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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Tuesday, stated that rehabilitation of the country’s refineries would commence in the second quarter of 2018. Speaking at the African Refiners Association’s conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Mr. Anibor Kragha, Chief Operating Officer of Refineries and Petrochemicals in the NNPC, said the corporation was in the final stages of talks with a consortium, including top traders, energy majors and oil services companies, to revamp the refineries in an effort to reduce the country’s reliance on imported fuel. Kragha said: “We believe that by the second quarter of this year we will start getting…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has directed candidates who have taken the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, to visit the board’s website for their results. Fabian Benjamin, head of media, JAMB, gave the directive at a news conference in Bwari, Abuja, Tuesday. Benjamin said the results had been scrutinised and released on www.jamb.org.ng, adding that such candidates were free to visit the Board’s website for their results. He also explained that the results would be released in batches to enable candidates who have already taken the examination to check them. Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, recently said unlike…

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement, CNM, Monday, said that the speculation that the platform has adopted the Social Democratic Party, SDP, as its political platform was not true. A statement signed by Omoruyi Edoigiwerie, a member of its National Steering Committee, in Abuja, read: “The attention of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement, CNM, has been drawn to the speculation that it has endorsed the Social Democratic Party, SDP, as its political platform. ”It is imperative to categorically state that such insinuation is completely false. We urge all Nigerians to disregard it,…

The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Tuesday released results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates in the 2018-First Series in Lagos with 17.13 per cent pass in English Language and Mathematics. This is even as the results of 1,021 candidates, representing 9.03 per cent of the total candidature for the examination are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice. Speaking at WAEC national office in Lagos, Mr Olu Adenipekun, the Head of Nigeria Office, said: “A total of 11,721 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 11,307 candidates sat the…

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has chided President Muhammadu Buhari for saying that he was unaware that the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, did not carry out his orders regarding the security situation in Benue State. The party said such admission shows that the President is running an incompetent and uncoordinated government. “President Buhari had irredeemably indicted himself for not knowing that the man tasked with the security of the nation failed to take orders from him (the Commander-in-Chief), the party observed and stressed that such unpardonable gaffe was responsible for “government’s wrecking of the nation’s once robust economy as…

The House of Representatives joint committees on Finance and Petroleum Resources Downstream Tuesday walked out officials of Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, over improper representation. This is just as Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State, Petroleum, and Maikanti Baru, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, failed to show up and were also not represented. Peeved by this development, Babangida Ibrahim, APC, Katsina, the joint committee chairman, in his ruling, declared that the committee would start a full-scale public hearing on the issue. Ibrahim said: “We must get to the…

Oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Eni have voluntarily filed to US authorities internal probes into how they acquired a giant field in Nigeria as the companies seek to fight corruption allegations in Europe and Africa. According to Reuters, the filings to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) do not mean US authorities are investigating Shell or Eni. But the move shows the companies are trying to pre-empt questions from the United States as they face one of the oil industry’s biggest-ever graft trials in Italy to begin in May in Milan, a…

A long-time personal assistant to President Donald Trump was reportedly fired and escorted out of the White House on Monday, with one report claiming the ouster was due to a criminal investigation. John McEntee was unceremoniously removed from his position because the Department of Homeland Security is investigating him for “serious financial crimes,” CNN reported, citing an unidentified source familiar with his termination. The alleged crimes are said to not be related to Trump. The Wall Street Journal, which was the first to break the news of McEntee’s ouster, reported that he was removed because of an “unspecified security issue,” citing an unidentified…

Hope of Akwa Ibom Specialist Hospital, Uyo becoming fully operational is blooming as the state government has concluded plans to recruit new management experts and consultants to manage the health institution. The hospital, built at the cost of about N41 billion and inaugurated just three years ago by the previous administration was shut down in September last year after the private managers, Cardiocare Medical Services Ltd, terminated their contract with the state government and withdrew from the facility. The company was said to have had a disagreement with the state government over the funding of the hospital. Governor Udom Emmanuel stated…

The Zambian government’s crackdown on the use of s3x dolls foists on offenders heavy jail terms. The brouhaha has made media headlines nationally, regionally and internationally, provoked social media debate and became a hot topic of discussion. Though opinions are divided in the largely conservative southern African country, Lusaka describes sex dolls “very unnatural.” “Being a Christian nation, obviously we are anchored in Christian principles and one of the values is morality and ethics,” Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs Godfridah Sumaili told AFP. Sumaili warned that selling or using a sex doll was against Zambian law, before vowing…