Day: July 2, 2020

AKK: Oando Underscores Public-Private Partnership for Nigeria’s goal actualisation

Efe Wellington

  Group Chief Executive, Oando Plc, one of the Partner-contractors on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline Project, Jubril Adewale Tinubu, joined other Executives to attend Presidential Flag Off Ceremony of the project, where he underscored Public Private Partnership in accelerating the actualization of the Nigeria’s goals. The company is a partner in a two party consortium consisting of Oilserv Limited and Oando PLC (Oilserv-Oando PLC consortium) handling the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) mandate for segment 1, accounting for 40” by 303.4km linear pipeline system for the Ajaokuta to Kaduna…

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172 Nigerian evacuees from Kenya, Uganda test for COVID-19

Tim Bauer

  The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission says 172 Nigerian evacuated from Uganda and Kenya have been subjected to COVID-19 test. They arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10:20am local time on Wednesday. The commission disclosed this in a statement by Gabriel Odu of its Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit. Odu said the evacuees arrived via Air Peace Flight B777-200 from Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. According to him, some of the evacuees disembarked at the airport in Abuja, while others proceeded to the Murtala Muhammed International…

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Nigerian Court jails two for assault on EKEDC female staff

Micheal Olatunji

  Two people  who assaulted a female staff of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), a top utility firm that connects Lagos – Nigeria’s commercial capital – to the grid, have been jailed. A Magistrate court sitting in Agbara Ogun State presided over by B. O. Ilo on Tuesday June 30, 2020, sentenced Adetayo Adefila and Faith Ogunmade to three months imprisonment for assaulting the Field Representative of Eko Electricity Distribution Company while going about her official duties on behalf of the Company. This was contained in a statement released by…

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