PROF. Abdullahi Shehu, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation, says the Federal Government is exploring ways to resuscitate one of Nigeria’s largest assets, the Ajaokuta Steel Company, with potential Russian investors. Shehu made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Moscow, stating that Russia had always been very good technical partners of Nigeria. Shehu said that resuscitating Ajaokuta steel company was one of the agendas of discussion between Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, and Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, when they met during the First Africa-Russia Summit in Sochi, Russia, in 2019. He said…
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THe Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mr Gabriel Aduda, on Monday, said deregulation of the downstream sector would increase transparency in downstream sector of the petroleum industry. He said full deregulation would also create healthy competition among investors. Aduda was represented at the 16th Oil Trading and Logistics Expo in Lagos with the theme: “Regulating Downstream Energy Transition in Dynamic times,” by Mr Augustine Okwudiafor, the Deputy Director, Downstream Department, Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources. He noted that deregulation would give business guaranty to investors at the stage of conceptualisation. According to him, deregulation will significantly reduce, if not…
THE International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with the Nigerian Mission in Tripoli has successfully evacuated 137 stranded Nigerians, who were irregular migrants, from Libya. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Chargé D’affaires en titre, of the Nigerian Mission to Libya, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, in Abuja. Musa said that the 137 returnees departed Misrata, Libya on October 24 at 2.30pm aboard a chartered flight No. UZ189 and were expected to arrive the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 5pm (Nigerian Time). According to him, the returnees include 76 male…
INDIAN-BORN Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to leave millions of people poorer. One of the wealthiest politicians in Westminster, Sunak will become the country’s first leader of colour – and the country’s third prime minister in less than two months. He replaces Liz Truss, who only lasted 44 days before she resigned, needing to restore stability to a country reeling from years of political and economic turmoil, and seeking to lead a party…
THE Confluence Hotel in Ganaja, Lokoja, used to be my favourite spot whenever I visited Kogi State. Its main attraction to me was sitting down to watch the Rivers Niger and Benue warmly embrace in an eternal wedlock as their waters flow down south to the Niger Delta before emptying themselves into the Atlantic Ocean. Sitting there, I never forget that one of the tributaries of these great rivers, with their confluence in Ganaja, is the Forcados River on whose banks I was born. I used to dash from Ganaja to eateries in the city centre; it took only…
ABOUT seven workers of the Dangote Cement Factory at Obajana, Kogi State have reportedly been shot and others injured, when over 500 allegedly armed members of the state’s security outfit, the Vigilantes, stormed the cement plant Wednesday morning. The Vigilantes were said to have been directed by the state’s authorities to shut down the factory shortly after an order by the State House of Assembly do so. Among top government officials said to have led the vigilantes were the state Director-General of Lands; Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Security, Commodore Jerry Omodara (rtd), Chairman…
AN Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 40-year-old man, Francis Amanze, at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, having been accused of raping two minors aged nine and 10 years. The magistrate, B. O. Osunsanmi, refused to take Mr Amanze’s plea and ordered his remand until 31 October, to await advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution. Amanze, a data analyst, resides at Iba Housing Estate, Lagos. The prosecutor, Raji Akeem, had earlier told the court that Mr Amanze committed the offence in July at his residence during the summer coaching classes. Mr Amanze’s wife, who runs…
By Amos Aar THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sought a symbiotic working relationship with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Benue State Council, to ensure that activities of the Commission are positively projected especially as the 2023 general elections draw nearer. Administrative Secretary of the Commission in Benue State, Mr Shehu Adulwahab, made the solicitation Tuesday when he led other state officials to pay a courtesy call on the NUJ State Chairman, Comrade Vincent Nyinongu, at the Council Secretariat in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. Mr Abdulwahab said the visit became necessary because NUJ has a mandate to correct…
THE Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Tuesday called on governors owing teachers salary arrears to use their remaining months in office to pay off the backlog. The Secretary-General of the union, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, raised the concern in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja ahead of the World Teachers’ Day. The World Teachers Day with the theme: “Teachers at the Heart of Education Recovery’ is celebrated on October 5, every year to appreciate teachers for their great deeds. Ike-Ene said that a good number of state governors owe primary school teachers and secondary schools…
By Amos Aar FAMOUS Musician, Mr Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba or 2Face, last Thursday, September 29, 2022 expressed readiness to come to the aid of his alma mater, Mount Saint Gabriel (MSG) Secondary School, Makurdi, anytime he is called upon for assistance. 2Baba also admonished students of MSG to work hard to improve on their talents in order to succeed in their chosen careers. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8R1FxvKWhk[/embedyt] A teacher at the school, Mr Nicodemus Adasu, who briefed National Record on 2Baba’s visit to the school, said the musician was there on invitation of the school’s authority to grace the feast…