Day: November 19, 2020

Era of $30/bbl production cost gone, NNPC tells foreign, local oil firms

Efe Wellington

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has declared to Oil producers in the country that the era at which they are allowed to spend $30 to produce a barrel of crude oil no longer exist. NNPC has earlier begun aggresive action to get oil producers in the country to produce at $10 per barrel and the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, stated on Thursday that the COVID-19 hangover on Nigeria’s oil economy, which dipped oil price in the region of $30 – $40 per barrel,…

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Nigeria Threatens Sanction Against CNN, says news ‘Irresponsible Reporting’

Aliyu Aliyu

Nigeria Threatens Sanction Against CNN, says news on Lekki Tollgate ‘Irresponsible Reporting’ The Nigerian Government has threatened to sanction CNN over its report on the Lekki shooting. On Wednesday, CNN published its investigation on the incident, alleging that soldiers used live bullets on #EndSARS protesters who had converged on Lekki tollgate on October 20. The army insists that its men only fired blank bullets in the air to disperse the protesters. Speaking at the news conference on Thursday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, described the alleged killing at the Lekki…

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Confusion as Nigeria announces highest COVID-19 figures in 9 days

Precious Ibekwe

  . Lagos Tops With 142 Infections As NCDC Confirms 236 New Cases The COVID-19 infection figures in Nigeria have started rising again as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) latest data showed 236 new coronavirus infections, highest in nine days. The figures, which have started to cause confusion and raise questions about whether the second wave of the infection has begun, are from 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The agency confirmed the new positive samples in its update for November 18, 2020. Wednesday’s figure is…

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Man Imprisons, impregnates wife inside cage thrice in four Years

Precious Ibekwe

A 41-year-old man, Ame Edjeketa, has been arrested for allegedly imprisoning his wife in a fabricated cage for four years in their residence at Orerokpe community in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State. Prior to this, the victim, a mother of three, Gladys, was accused of witchcraft. It took the intervention of a civil society group, Behind Bars Initiative, before she regained her freedom on Wednesday. An activist, Harrison Gwamishuu, of the Behind Bars Initiative, revealed that the victim, who hails from Ozoro but married the suspect, an indigene…

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How Nigeria’s Ogun Poly lecturer was assassinated + PHOTOS

Damilola Olonade

  Police has begun a man-hunt for killers of 34-year old First Class graduate of Obafemi Awolowo Universtity (OAU), and former Associate lecturer at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), assasinated outside D.S Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic’s gate The Head, Public Relations Unit of the D.S. Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Itori, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Yinka Adegbite, has given graphical details of how gunmen, suspected to be hired assassins, killed Mufutau Waliu, the Head of Department of Electrical and Electronics at the institution. Waliu was a First Class graduate of Obafemi Awolowo Universtity (OAU),…

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