “According to secondary sources, total OPEC-13 crude oil production averaged 28.47 mb/d in February 2022, higher by 0.44 mb/d Month-on-Month. “Crude oil output increased mainly in Saudi Arabia and Libya, while production in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea declined,” the report…
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says agriculture can be a significant contributor to government coffers amid tight fiscal revenue generation, especially in the states of the federation. Osinbajo’s Spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the vice president received on a courtesy visit to the Presidential Villa, a delegation from the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission. Osinbajo, who spoke after listening to a presentation on the commission’s framework for sustainable agricultural transformation in the states, said all it took was hard work and dedication of all stakeholders in the sector to boost revenue. “Agriculture can…
Terrorists have reportedly attacked the Divisional Police Office in Nasko town of Niger state and killed the DPO, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Umar Digari and two other officers on Tuesday. PRNigeria reports that a security source said that the terrorists were on revenge mission after the recent attack on their hideouts and recovery of rustled cows. “Recently a led a police team and vigilante in an operation leading to the killing of bandits and recovery of over 800 rustled cows. “He was having a meeting with his security team for another operation when the bandits suddenly surrounded the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun the process to vacate a court order restraining the party from conducting its national convention. APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) National Secretary, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, disclosed this while briefing reporters at the party’s secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja. “The party has engaged a team of senior lawyers to address a purported court order halting the planned APC National Convention,” he said. “We hereby call on the judiciary to give the matter the needed and expedient attention in our bid to vacate the purported court order and allow for the conduct of a…
By Racheal Abujah The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says investing in Primary Healthcare Centres, PHCs, has remained a cornerstone for preventing maternal and child mortality in Nigeria. Dr. Eduardo Celades Blanco, UNICEF Nigeria Chief of Health, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja saying that 200 women die of preventable diseases in Nigeria annually. Blanco said that the COVID-19 pandemic had highlighted the importance of investing in PHCs and there were no better time to sustain such investment in the PHCs and for the country to build back better with resilient, affordable and accessible health care for its…
Ahead of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a frontline Chairmanship aspirant, Saliu Mustapha, has purchased the nomination form, thereby becoming the first among other contestants to do so. Mustapha, a long-time ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, is a former Deputy National Chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressives Congress (CPC). The APC Caretaker Extra Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) announced the sale nomination of form on Tuesday in a statement by its Director of Organisation, Prof. Al-Mustapha Ussiju. Represented by Director General of the Saliu Mustapha Campaign Organisation (SAMCO), Ballah Usman, Mustapha said the convention was…
The Ebonyi Police Command has confirmed the killing of four persons in an attack on the facility on the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) facility on Tuesday. The spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah who confirmed the incident said that security agencies killed two of the gunmen, while others escaped with injuries at the incident that occurred at Ntezi. “Too bad, one of the officers and a patient at the NDLEA rehabilitation center were also killed. “The security agencies are still searching the bush to get some of the gunmen, who were injured,” she said. The spokesperson added that two riffles…
In discharging its corporate social responsibility, BUA Cement has supported seven Sokoto communities with N62 million worth of water supply and electrification projects. The Managing Director of the company, Engr Yusuf Binji disclosed this on Tuesday while handing over a completed borehole to members of Gidan Gamba village in Wamakko local government area of the state. Represented by the company’s Head, Administration and Corporate Services, Sada Suleiman, Binji said that each of the water projects at Gidan Gamba and Girabshe communities is comprised of two units of 10,000 gallons per day. According to him, the electrification project covers Rugar Waru…
A socio-professional organisation, “Gov Yahaya Bello Lawyers Volunteer Campaign Forum”, with national outreach across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has called on leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to be cautious and play the game of politics by the rules. In a released its National Coordinator, Barr Chilaka Igidi, jointly signed along with the six zonal coordinators, the forum identified with His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari in his recent directive mandating Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee and Extra-ordinary Convention Committee (CCECC) to conduct the March 26 APC National Convention. The…
Operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 11, 2022 arrested Osondu Igwilo, who has been on the watch list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, since 2018. The 52 year-old Igwilo, who is the alleged leader of a criminal network of “catchers’’ was arrested alongside Okafor Nnamdi Chris, Nwodu Uchenna Emmaunel and John Anazo Achukwu at a studio in the Sangotedo area of Lagos for an alleged fraud, money laundering and identity theft to the tune of about $100m. Before their arrest, Igwilo and his accomplices had allegedly been involved in…