Month: May 2024

Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria’s Football Star, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘When, where he’ll be buried,’ Family announces final journey for patriot who died in a car crash   Former Nigerian footballer lbrahim Babangida, a member of the victorious 1993 FIFA U-17 World Cup team, tragically passed away in a car accident on Thursday. The incident also left his brother and ex-Super Eagles winger, Tijani Babangida, his wife, son, and maid hospitalized. According to PUNCH, Emmanuel Babayaro, the General Secretary of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria and an Atlanta 1996 Olympic gold medalist, broke the news of Ibrahim’s death. He…

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Tijani Babangida, Wife In Road Crash, Brother Dies, Couple Hospitalised

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Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games gold medallist and President of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria, Tijani Babangida, was on Thursday involved in a car accident that claimed the life of his younger brother Ibrahim Babangida. Ibrahim, who represented Nigeria at the 1993 U17 World Cup, sadly died from wounds sustained from the crash. READ ALSO Senate Hints At Failed Deadlines On PH Refinery, Expects 2024 Delivery Why Bonga Is Such A Success – SNEPCo MD Oba Sikiru Adetona, Orisa-Ijebu At 90 |TOLA ADENIYI The couple that was said to he…

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Senate Hints At Failed Deadlines On PH Refinery, Expects 2024 Delivery

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After several failed deadlines by the handlers of Port Harcourt Refineries, the Nigerian Senate in Far away Houston, Texas, United States of America, said the two refineries in Port Harcourt and Warri currently under rehabilitation would become operational this year. Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Ifeanyi Ubah, gave the assurance at the ongoing 2024 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas. The senator who was not specific on the timeline for their operations, however, said plans are already being implemented to achieve the target, adding that the Kaduna Refinery…

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Why Bonga Is Such A Success – SNEPCo MD

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Bonga, Nigeria’s first deep-water development has been an outstanding producer due to effective leadership, cutting-edge technology, continuous improvement, integrated delivery and collaboration with partners and stakeholders, Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Company Limited (SNEPCo), Elohor Aiboni. said on Thursday at the 2024 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas in US. Since coming on stream in November 2005, Bonga has maintained a track record of production that saw it achieve one-billion-barrel export on February 13, last year. Aiboni reflected on the success factors that enabled the milestone in a presentation…

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Oba Sikiru Adetona, Orisa-Ijebu At 90 |TOLA ADENIYI

ADEOLA YUSUF

Alayeluwa Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Ogbagba Agbotewole ll, the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland is not an ordinary man. He is not an ordinary mortal. And he has refused, like Prince of Aragon in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, to ‘choose what many men desire and be ranked with barbarous multitudes!’ Right from that blessed day on April 2, 1960, the six-footer 26-year old newly-crowned Oba made it clear in non-verbal communication, to the kingmakers, all of them his father’s age, that he would like to be ruled by his…

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NCDMB Co-Chair, Ekpo, Meets ES, Pledges Support For Local Content Programmes

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The Co-Chair of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo on Thursday in Abuja received in audience the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe. The meeting provided an opportunity for the Executive Secretary and the Board’s top management to brief the Minister on the agency’s mandate, activities and initiatives. The presentation dwelt extensively on the Board’s third-party investments, over 60% of which are gas based. The NCDMB team informed the minister that…

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N2.7bn Fraud: Court Imposes Travel Ban On Sirika, Daughter

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The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, barred the immediate-past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, his daughter, Fatimah, and son-in-law, Jalal Hamma, from travelling outside the country. Justice Sylvanus Orji ruled that they must not leave the country pending the conclusion of their N2.7bn fraud trial. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday on six counts, bordering on N2.7bn fraud. They were arraigned alongside Al-Buraq Investment Ltd. The anti-graft agency alleged that Sirika abused his office by awarding a consultancy N1.3bn contract for the Nigerian Air…

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Why We Appointed Gas Minister As NCDMB Governing Council Co-Chair – Tinubu

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given reasons he appointed the minister of state for petroleum resources (gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, as co-chairman, Co-Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). Platforms Africa reports that before Ekpo’s appointment, his counterpart at the oil minister, Heineken Lokpobiri, has been the sole chairman of the council. Confirming Ekpo’s appointment, the President said through a statement issued by his aide that the appointment was “in line with his avowed commitment to establish a more efficient, targeted, and consistent approval…

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Metering: EKEDC Issues 2,000 Minimum Stock Mandate Order To MAP Vendors

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. ‘Reopening Metering portal, 4G-enabled meters for all.’ Full details of templates the utility firm released to customers on how prepaid meter backlog will be cleared   Ahead of the plan to re-launch its prepaid meter portal within the Meter Assets Providers (MAP) scheme, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has implemented a new prerequisite stipulating that MAP vendors must have a minimum stock of 2,000 smart prepaid meters on hand before being authorized to sell and install meters for new customers. Mrs Rekhiat Momoh, Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of…

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Fubara Storms River Assembly, Hours After Factional Speaker Emerges

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A few hours after the emergence of another factional speaker in the Rivers State House of Assembly, the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, yesterday visited the assembly quarters amid a threat of impeachment from the 27 lawmakers loyal to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. Daily Trust reports that a four-member group of lawmakers loyal to the governor on Wednesday elected one of them, Victor Oko-Jumbo (Bonny State Constituency), as Speaker. He was elected 24 hours after Tony Okocha, Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers,…

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