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Nigeria has lost the United States of America, USA, as a significant crude export market,  Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources has revealed. Until early 2000s, US was Nigeria’s top crude importer, buying around 700,000 b/d of the commodity from Africa’s biggest producer and climbed as high as 1.31 million b/d in February 2006, according to the US Energy Information Administration. This volume has, however, been dropping since then, reaching zero import level by June 2015 following a surge in production of shale oil. “That’s gone,” Kachikwu said at CERAWeek in Houston, USA. CERAWeek conference continues outreach…

“God is seriously angry with the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians and visitors by Boko Haram sect, Fulani herdsmen and other killers in the country,” a clergyman in Anambra State stated, appealing to Nigerians to intercede for God not to vent anger on the land. Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh, General Overseer of Mount Zion Faith Global Liberation Ministries Inc (aka By Fire By Fire), Nnewi in Anambra State, stated this at a special church service to pray down Heavens for God to intervene in the current enormous bloodshed experienced across Nigeria on a daily basis. Udeh noted that out of fear…

A Nigerian man living in Italy since the 1970s has been elected the country’s first black Senator. He is Toni Iwobi born in Gusau in Northern Nigeria. He is the chief immigration spokesman for the far-right League party in Italy, a party which has been accused of stirring up xenophobia. The 62-year-old travelled to Italy on a student visa 40 years ago. He married an Italian and started his own Information Technology, IT, company in Italy. Following the election, Iwobi said on Facebook on Tuesday, March 6: “It is with great excitement that I can tell you I have been…

Not less than to 30 persons in Majia town, Taura local government area of Jigawa State have been reportedly killed by a strange disease, leaving dozens hospitalised. Investigation revealed that the patients suddenly developed severe headache and body pains before losing consciousness. Relatives of the victims were seen mourning their dead during a visit to Majia town, which is about 90 kilometres from Dutse, the state capital, Monday, while those whose family members have been affected are living in fear. One of the parents, who lost four children, Musa Kallamu, to the strange illness, said: “Within 24 hours, I lost…

Leaders of Igbo Patriots, a pro-Biafra group on Tuesday stormed the Anambra State House Assembly Complex, Awka with a call on the lawmakers to enact anti-grazing bill to stem further clashes between herdsmen and host communities in the state. In a letter entitled: “Fervent Request to Enact Anti- Grazing and Anti-Cattle Colony in Anambra State” submitted by Rita Maduagwu to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, copy which was made available to journalists, stated that the request was for the collective interest of Ndigbo. The Coordinator of the Igbo group, Obumneke Ejimkeonye Okafor and six others who issued…

Governor Samuel Ortom shed tears in Omusu village, Okpokwu local government area of Benue state, where no fewer than 26 persons were mowed by suspected herdsmen. During the attack, several persons were injured and many missing. Several houses, huts and food barns were also set ablaze by the marauding herdsmen while the entire community has been deserted. A source in the area stated that the well-armed herdsmen stormed the village at about 4 p.m. shooting sporadically at anything on sight and burning down houses in the community. “It was a bloody evening in Okpokwu, armed herdsmen stormed Omusu village and…

Judges in the country have been charged to expedite hearing of cases pending before their courts, maintaining that speedy resolution of disputes would assure investors and other major players in the oil and gas industry that their investments are safe. Onnoghen spoke Tuesday at the opening ceremony of a workshop on Nigerian Local Content Development and Monitoring (Law & Policy) for Justices and Judges, organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Management Board in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute, NJI. The CJN noted that recent innovations in the oil and gas sector introduced new legal regimes, making it necessary…

The House of Representatives, Tuesday, moved to probe issuance of voters’ cards to under-aged voters by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Consequently, the House resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to probe deeply into the allegation levelled against the apex electoral body. The development was sequel to a motion promoted by Johnbull Shekerau, PDP, Plateau State. But immediately after the debate, Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, PDP, Abia moved for amendment of Shekarau’s prayer from mandating the Committee on Electoral and Political Parties to probe the matter to rather set up an independent committee. His proposed amendment to set up an…

The Senate, Tuesday, raised the alarm that Nigeria as a country loses about 2,300 under-five-year old and 145 women of child bearing age every day. As part of moves to end the problem, the Senate mandated its Committees on Women Affairs and Health to work with the Federal Ministries of Women Affairs and Health to find ways of curbing maternal, new born and infant mortality in the country and report back to it. In another development, the Senate has called for the establishment of a special court to enforce the rights of children and ensure that those who expose children…

Memebers of the House of Representatives Committee United States/ Nigeria Parliamentary Relations Tuesday, appealed to the United States to assist Nigeria in the repatriation of stolen funds stashed in foreign countries by corrupt public officials. Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, committee Chairman made the appeal on behalf of his colleagues when he played host to a delegation of military officers of the US Air War College. Agbonayinma in soliciting the repatriation of all looted funds stashed in overseas countries informed the military delegation that as accomplished officers who will in no distant future be involved in policy formation in the United States, they…