BBOG group meets Buhari tomorrow

BBOG group meets Buhari tomorrow

ABUJA— Members of the BringBackOurGirls group are to meet President Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow as part of their campaign to focus attention on the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from Government Girls' School, Chibok, Borno State in 2014.
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20 persons, 25 cows  die in Kogi road accident

20 persons, 25 cows die in Kogi road accident

LOKOJA—No fewer than 20 persons were killed on Monday in an early morning crash around Irepeni, along Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highway. About 25 cows were also killed in the incident.

‘Deep Offshore is  the future’

‘Deep Offshore is the future’

Sub-sea engineering is an area of engineering that deals with how to solve the problems of getting the oil out from the earth that is under the water. You put a lot of equipment and there is a way the equipment work. The water depth is very deep, about 1,500 meters and normally speaking human beings don’t have access to the equipment on the sea-bed. Sub-sea engineering deals with how we can control these equipment and still get our oil and gas out of the reservoir up to the host facilities.

APC chieftain to PDP: wait for Buhari’s 100 days in office

APC chieftain to PDP: wait for Buhari’s 100 days in office

Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State, Donatus Nwankpa, has faulted the labelling of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s stay in office so far as a month of all motion, no movement and urged the party to wait for his 100 days in office.

Jos Blasts: CMD decries inadequate bed space in Specialist Hospital

Jos Blasts: CMD decries inadequate bed space in Specialist Hospital

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA has confirmed that 44 people lost their lives and 47 others were critically injured in the twin blasts which rocked Jos city Sunday night, just as the Chief Medical Director of Plateau Medical Hospital decried inadequate bed space.

Lalong sacks council chairmen

Lalong sacks council chairmen

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Jos—Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong has dissolved the chairmen of the 17 local government councils of the state as well all members of the executive arm, councilors and political appointees in the councils despite several assurances to the chairmen. The governor directed the chairmen to hand over all government properties in their […]

Jega resumes work as lecturer in BUK

Jega resumes work as lecturer in BUK

Immediate past chairman of the Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega on Monday resumed at the Bayero University Kano (BUK), where he was a lecturer until he got appointed as INEC chairman by former president Goodluck Jonathan in 2010.

Nigerians’ll beg PDP to come back in 2019 – Ojougboh

Nigerians’ll beg PDP to come back in 2019 – Ojougboh

National Vice Chairman, South-South, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, has decried the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying that Nigerians will beg the PDP to come back in 2019.

Why indigenous oil, gas companies  don’t attract equity

Why indigenous oil, gas companies don’t attract equity

“Interestingly, foreign markets want corporate governance. They want to see equity as well. In Canada’s oil and gas industry, the average debt to equity ratio is $1 of debt per equity. In the US, the average is 97 cents of debt per dollar of equity. But in Nigeria, it is slightly above $2 of debt per equity. This makes the banking industry vulnerable to the oil and gas industry.

Police invitation: I won’t succumb to intimidation, says Ekweremadu

Police invitation: I won’t succumb to intimidation, says Ekweremadu

AGAINST the backdrop of invitation extended to him by the Nigeria Police to explain his alleged forgery of Senate Rule,Deputy Senate President,Ike Ekweremadu has said no amount of intimidation from any quarter would deter him from carrying out his legislative functions.

PDP vows to reclaim power from APC in 2019

PDP vows to reclaim power from APC in 2019

By Henry Umoru ABUJA- AGAIN, the national  leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has vowed  to reclaim power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next general elections coming up in 2019. Speaking with Journalists Monday in at a meeting with North-central members of PDP, Chairman of the North-central sub-committee, Hon. Emeka […]

Oil firms risk losing  equities over indebtedness

Oil firms risk losing equities over indebtedness

Oil and gas firms that borrowed huge amount of money at high interest rates from financial institutions in the country would be forced to relinquish some of their stakes to the banks if they hope to continue in business, Vice President, FBN Capital, Ms. Rolake Akinkugbe, has declared. Akinkugbe, in an article in: The Oil and Gas Year, warned that marginal fields’ operators that are yet to commence production on their fields will be the worst affected.

Maintain status quo, Court  orders Arco, NAOC

Maintain status quo, Court orders Arco, NAOC

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has directed parties in the suit filed by an indigenous oil service company, Arco Group Plc against Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited, NAOC, to maintain status quo pending the determination of the applications before it. Justice Lambo Akanbi’s order was sequel to an oral application by the lead counsel to Arco, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, asking the court to prevail on parties from doing anything that would jeopardise the case.