Day: March 22, 2021

How Another Super Eagles ex-Star was hospitalised, suffered, died + PHOTOS

Lukman Olasunkanmi

  Barnabas Imenger is the fourth ex-Super Eagle to die in 2021 after severe pains and hospitalisation for a protracted illness   Details have emerged on how Former Super Eagles midfielder and Lobi Stars team manager, Barnabas Imenger, was hospotalised, suffered and died. The year 2021 has witnessed the death of some former Nigeria internationals; including Joe Erico, Yisa Sofoluwe and  Jide Dina who died this month after a protracted illness. Imenger’s death was confirmed by Lobi Stars’ Media Officer, Austin Tyowua on Monday.. According to Mr Tyowua, Imenger died at…

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Outcry greets Kenyan fuel price hike, Petrol hit highest mark in 9 years

Aoko Benjamin

  Kenyan motorists flock Tanzanian border for cheaper fuel, lampoon government’s insensitivity   Outcry has trailed the hike in pŕices of fuel in Kenya, East African biggest economy. The hike has seen the price of petrol shoot to the Sh130.11 mark per litre in Migori town, pushing it to a nine-year high at a time when Kenyans are grappling with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Diesel is retailing at Sh120.26 while kerosene shot to Sh99.07. Motorists in Migori County are now driving to neighbouring Tanzania in droves for cheaper…

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NCDMB picks December date for 2,500 bopd Duport Modular Refinery completion

Tade Salako

  The 2500 barrels per modular refinery being established at Egbokor, Edo State, Southsouth Nigeria, by Duport Midstream Company Limited in partnership with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will be ready for commissioning in the last quarter of 2021. The Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, said this, according to a statement when he visited the project site to assess the progress of work on the fabrication of the tank farms, civil works, pipeline installation and other site preparation works and confirmed that the project had reached 80 percent completion.…

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Why Kenya’s 2022 crude oil Export plan hit the rock

Aoko Benjamin

  Had everything gone according to plan, Kenya would be set to begin its commercial export of crude oil on a large scale next year, after success in export of a consignment in 2019, which was obtained from the pilot phase of the project. Instead, yesterday, the firm announced that it is now shifting attention and over 90 per cent of its resources to West Africa, with Tullow Chief Executive Rahul Dhir saying the company will be channeling resources to projects it considers to be productive in a move to…

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Nigerian Oil blocs’ winners emerge, get 45 days to pay Signature bonus

Efe Wellington

  The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has picked winners for 57 marginal oil blocs with demand for them to pay as much as $1.14 bil  lion cumulative Signature Bonus in 45 days. The agenxy itself said rarlier that it targetted at least $500 million in signatire bonuses from the process. The agency, Platforms Africa gathered, distributed the third letter in the series of correspondences it has been sending to, apparently, the 161 companies selected as winners of interests in the 57 marginal fields on offer in the country’s second…

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