THERE are strong indications that the Federal Government would soon intervene to resolve the personality conflict between the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Maikanti Baru.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, has accused Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Maikanti Baru, of insubordination, and called for the cancellation of the recent appointments in the NNPC.

THE Senate, yesterday, tackled the Executive arm of government over poor implementation of the 2017 budget and the release of about 15 per cent of the N2.177 trillion voted for capital projects.

THE Presidency has once again made it clear that it would not consider the 2014 Confab report, despite calls from some quarters that the recommendations be considered and implemented.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day broadcast elicited strong reactions from across the country, yesterday, with Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, taking strong exceptions to the indictment of Igbo leaders over the escalation of agitation for Biafra.

President Muhammadu Buhari, this morning, acknowledged that calls for the restructuring of Nigeria are “quite proper in a legitimate debate”but noted that the situation “has let in highly irresponsible groups to call for the dismemberment of the country.”

THE Federal Govern-ment, yesterday, disa-greed with the United States of America on the status of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The Senate, after a two-hour closed-door session, yesterday, declared that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable.

The Presidency was, yesterday, mute as verbal warfare broke out between the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Professor Itse Sagay, one of the key aides directing President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption fight.

There are strong indica- tions that the realisation of the Federal Government’s 2017-2020 Economic and Recovery Growth Plan, ERGP, may be scuttled as a result of inadequate and unstable power supply in the country.

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC,  and  former governor of Lagos State, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday broke his silence on the restructuring debate as he warned of the consequences of not engaging a  restructuring  of the political economy of the Nigerian nation.

The Indegeniuos People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking it to vacate the ex-parte order that proscribed and declared it a terrorist organisation.

Sokoto —The apex Igbo  socio-cultural group in Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday  stressed that the country should not be allowed to undergo another civil war.

EFFORTS of the Federal Government to declare the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB a terrorist organisation and proscribe its activities, yesterday, bore fruits. A Federal High Court in Abuja granted an order declaring the activities of IPOB as “acts of terrorism and illegality.”

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, yesterday, said Nigeria’s foreign debt stood at $15.05 billion, while the domestic debt portfolio was put at N14.06 trillion in June this year.