Day: March 19, 2024

Kidnapped Bauchi Traditional Ruler Found Dead

Abibat Babalola

The village head of Riruwai in Lame District of Bauchi Emirate in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Alhaji Garba Badamasi, has been murdered. Salient Times gathered that the village head was earlier kidnapped by gunmen who invaded his domain on Friday, 15th March, 2024. Conquering the clouds on a journey to Ta Xua with the team – Road Trip Vietnam Team – Nếm TV A source who did not want to be named said the gunmen went straight into the palace of the deceased from where they abducted…

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Something Cooking? Shell Nigeria Country Chair Meets Ghana’s Energy Minister

Ganiyu Amodu

Osagie Okunbor, Managing Director, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, received his award of participation from Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Ghana’s Minister of Energy, at the 7th Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja. Platforms Africa reports that the event gave the duo an opportunity to exchange pleasantries and words. READ ALSO JUST IN: Killers Of 16 Soldiers May Be Mercenaries, Says Akpabio Minister Opens Up As N40bn Metering Contract Polarises Power Industry Kyari, NNPCL Delegation Take Investors’ Hunt To Houston “When…

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JUST IN: Killers Of 16 Soldiers May Be Mercenaries, Says Akpabio

Ganiyu Amodu

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday, said those involved in the killing of soldiers in Delta State may be foreigners. Some armed men had on Thursday, March 14, attacked and killed 15 personnel of the Nigerian Army during a peace mission to Okuama Community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Speaking on Tuesday during a debate on two merged motions by Senators Abdulaziz Yar’Adua, APC, Katsina Central, and Edeh Dafinone, APC, Delta Central, Akpabio opined that those who killed the soldiers may be mercenaries. He said,…

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Minister Opens Up As N40bn Metering Contract Polarises Power Industry

ADEOLA YUSUF

He has soiled his hand, De Haryor Global Services Limited not a registered Meter Manufacturing/Assemblers Company,’ group lists eight alleged sins of Adelabu, insists minister should be replaced, deployed   The minister of power, Adebayo Adelabu, has opened up on the N40 billion metering contract alleged racket rocking the industry, saying due diligence was followed in awarding the contract. This came as a power stakeholders group, PowerUp Nigeria, declared that De Haryor Global Services Limited, which got N12.7 billion worth of the contract, “is not a registered Meter Manufacturing/Assemblers Company,…

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Kyari, NNPCL Delegation Take Investors’ Hunt To Houston

Ganiyu Amodu

▪️ Why we are optimistic high-profile talks with energy titans, business allies at CERAWeek will yield results – Kyari   At the commencement of the 2024 CERAWeek Conference in Houston, United States, Mr. Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. and other members of the Nigerian delegation engaged in strategic discussions with business partners and prominent figures in the energy industry. The 2024 edition of the conference is centered around the theme of “Multidimensional Energy Transition: Markets, Climate, Technology, and Geopolitics.” According to…

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BREAKING: Court Denies Nnamdi Kanu Bail

Ganiyu Amodu

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, denied bail to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The court, however, ordered accelerated hearing of the case involved in the embattled IPOB leader who is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony. Kanu, who was brought to the court on Tuesday, has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since his arrest in June 2021. Delivering ruling, Justice Nyako held that the court would only grant an accelerated hearing…

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Platforms Africa, HURIWA Demand Release of Journalist Segun Olatunji

Gbenga Adeoti

‌ “Kidnapped” without even informing his wife or granting him the fair hearing of extending a lawful invitation to any office that he has now being driven to secretly,” full statement Platforms Africa, HURIWA issued on journalist’s alleged abduction by Nigerian Army   Reactions have trailed the alleged abduction of a Nigerian journalist, Segun Olatunji, with rights fora; Platforms Africa and the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), demanding his release and fair hearing. Olatunji, the Editor of FirstNews and a member of Platforms Africa forum was reported to…

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Help, My Husband’s Life In Danger, Wife Speaks On FirstNews Editor’s Abduction

Ganiyu Amodu

▪️ Our editor’s whereabouts still unknown after being “Kidnapped” by Army, FirstNews links incident to story published recently   FirstNews, an online news platform, says there has been no response from security agencies, three days after Segun Olatunji, its editor, was “abducted”. Olatunji, a former Kaduna bureau chief of The PUNCH, was reportedly abducted from his home in Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos, by gunmen on Friday. In a statement issued on Saturday, the management of the media platform linked the incident to a recent story published by…

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