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Stakeholders in the maritime sector have urged the Federal Government to give fear hearing to the suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) in the N165.3 billion non-remittance dispute. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi had petitioned the presidency about an estimated shortfall in remittances by NPA between 2016 and 2020. However, Bala Usman in her response said the total of N76.384 billion (2017 and 2018) and another N82.687 billion for the period 2019 and 2020 were remitted to the government in line with the template issued by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC).x Few days after her suspension,…

The Federal Government has expressed optimism about improved earnings from its gas monetisation scheme, following the signing of the Pre-Front End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) contract by the licensee to commence the development of 176 million cubic feet per day Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) floating plant. The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) had issued Licence to Establish (LTE), the first floating Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production plant to UTM Offshore Limited, an indigenous oil and gas company, earlier this year. UTM is to install a 1.2mn t/yr FLNG unit at Yoho field under a licence to be established by the DPR.…

• Want Buhari to address Nigerians, organise confab on insecurity • Buhari unveils new measures for Southeast, South-South security, mum on threats in North• Afenifere leader calls for president’s resignation • PDP: Nigeria in serious trouble, we must pray now After individual attempts to address menace of open grazing in Southern states, the Forum of Southern Governors in one voice, yesterday, announced a ban on open grazing in all the 17 Southern states. They recommended that the Federal Government should support willing states to develop alternative and modern livestock management systems. They also called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to as…

…Officer’s wife also murdered …Patrol vehicles burnt, rifles carted away …Wike cries: We won’t succumb to secessionist agenda …34 deaths in 14 days …Adeboye’s wife: Guns cannot help us In the last 24 hours, no fewer than 12 police men lost their lives to the ongoing attacks on security personnel and formations in the South-East and South-South regions. The separate incidents, which had the imprints of previous attacks, saw gun[1]men attacking the personnel at their duty posts in the early hours of the day. In Akwa Ibom, gunmen attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters, located in Odoro Ikpe village, Ini Local…

TODAY in the second largest city of Akwa Ibom State, Eket, a commendation service for 42-year old Oluwadaminare Temitope Adeboye, a regional pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, who died in his sleep last Tuesday evening after ministering in his church, will be held. The said Dare, till his death that night was the “miracle child” and the second biological son of the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye. He was his look alike. According to a release by the family, the deceased body which is currently lying cold in…

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has fingered his Kaduna state counterpart, Nasir el-Rufai as one of the real enemies of Nigeria and the very few persons misleading President Muhammadu Buhari. He maintained that the Kaduna state Governor was a sycophant, ethnic champion and religious bigot who hated anyone who did not share the same faith with him. The Benue state Governor who in a statement weekend in Makurdi by his Chief Press Secretary, CPS, Terver Akase, was a reaction to a statement credited to the Kaduna state Governor who alleged that Governor Ortom was attacking the federal government over…

… Pray for Church vandals, Enugu Bishop charges Diocesans By Dennis Agbo Leader of Catholic Adoration ministry in Enugu, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka has narrated what transpired when he was allegedly detained for 24 hours by the Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev CVC Onaga. Mbaka stated that the Bishop did not kidnap him as speculated, but that the meeting he thought was a private one turned out to be a predetermined meeting with many consultants in attendance. He also disclosed that he went for the meeting with the Bishop so that his adherents would not become violent as it…

• As gale of insecurity spread across states • Parents withdraw wards from schools in Abuja over kidnap scare • Schools remain safe, police insist • Bandits use walkie-talkie, no more GSM, says NASDRA boss • Kidnappers abduct varsity students in Abia, dozens in Niger • Gunmen attack police stations in Ebonyi, Anambra, kill three cops• Reps move to investigate N2b safe school intervention project • Ondo warns monarchs against harbouring strangers It’S an unending gale of insecurity unleashed across the country daily while security agencies appear to be stretched beyond limits. While some locations are under terror siege, with…

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) says it registered 28 new COVID-19 infections in five states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday. This brings the country’s COVID-19 total cases to 165,301 since tracking of the pandemic began on Feb. 27, 2020. The NCDC made the disclosure on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. It said that 10 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, seven in Rivers, six in Akwa Ibom, two in Delta, two in the FCT and one in Kaduna State. “Today’s report includes data from Akwa Ibom recorded over the last…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed June 19, 2021, for the conduct of the by-election to fill the vacant seat for Sabon Gari State Constituency of Kaduna State House of Assembly. The seat, initially occupied by former Speaker Aminu Abdullahi Shagali, was declared vacant in April after the house accused the lawmaker of absconding from all Assembly activities for more than a year without any reason. According to the legislators, the ex-speaker’s absence without just cause from one-third of the meetings of the Assembly for one year was in contravention of Section 109 (1)[f] and (2) of the…