Day: April 18, 2023

43% Completed, Nigeria Gives Update On $2.8bn AKK Gas Pipeline

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Vice President Insists AKK Project Is To Power 3,600MW Plants      The $2.8bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano natural gas pipeline project being constructed by the Nigerian Government through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and its partners, is now 43 per cent completed, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, announced on Monday. He also revealed that the project would help in generating 3.6 gigawatts (3,600 megawatts) of electricity, adding that the AKK pipeline was a major project of the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). READ ALSO: Nigeria Grants…

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Nigeria Grants Asylum To 20,612 Syrians, Congolese Other Nationals In 6 Yrs

ADEOLA YUSUF

Real time statistics of 41 countries whose nationals got asylum from January 2017 to December 2022.     20,612 foreign nationals sought and got asylum in Nigeria from January 2017 to December 2022. According to data obtained from the United Nations Human Rights Council for the period under review, most asylum seekers originated from Cameroun, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and Lebanon. READ ALSO: I won’t Do It Again, Man Selling Indian Hemp For Prisoners Lands In Jail Workers Ground ExxonMobil’s Nigeria Operations, Firm Declares…

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I won’t Do It Again, Man Selling Indian Hemp For Prisoners Lands In Jail

ADEOLA YUSUF

How the 31 year-old bricklayer was caught selling drugs at Ikoyi custodial centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS).   A Lagos Federal High Court, has sentenced a 31 year-old bricklayer, Rasheed Bolaji, to two years imprisonment, for selling Cannabis Sativa, in Ikoyi custodial centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS). Justice Abimbola Awogboro, sentenced the bricklayer to the jail-term, after convicted him of two counts charge trafficking and unlawful dealing in 5. 3 kilograms of India hemp, leveled against him by the anti-narcotic agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement…

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JAMB Extends 2023 Direct Entry Registration

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday extended the closing date for the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration by one week starting from Friday, April 21. In a statement, JAMB’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said that the DE registration exercise commenced on Monday, March 20, and billed to end on Thursday, April 20. “The extension was partly to give all holders of Cambridge A/Level Certificates, who were unable to register for the exercise on account of some issues associated with the verification of their certificates another opportunity to…

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