Fuel crisis: DPR reads riot act to oil marketers
Obviously in response to the lingering fuel crisis and the loud complaints by suffering consumers, the management of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, may have decided that enough was enough. And to demonstrate its feeling in this regard, it has warned all petroleum products marketers that it would not hesitate to commensurately sanction those who indulge in varying despicable acts in the procurement and distribution of petroleum products.
I have no problem with Uduaghan —Okowa
DELTA State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, said that he had no axe to grind with his predecessor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan.
Imperative of revamping Nigeria’s solid minerals
BUJA- The Solid Minerals sector in Nigeria is seen as one with huge potential in all ramifications, with President Muhammadu Buhari reiterating on the need to diversify the economy and revenue sources.
Reps tasks Discos to go debtor govt agencies
THE House of Representatives has tasked electricity distribution companies, Discos, to intensify efforts to collect debts being owed by government agencies and parastatals, instead of complaining about their inability to do so.
Crisis rocks Edo APC, LG Chairman suspended
THE crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, has taken a new twist as the state Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Mr. Saturday Uwuleikhue and some members of the party in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the state, have suspended the party’s chairman in the council, Mr. Matthew Ehigie, for alleged anti-party activities.
Ministerial committee recommends scrapping of DG
There are strong indications that the Ministry of Youth and Sports has concluded plans to scrap the office of the Director General of the ministry.
Source at the ministry told Sports Vanguard that the committee set up by the Permanent Secretary, Christian Ohaa to look into how to harmonise the operations of the ministry and those of the Sports Commission recommended that other directors be retained except the office of the Director General, currently occupied by Alhassan Yakmut.
