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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Sunday, stated that in partnership with Waltersmith Petroleum Oil Limited, they would assist Equatorial Guinea in developing modular refineries in the central African nation. In a statement in Abuja, the NCDMB stated that the building of modular refineries in Equatorial Guinea would enable the country to process some of its crude oil and derive increased value from the hydrocarbon resources. It will be recalled that Nigeria is yet to build a modular refinery in the country, despite repeated calls by experts for the same to be built to address the over-dependence of…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, said that the reason governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were defending last week’s Supreme Court judgment on the Imo governorship election is because many of them “are products of huge electoral manipulations.” The party noted that APC governors’ attempt at cheap blackmail will never stop it and millions of Nigerians from demanding a review and reversal of the judgment in which the Supreme Court “manufactured and donated fictitious votes to name a 4th position candidate, winner of the Imo State governorship election. In a statement by its spokesman,…

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has commenced a process that would trigger the construction of smart mini-grid systems both in the urban and rural communities across the country. Chairman of NERC, Professor James Momoh, who stated this while speaking with newsmen on the prospect of the 11th International Conference on Energy, Power Systems Operation and Planning, ICEPSOP, Abuja 2020 holding Sunday, at the nation’s capital, declared that centralised national grid system was no longer sustainable for a growing economy like Nigeria. The conference themed “Empowering Micro-Grid with Smart Attributes Development in the United States and Africa,’’ according to Prof.…

The South-South Elders said that it was logical and fair to allow the zone to produce the next President for another for four years so as to complete the zone’s second tenure. The elders said that there would be a crisis that could tear the country apart if the North should insist on retaining the office of the President after the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure. Speaking in an interview in Abuja, weekend, His Highness, Anabs Sara Igbe, National Coordinator of South-South Elders Forum, said that the zone was better placed in the South to clinch the Presidency in…

Liverpool stretched their commanding lead at the top of the Premier League to 16 points and advantage over Manchester United to 30 as goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah earned a 2-0 win over their historic rivals at Anfield. A 13th straight league win since the sides last met at Old Trafford in October continues Liverpool’s relentless run towards a first league title in 30 years, while United remain five points off the top four in fifth. Liverpool also have a game in hand to come on closest challengers Manchester City and could have been more comfortable winners…

By Israel Umoh Year 2023 is still far away, but not to politicians. It is not even far to clergymen; after all they can prophesy events now to manifest in years to come. As the year approaches, politicians are laying the sub-structure of politics to grab political offices. In so doing, they will work hand in glove with clergymen, herbalists or mediums to snatch their prospective offices. Moreover, the politicians evolve political strategies to outwit their enemies and throw them overboard. It is said that a recent meeting between the Governor Udom Emmanuel and fathers of faith in the state,…

By Akanimo Sampson China, the Asian country is posing an existential threat to the rights of people worldwide, the Human Rights Watch has dealt a seeming fatal blow on the global economic tiger. The government, according to the vocal rights group, allegedly sees human rights as an existential threat. “Its reaction could pose an existential threat to the rights of people worldwide,’’ the group said. In its detailed report on China, Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of the global rights group, said at home, the Chinese Communist Party, worried that permitting political freedom will jeopardise its grasp on power, has…

By Akanimo Sampson Migration is becoming a key contributor to population change in some countries, a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has shown. In Equatorial Guinea for instance, the proportion of international migrants as a percentage of the country’s population has risen sharply in recent years. Nearly 17 percent of people now living in Equatorial Guinea are migrants, compared to less than one percent as recently as 2005. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states also have witnessed significant population changes as a result of migration. With many people moving to the region for work, migrants make up…

A High Court in Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Friday, January 17, affirmed the sacking of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of Young Peoples Party (YPP). Ubah, a Nigerian businessman, CEO of Capital Oil and owner of Ifeanyi Ubah FC won the Senatorial seat into Anambra South on February 23, 2019. The court, in a ruling by Justice Bello Kawu, re-affirmed the order it made on April 11, 2019, and declined to set aside its judgment on the nullification of Ubah for allegedly using a forged National Examination Council (NECO) certificate to contest the senatorial election held in…

For the fourth consecutive month, Nigeria’s inflation rate climbed to 11.98% in December 2019 as food prices continue to skyrocket due to border closures. The latest figure is 0.13% points higher than the rate recorded in November 2019 (11.85%). The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated this in its consumer price index (CPI) report for December 2019 released in Abuja on Friday, January 17, 2019. According to the report, increases were recorded in all Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) divisions that yielded the Headline index. “On a month-on-month basis, the Headline index increased by 0.85 percent in…