Day: December 10, 2020

Shell dismisses alleged staff involvement in pipeline vandalism

Efe Wellington

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has dismissed a report alleging that its staff were involved in crude oil pipeline vandalism for a gain, describing the report as lacking substance and without proof. “SPDC does not have any formal report of named SPDC staff members or contractors involved in pipeline vandalism or crude oil theft,” SPDC’s Media Relations Manager, Bamidele Odugbesan, said in a statement on Thursday. “SPDC, like other Shell companies globally, investigates all credible reports it receives of misconduct or unethical behaviour and takes robust action…

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Nigerian Army General dies at COAS Annual Confab, raises COVID-19 scare

Aliyu Aliyu

  The General Officer Commanding of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Major General Olubunmi Irefin, is dead. His death has reportedly raised COVID-19 scare aming military leadership in the Africa’s most populous nation. According to available information, the amiable General died at the ongoing Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference, which was hurriedly discontinued over the development. Information had filtered in earlier in the day that the COAS Annual Conference was discontinued because a participant tested positive for COVID-19. The spokesman of the…

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Troubles as Ghana Ex-President Mahama’s Party rejects Akufo-Addo’s Victory

Aoko Benjamin

An official result declared by the Ghana’s Electoral Commission which showed the incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner, has been rejected, a move that has started to heat up the polity and caused tension in the West Africa nation. Ghana Police also confirned that five people were killed in election-related violence. The ex-President John Mahama’s National Democratic Congress party has been talking tough as it rejected the results. The party stated this at a press conference where it also described the result as terribly flawed. A party chieftain, Haruna…

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High-Profile Executives’ Resignations Rock Shell

Efe Wellington

  Royal Dutch Shell has been hit by the departure of several high-profile executives in clean energy amid a split over how far and fast the oil giant should shift towards greener fuels, Financial Times (FT) has reported. Marc van Gerven, who headed the solar, storage and onshore wind businesses at Shell, Eric Bradley, who worked in Shell’s distributed energy division, and Katherine Dixon, a leader in its energy transition strategy team, have all left the company in recent weeks. Dorine Bosman, Shell’s vice-president for offshore wind, is also due…

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