Day: November 19, 2024

NLNG Spokesman, Yemi Adeyemi, Bags PhD

Rofeequr Adeola--Yusuf

‘Resilience, Commitment,’ How Adeyemi bagged highest academic degree 20 years after his Masters degree + tributes friends penned for the ‘tear-rubber’ scholar   Head, Transformation Change Management and Communications at the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), Yemi Adeyemi, has bagged Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in communication. Platforms Africa reports that Adeyemi bagged the highest academic degree at the University of Port Harcourt, 20 years after his second degree (MA Communication and Language Arts programme) at the University of Ibadan. His colleague, Omoniyi Ibietan, who confirmed the news on hos…

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‘Dangote Sells Fuel From Crude Oil He Bought In Naira to Foreign Markets In Dollar’

Aliyu Aliyu

Investigation reveals that ɓusinessman has signed a contract with Vitoil for 5 cargoes of 38,000 metric tonnes per cargo. One of them is the CL Jane Austen tracked by bloomberg   The Dangote Refinery has allegedly altered the Nigerian government’s petrol supply plan as it began the sale of fuel in dollars to the foreign market. A report by Bloomberg, which gives this hint, says a vessel (tanker/cargo) already hauled the product from the refinery to waters off Togo. The crude oil from which the product was refined was sold…

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Flavours of Onicha-Olona: Oge Kimono Rallying Anioma Youths to Village Square

Michael Nduka

Oge, one of Nigeria’s fastest rising reggae artists, is the daughter of the late Oseloke Augustine Onwubuya popularly called Ras Kimono   The apple does not fall from the tree, it is said. This certainly rings true in the case of Oge Kimono. Oge one of Nigeria’s fastest rising reggae artists is the daughter of Oseloke Augustine Onwubuya. Onwubuya, an indigene of Onicha-Olona in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, who passed on in 2018, was known around the world as Ras Kimono. He is regarded as one…

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NPA Boss Seeks Int’l Highway, Rail Routes’ Completion

Ganiyu Amodu

‘How to Ensure Service Provision to Landlocked Countries,’ all that Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho said at 44th annual council and 19th roundtable of Directors General of the PMAWCA holding in Conakry-Guinea.   The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr. Abubakar Dantsoho has advocated for among other measures, the sustained pursuit and completion of international highway, rail routes cutting across Hinterland and Coastal, such as the Niger, Lagos, Tema and Abidjan to ensure service provision to the landlocked states efficiently and at reduced cost. He stated this yesterday in…

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Tinubu Seeks Approval For Fresh N1.77trn Loan

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu has asked the National Assembly to approve fresh N1.767trn external borrowing plan in support of the 2024 Budget. The president conveyed his request in a letter written to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas. The presiding officers read the letter during plenary, on Tuesday. The president said if approved, the loan would be used to partly finance the N9.7trn deficit in the 2024 budget. READ ALSO: DSS Arrests, Detains Ogun PDP Governorship Candidate, Adebutu Oil, Gas Association’s Ex-Chairman Jailed NCC…

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DSS Arrests, Detains Ogun PDP Governorship Candidate, Adebutu

Abibat Babalola

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 governorship election in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, has reportedly been arrested by officials of the Department of State Services (DSS). The PDP Publicity Secretary in Ogun State, Kayode Adebayo, confirmed the arrest and detention of Adebutu in a statement he released in Abeokuta on Monday. According to him, Adebutu was reportedly invited for questioning allegedly in connection with disturbance during the local government elections held last Saturday, November 16, 2024. “This is to inform the members of our great…

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Oil, Gas Association’s Ex-Chairman Jailed

Abibat Babalola

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud. The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43, 502,000.00 Count one reads: “Fatuyi Yemi Philips and…

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Local Govt Chairman Appoints Special Assistants On Yam, Pepper, Egg

Abibat Babalola

The Executive Chairman of Igbo Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, Hon. Dr. Eric Ogbonna Odo, has reportedly appointed two Senior Special Assistants on garden egg, pepper, and yam. Local newspapers, which reported this quoted appointment letters issued by Odo to the aides. In the letter making the rounds on social media, Odo appointed Ezeugwu Frederick Ogbonna, as an SSA on Yam and Pepper. He also reportedly appointed Nwodo Everestus Ugonna as SSA on Garden Egg and Pepper. READ ALSO: Unforeseen Risks, Challenges We Faced On Port Harcourt Refinery…

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Unforeseen Risks, Challenges We Faced On Port Harcourt Refinery – NNPCL

Aliyu Aliyu

After missing another deadline in September, and about a year since it announced mechanical completion, NNPC says PH refinery to be completed, delivered “shortly.”   The Nigerian National Petroleum Commission (NNPC), barely two months after missing its September completion deadline, has provided reasons for the delay in delivering the much-anticipated Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC). Platforms Africa reports that The Punch quoted the NNPC Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, to have said this in an interview with its correspondent on Monday. Soneye attributed the delay to unforeseen risks and…

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Firm Offers Citizens Four-Year Holiday Away From US To Avoid Trump

Abibat Babalola

Those who find it difficult to contend with another era of Donald Trump as President of the United States (POTUS) and are looking for a way of escape, now have a chance to do so, by not only leaving the country, but engaging in more engaging and exciting pastimes. Villa Vie Residences, a Florida-based cruise company, is reportedly offering Americans an unconventional way to “escape” from Donald Trump’s second term as United States President, by unveiling its Tour La Vie programme, allowing passengers to embark on a global adventure spanning…

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