Day: August 5, 2024

OML 13: NNPCL Surges Nigeria’s Oil Output By 28k bpd, Portfolio To 26 Grades

ADEOLA YUSUF

▪️‘First cargo of Utapate crude oil grade heads for Spain’   The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has announced the introduction of Utapate crude oil blend, a new crude oil grade into the international crude oil market. Platforms Africa reports that this was contained in a statement by the spokesman for the oil giant, Olufemi Soneye. From Oil Mining Lease (OML) 13, fully operated by NEPL, NNPC Ltd’s upstream subsidiary, the Utapate crude oil blend commenced operations in July 2024, as its first cargo headed for Spain. Located offshore…

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Bangladesh PM Flees After 15 Years In Power As Protesters Storm Palace

ADEOLA YUSUF

Cheering protesters stormed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace on Monday after she fled, the culmination of more than a month of deadly anti-government protests. Jubilant-looking crowds waved flags, some dancing on top of a tank in the streets of Dhaka on Monday morning before hundreds broke through the gates of Hasina’s official residence. Bangladesh’s Channel 24 broadcast images of crowds running into the compound, waving to the camera as they celebrated. A source close to Hasina, 76, had earlier told AFP she had left her palace for a “safer…

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Tinubu Postpones FEC Meeting, Summons Security Chiefs To Aso Rock

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting earlier scheduled for Monday afternoon has been rescheduled. Ministers who had arrived for the meeting were seen departing the Council Chambers Presidential Villa venue at about noon. However, only few ministers actually arrived for the meeting as at the time it was rescheduled. It was gathered that the rescheduling of the meeting might not be unconnected with a security meeting that is currently ongoing at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. READ ALSO ‘Wrong, Unreasonable,’ Abati, Punctures Reps Members’ Call For Kyari’s Sack BREAKING: Bobrisky Regains…

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‘Wrong, Unreasonable,’ Abati, Punctures Reps Members’ Call For Kyari’s Sack

Gbenga Adeoti

‘This, not NNPCL CEO, is the problem with the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.’ What the Arise TV breakfast talk show anchor said on live programme Dr. Rueben Abati, a veteran journalist and former Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, dismissed call by a fragment of the House of Representatives to sack the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari. Platforms Africa reports that Abati, the lead anchor in the popular Arise TV breakfast talk show,…

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BREAKING: Bobrisky Regains Freedom After Six Months In Jail

Ganiyu Amodu

Controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has regained freedom from the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, after spending six months in incarceration for abusing the naira by spraying it at parties. Recall that Bobrisky was sentenced to six months imprisonment on April 12, 2024, without the option of fine by Justice Abimbola Awogboro. In a video on X on Monday, Bobrisky, spotted with actress, Eniola Ajao, shared excitement on return. READ ALSO How We Broke 20-Year Jinx To Reach Olympics Q’finals—D’Tigress ‘Under 16? No Admission,’ JAMB Insists On Candidate’s Age…

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How We Broke 20-Year Jinx To Reach Olympics Q’finals—D’Tigress

Abibat Babalola

•Nigeria better than us, says Canada’s Achonwa Head coach and team captain of Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, Rena Wakama, and Amy Okonkwo, have explained how the African champions overcame Canada on Sunday to qualify for their first quarterfinals at the Olympics since their first appearance in Athens in 2004, The PUNCH reports. D’Tigress are tearing up the script in a big way at the Olympics, shooting down Canada 79-70 to become the first African team (women or men) to make it beyond the group phase in the history…

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‘Under 16? No Admission,’ JAMB Insists On Candidate’s Age For Eligibility

Abibat Babalola

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has raised alarm over an upsurge in the number of doctored and upwardly adjusted age declarations on NIN slips being submitted by candidates. The exam body expressed worry that the trend of underage candidates falsifying their age to gain admission into the university has become dangerous, inimical and unnecessary. JAMB has now insisted that only candidates who will be at least sixteen years old at the time of admission will be considered eligible for admittance into the university. A statement by the board’s…

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NYSC Gives HND Graduates Condition For Mobilisation For Service

Abibat Babalola

The National Youth Service Corps has put another hurdle before graduates of polytechnics and monotechnics in order for them to be mobilised for the mandatory one-year service. Yetunde Baderinwa, NYSC Coordinator in Lagos State, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. In the interview on Saturday in Lagos, Baderinwa said: “It has been noticed in recent times that some graduates of polytechnics and mlnotechnics do not observe the mandatory one-year IT before being admitted for HND programme. “The one-year IT is a prerequisite for HND…

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