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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, for repealing the law that allowed former governors and their deputies to collect pensions. He admonished other state governors to emulate Otti to reduce the cost of governance. The former President spoke during a courtesy visit to Otti at the Governor’s country home in Nvosi, Isialangwa South Local Government Area. He congratulated the Governor for ending the pension to former governors and former deputy governors which he described as daylight robbery. “The pension scheme for former governor here is atrocious, it’s like daylight robbery because it allows them to…
Many persons have been feared killed in Ugbobi community of the Apa Local Government Area of Benue State, following a coordinated attack on the community by suspected herdsmen. The attack, it was gathered, started on Wednesday and did not stop till the early hours of Thursday. A community leader, Eric Amodu, told Newsday that the threat of the attack on the community has been rife for over a week before the violent attack started last night. He said, “We have been living in fear and apprehension from possible attack by suspected herdsmen given their influx to the community and its…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, has reiterated its commitment towards utilising Nigeria’s abundant gas resources to trigger Nigeria’s industrialisation and economic development. NNPC Ltd’s Executive Vice President, Upstream, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan disclosed this during a panel session at the ongoing 2024 CERAWeek conference in Houston, the United States. Eyesan, whose session addressed the theme, ‘What are the Choices for Upstream Strategies?’, said Nigeria is a predominantly gas-rich country with over 200TCF of gas that can be leveraged for the country’s industrialisation and economic development. She noted that NNPC Ltd’s plans to deepen gas utilisation domestically for industrialisation and ensure…
By Chief (Engr.) Nkpubre Nkpubre I was the Chairman of Oron Techcom on Ibom Deep Sea Port, an advisory Committee to Oron Nation on the Deep Sea Port, when Oron Nation was struggling with the Government of Udom Emmanuel in Akwa Ibom State, against the relocation of Ibom Deep Sea Port, from Ibaka Bay, with established non-dredged draft of about 11meters to a previously rejected location to be built as a Dugout Port. Following a news item on the readiness of the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, to kick-start the implementation of Ibom Deep Sea Port,…
Zenith Bank has named Adaora Umeoji as its first female Group Managing Director/Chief Executive. Her appointment, subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria, takes effect from June 1, 2024, according to the bank. “She takes over from Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, whose five-year term expires on May 31, 2024, after a very successful tenure. Dame (Dr.) Adaora Umeoji is the first female GMD/CEO since the inception of the bank, and her appointment is consistent with the bank’s executive transition tradition, succession plan, and strategy of grooming leaders from within,” Zenith Bank said in a Tuesday statement. Before her…
Five days after the tragic murder of Nigerian Army personnel in Delta State, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, says the culprits may be mercenaries, rather than people from the Niger Delta region. Seventeen military personnel were murdered in Okuama, a community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State last week. Days after the incident, Akpabio, who presided over a plenary session on Tuesday in Abuja, stated those responsible may be mercenaries. He said this during a debate on two merged motions by senators Abdulaziz Yar’Adua and Edeh Dafinone. Dafinone who represents Delta Central, had raised a motion calling…
Counsel to the lawmakers, Ibrahim Alli, said his clients alleged that the embattled speaker in connection with the police, DSS, and NSCDC, has embarked on an attempt to arrest and prosecute them on grounds that 17 members of the State Assembly had sat on February 22, 2024, for a plenary session, and for breaking into the Zamfara State House of Assembly. The eight suspended members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly have instituted a suit at the Federal High Court in Gusau, challenging the breach of their constitutional rights to liberty, dignity of human person, fair hearing, and taking…