Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, others should work together to achieve oil market stability — Kachikwu
The Minister of Petroleum, Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Khalid Al-Falih visited Nigeria last week and held talks with Nigeria, to forge a common alliance on the forthcoming OPEC meeting in Vienna. Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu and his Saudi counterpart spoke with journalists, including Mike Eboh on a wide range of issues, including oil market stability.
Okorocha clashes with deputy at burial party
OWERRI—IMO State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and his deputy, Eze Madumere, have clashed again over failure of the governor to recognise Madumere as deputy governor of the state.
Atiku launches N-West campaign in Sokoto, assures of people-friendly govt
THE presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, said yesterday that he would run a people-friendly government, if elected in 2019.
No Nnewi trader died in detention —Association chairman
NNEWI— CHAIRMAN of Agbo-Edo Motor Spare Parts Dealers Association, AMSPDA, Chief Gabriel Chibueze has denied claims that one of the Nnewi traders arrested and detained by the police died in detention.
Emmanuel Macron and the new France
THE outcomes of the French presidential elections were announced on Sunday, May 7, with Emmanuel Macron, the centrist political leader, having 62 per cent of the votes as against ultra-nationalist Marine Le Pen’s 38 percent. It had been a bitterly contested election. So much was at stake – no less than the future of France and of Europe itself. Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right Front National, campaigned under the banner of xenophobic nationalism. She promised to act tough on immigration; to pull France out of the EU, revoke the citizenship of naturalised citizens with known terrorist sympathies. For her, it would be “les français d’abord” – the French first!
EFCC arraigns two oil marketers for alleged $8.4m fraud
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned two oil marketers, Messrs Yusuf Kwande and Osahon Asemota, in an Ikeja Special Offences Court for allegedly stealing 6.4 million metric tonnes of Automated Gas Oil, AGO, worth $8.4million.
