Niger Delta Oil piracy and the worm in the Kolanut
SOME Ijaw / Urhobo / Itsekiri adages runs thus, “the worm that eats the kola-nut is inside the kola-nut” and “how can a man be circumspect and careful with a witch in his own house” and “it is the rat in the house that invites the ones outside into the house”. It is clear without a tincture of doubt that the petroleum industry is filled with all kinds of players and the oil pirates are from there and beyond. It is now clearly obvious, that pipeline vandalism, crude oil theft, and illegal oil bunkering and other horrendously fraudulent acts in the oil industry are carried out by Nigerians and their recruited surrogates in the NNPC, some of its subsidiaries and oil multinational companies etc.
FG inaugurates National Honours Award C’ttee
Federal Government has inaugurated the newly-reconstituted committee on National Honours Award.
This budget delay is harmful
The 2016 budget has recorded a number of firsts in the history of Nigeria. It is the most controversial, the first in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Change Agenda, th first to be declared missing and the first to be highly padded. It is also the nation’s highest in norminal terms since independence and longest in the passage process.
EFCC clears CCT Chairman, Umar of N10m bribery
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has cleared the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Justice Dandali Umar, of any culpability in the N10 million bribery allegation leveled against him.
PDP zoning: Members threaten parallel convention
ABUJA — The zoning of the chairmanship position in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has sharply divided members of the party, with some leading stakeholders vowing to hold a parallel convention should the chairmanship position be zoned to the North-East.
More power outage coming as Eko, Ikeja DISCOs receive less megawatts
INDICATION emerged yesterday that the erratic electricity supply in Lagos might worsen following alarm by both Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Eko DISCO and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, Ikeja DISCO, over continuous drop in megawatts allotted them by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN.
