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With the unveiling of two new container handling equipment, the cargo handling timeline by the Ports and Terminal Operators Nigeria Limited, PTOL, has now reduced drastically, according to PTOL’s Chairman of Board of Directors Chief Dennis Okafor. Present at the commissioning ceremony at the new stacking yard of PTOL, which has stacking capacity for an additional 1,000 containers were Chief Dennis Okafor, chairman, PTOL board of directors, Chief Mike Nwaukoni and the Company Secretary, Barrister Chioma Okwuanyi. Nigerian Ports Authority was represented by Engr. Yunusa Ibrahim Anji. An elated Okafor spoke of the board’s plans of having PTOL as the…

By Akanimo Sampson Heavy rains and flash floods across 16 states in Sudan have sacked 346,300 people this September, according to the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). So far, approximately 41,514 homes have been destroyed and 27,742 have been damaged. Heavy rains are expected to continue and worsen in the coming weeks in River Nile, Red Sea, Al Jazeera, White Nile, North Kordofan, North Darfur and Khartoum States. As of September 17, six people had died of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) / Cholera, and at least 94 cases have been reported. Every year, floods and emergencies related to seasonal climatic shocks…

Over the years, Akwa Ibom State government has been embarking on the construction of Ibom Deep Seaport as a way of boosting its revenue and decongesting other ports in the country. The project, initiated by ex-governor Victor Attah, modeled by ex-governor Godswill Akpabio and fired by Governor Udom Emmanuel, occupies 2,565Ha of land area of the 14,517Ha. The approximate location of the project site scaled from the British Admiralty Chart No. 1387 are Latitude 04 32’ 35” N: Longitude 080 14’ 07” E. and UTM coordinates 415168 m E; 502,199 m N (UTM Zone 32N). The project site is strategically…

Akwa Ibom governor Udom Emmanuel said his administration inherited a whopping N32 billion gratuity arrears from the previous administration. Though Emmanuel who came to power in May 2015 did not give give period and a breakdown of the arrears, gratuity is usually paid public servants in civil service, public secondary and primary schools and local government civil service commission. The governor who interacted with journalists in the state on Tuesday to round-off the 32nd anniversary celebrations of Akwa Ibom State debunked the notion that his administration was owing pensions to retirees. However, investigation carried out by Straightnews shows that the…

By Akanimo Sampson Former 2011 Presidential running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), one of the coalition parties that formed the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tunde Bakare, has said that he will succeed his political associate as the 16th President of Nigeria in 2023. His 2023 presidential dream is coming to the open as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is busy denying that it did not provide N90 billion to finance the election campaign of the APC during the last controversial presidential election. The FIRS claimed in a statement…

By Akanimo Sampson On Monday, a young climate crisis activist, Greta Thunberg, opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with a seeming angry condemnation of world leaders, including Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, for failing to take strong measures to combat the menace of the climate crisis. At the event, Buhari promised that his administration will tackle climate change in Nigeria, and accordingly revealed how his administration planned to reverse the negative effects of climate change in the country. “I wish to reiterate Nigeria’s commitment to its obligation under the Paris agreement, the aspirations enshrined in our Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)…

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York, described the $9.6billion awarded in favour of an Irish firm, Process & Industrial Development, P&ID, Limited, as a scam. The President spoke on the matter for the first time on a day the Senate in Abuja, summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation & Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to brief it on the details of the contracts signed between the Federal Government and the Irish firm. Speaking at UNGA, the President said his government was tackling the challenges of corruption head-on. At present,…

By Akanimo Sampson A Rael-Science post says the Handan Public Security Bureau in Northern China has deployed three types of traffic robots to assist human officers in the city. Quoting a report in state-run news agency Xinhua, the post quotes Deputy Head of the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Management Research Institute, Zhou Zuoying, as saying the bots’ deployment marks China’s first use of “robot traffic police.” This is happening as Police officers in Zhengzhou, China have been spotted wearing sunglasses equipped with facial recognition software that allows them to identify individuals in a crowd. These surveillance sunglasses were actually…

By Akanimo Sampson Plots to abort the perceived 2023 presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor (1999-2007) and an influential All Progressives Congress (APC) leader have begun with a design aimed at throwing Vice President Yemi Osinbajo out of the Presidential Villa. Osinbajo, a senior pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is a political son of Tinubu who made him Attorney-General and Justice Commissioner of Lagos. Tinubu had nursed an ambition to run with President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. But religious concerns stalled the ambition since he is a Muslim like Buhari. At the…

The Senate, Wednesday, summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to brief it on the details of the contracts signed between the Federal Government and the Irish firm, Process and Industrial Developments, P&ID, Limited. Also asked to appear with the Minister are all the relevant stakeholders, parties to the agreement, including officials of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and professional arbitrators engaged on behalf of the Federal Government. They are expected to comprehensively brief the Senate Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream), Gas Resources and…