“I don’t think that there has been very much positive response. I think one way of dealing with the issue is for you to go close to the market where it is being sold. Then the crime stops. People are stealing the oil to sell. If you are waiting for them in the market and they can’t sell it. There is nothing for them to do with it,” Ajumogobia said.

“The 13-Point Agenda is clear, a fully mapped out strategy that was created to provide a roadmap for the actualisation of the aspira-tions of the people of Nasarawa State and I can tell you that this is a revolution in the social, economic and political development of Nasarawa State,” he said.

The President, who was represented by his Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia (SAN), said it was the duty of the National Assembly to take into considerations logical positions on the bill.

Nigeria’s excess crude account has dropped from $20 billion (N3.004 trillion) at the beginning of the year to $11.2 billion (N1.646trn) in June. This implies that in the last six months, the various tiers of government in the federation have shared a total of $9bn (N1.323tr) from that account.

WAEC in a statement signed by its Director and Zonal Coordinator, Mr. Patrick Modebe, disclosed that the affected schools were re-inspected before the commencement of the May/June 2009 WASCE but as a result of some unexplained developments, the decision to forward the schools to the state Ministry of Education was put on hold.