The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, said it expects to invest about $20 billion in its operations in 2016.

At the opening of a 2-day retreat for our 36 incoming ministers last Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari made the point again that his administration would run a lean government at all levels, to avoid wastage of public funds. The president therefore charged the participants to key into the change agenda of government, as they constitute the main vehicle that would administer the change to Nigerians adding that the administration would be assessed based on the number of Nigerians it is able to lift out of poverty. The President could not have put it better.

Indiscriminate shutting down of filling stations across the country by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) got a knock from petroleum products consumers under the aegis of Petroleum Consumers Association, when they staged a protest in Ibadan, yesterday, over the sealing of many filling stations in the city, leaving them at the mercy of black marketers at a time scarcity of products is biting hard.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, after mud detached from a hill at Isheri Magodo area of Ojodu Berger, Lagos, landed on two buildings, caving them inside the earth.

Nigeria’s Under-20 women team, the Falconnets face a tough test in their intention to qualify for FIFA Women World Cup in Papua New Guinea as they square up against their South African opponets this afternoon at the Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa.