Month: August 2024

‘Oil Industry On Resurgence,’ Tinubu Flaunts Nigeria’s 1.61 mbpd Output Mark

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Says surge buoyed by reforms he announced in May 2024 to address gaps in PIA   President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday declared a resurgence in the oil & gas industry, commending the increased crude production to 1.6 million barrels per day. Platforms Africa reports that the president, who said this in a national broadcast, maintained that the resurgence was buoyed by the reforms he announced in May 2024 to address the gaps in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). Fire Breaks Out At NNPC Oil Well Nigeria’s crude oil…

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Conflict Reporting Can’t Be Sheer Content Creation, By Tunde Akanni, PhD

ADEOLA YUSUF

So fluid and hard to define, content creation can be as amusing as may be stupefying… It’s the worst form of mimicry for genuine journalism practice.”     Expectedly, this season of uncertainty unleashed on the nation by #EndBadGovernance campaigners is revealing acutely strange tendencies about the media. Whatever may be the stance of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, global broadcasting now runs ceaselessly on the telephone handset of individuals, courtesy of the internet. Facebook is hardly any less laden as the utmostly manipulable X’s Space. This is the same…

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‘From World Bank, AfDB,’ Nigeria’s Electricity Loans Under Tinubu Hit $1.25Bn

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria has secured at least $1.25 billion in loans from the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to boost electricity supply under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. On December 14, 2023, the World Bank approved the $750 million Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) project in Nigeria. More recently, on July 31, 2024, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved a loan of $500 million to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to help transform the country’s electricity infrastructure and improving access to cleaner energy sources. About…

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NUPRC Begins Probe As Fire Breaks Out At NNPC Oil Well

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) on Saturday said a fire incident has been reported on Akaso 4 Wellhead operated by Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Eighteen Operating Limited. The NUPRC Head of Public Affairs and Corporate Communications, Laide Shonola, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. According to the statement, the incident which has extended along the adjacent riverbank is reported to have occurred on 2 August at about 11:12 p.m. NNPC 18 Operating Limited has confirmed that a rapid response emergency team has been deployed to secure…

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Is House of Reps Gaming NNPCL in Contrived High-octane Script?, By Barrister Musa Eleojo

ADEOLA YUSUF

On the surface, the recent tiff between Aliko Dangote, Founding President/CEO, Dangote Group, and Engr. Farouk Ahmed, the CEO, Nigerian Midstream, Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, would appear to be the trigger that drew in the House of Representatives to open what it calls an investigation into factors working against the petroleum sector. Dangote had alleged that NMDPRA was licensing product importers who bring in substandard, dirty diesel into Nigeria. To put such foggy allegation in the public space, in effect attempting to smear the reputation of one of the…

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Stop Action, Let’s Dialogue, Tinubu Urges Protesters

ADEOLA YUSUF

+ Word-for-word: Full script of the president’s 38-paragraph broadcast President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appealed to the #Endbadgovernance protesters nationwide to stop action and embrace dialogue with the federal government. The president made the appeal on Sunday in a nationwide broadcast on the protest. Lamenting the loss of lives and destruction of property that characterized the protest, the president said an end should be put to further destruction. His words: “I am especially pained by the loss of lives in Borno, Jigawa, Kano, Kaduna and other states, the destruction of…

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Protesters Storm Kano Streets With Russian Flags

ADEOLA YUSUF

In the midst of the ongoing protests across the country, young people in Kano State have taken to the streets, waving Russian flags and calling for intervention from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nigerians first began protesting on Thursday, August 1, demanding better governance and an end to severe issues such as food inflation, general inflation, and the high cost of living. The sight of Russian flags underscores the deep frustration with the Nigerian government’s handling of the economic crisis, which has exacerbated hunger and hardship across the country, SaharaReporters reported.…

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#EndBadGovernance Protests: Tinubu To Address Nigerians Sunday

ADEOLA YUSUF

President Bola Tinubu has succumbed to growing calls for him to address the nation amid widespread #EndBadGovernance protests that entered its third day on Saturday. The ex-Lagos governor who has been at the centre of rallies against economic hardship and high living cost that have reverberated across Nigeria’s 36 states and the nation’s capital Abuja will address over 200 million citizens on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at 7:00 am, his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement. “Television, radio, and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to plug into the…

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Manless and happy, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

Without a man, you could spend a week in the same clothes without a shower if you want. You can wear your comfortable black bra for two weeks. Who will know when there is no boyfriend ‘doing general checking?   We all experience it at one point or the other, that dry season when a woman is simply totally ‘manless’. The men can’t find you or you can’t find them. What you choose to do with this break now depends on you but I can tell you for free that…

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We’ll Intervene If Protest Gets Out Of Hands, Military Warns

ADEOLA YUSUF

Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Christopher Musa, on Friday, warned that the military will intervene if violence persists in the ongoing nationwide #EndbadGovernance protests. Musa stated this while reacting to the vandalisation and looting of properties that characterised the protest in many parts of the country on Thursday. In Kano, protesters looted the newly built Nigeria Communications Commission Industrial Park and set parts of it ablaze. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre was scheduled for commissioning next week. The CDS, while briefing newsmen on Friday, urged protesters to recognise…

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