The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said its Group Managing Director, Mr. Maikanti Baru, has been awarded the Forbes Best of Africa Oil and Gas Man of the Year 2017 prize.

OPEC will debate this week whether to cap oil output from Nigeria and Libya, which have so far been excluded from supply curbs due to falling production amid unrest, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

Vietnam said Wednesday it would sell a majority stake in the country’s largest state-owned brewer next month but limit foreign ownership to 49 percent, as the cash-strapped government seeks to pay off public debt.

Asian traders stayed cautious Wednesday despite fresh records on Wall Street as Donald Trump’s tax-cut plans moved a step closer, while the pound extended gains on reports of a breakthrough in Brexit talks.

“It has been suicide and suicide everywhere. No succour. It seems Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit, PICA,    and co are praying for all of us to die of subtle murder and suicide in order not to pay our pensions. Only personal intervention by President Muhammadu Buhari, can stop our sufferings and save those of us still alive from joining our departed colleagues untimely.”