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The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company, NLNG, Wednesday, announced that SCD Joint Venture, JV, Consortium, comprising Saipem of Italy, Japan’s Chiyoda and Daewoo of South Korea, has emerged the preferred bidder for its Liquefied Natural Gas Train 7 project. The announcement was made by the Managing Director of the Nigeria LNG, Mr. Tony Attah, at the Letter of Intent Signing Ceremony in Abuja. He noted that with the presentation of the Letter of Intent to the SCD JV Consortium, the group had been awarded the contract to undertake the Engineering, Procurement and Construction, EPC, for the Train 7 project. Attah further stated…

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the relevant government officials and agencies to expedite action on the Consequential Adjustment Negotiations on Minimum Wage He also approved the constitution of the Presidential Committee on Salaries and Allowances to handle all requests after the conclusion of Consequential Adjustment Negotiations. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, disclosed this at Ministry of Labour headquarters, Abuja, when the Executive of Labour Correspondents Association of  Nigeria, LACAN, paid him a solidarity visit over his re-appointment. He explained that the directive by the President for quick completion of Consequential Adjustment Negotiations would help to ward…

The United Kingdom has announced a new visa regime which will allow foreign students stay and work in the country for two years after graduation. British Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, who stated this Wednesday, said the new policy would come into effect for students starting courses in 2020. The plan is an overturn of Theresa May’s 2012 immigration policy which mandated foreign students to leave four months after finishing a degree in the UK. According to him, the new policy will allow graduates apply for jobs regardless of their skills or the subject they studied. He said the policy was…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, explained that he decided to split the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and that of Transportation and Aviation to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure delivery programmes and projects. Buhari also reiterated that majority of Nigerians who voted for his government gave a clear mandate that included enhancement of the security of lives and property across the entire country, create a diversified and inclusive economy that will bring prosperity to all and to install governance and accountability in systems and processes, with a view to eliminating corruption. Speaking in his remarks at the first Federal…

By Akanimo Sampson The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is moving quickly to mobilise resources to assist rehabilitation efforts in Abaco and Grand Bahama, islands in the Bahamas devastated last week by Hurricane Dorian. The rehabilitation initiative is on as search and rescue operations continue.  On Monday, IOM started the distribution of 1,000 tarpaulin coats in Marsh Harbour – the largest urban centre in Abaco.  The tarps will be used as a temporary fix for roofs torn by the violent Category 5 storm. This is, however, happening as a new report by the IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC)…

By Akanimo Sampson More than 1,400 people have been killed within a period of six months in Nigeria as a result of kidnapping and banditry, the United Nations (UN) said on Tuesday just as Biafra agitators stormed the European Union (EU) Parliament to lobby for Europe’s support for their quest for a Sovereign State of Biafra out of Nigeria. Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, said that it was the ill treatment meted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of President Muhammadu Buhari that aggravated the situation that worsened the agitation for Biafra. In a…

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Wednesday, upheld the election of President Muhammadu Buhari as the actual winner of the February 23 presidential election. It also said it has come to an inevitable conclusion that the petitioners have not proved any of the grounds of the petition as known by law and consequently discarded the petition in its entirety. “And the petition is hereby dismissed in its entirety,” says the leading judge, Mohammed Garba. This development followed a petition dated March 18, by Atiku and PDP challenging the declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that Buhari as the winner…

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed preliminary objection the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, filed to challenge the non-inclusion of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, SAN, as a party to the petition challenging the outcome of the February 23 presidential election. INEC had in the motion it filed on May 5, asked the tribunal to strike out the petition over failure to join the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo as a necessary party in the case.  It argued that by section 133 and 137(2) of the Electoral Act, Prof. Osibanjo, was a co-winner of the presidential election…

At least 3,600 children from the Boko Haram-wreaked North East are said to be detained by the Nigerian military, a report released by Human Rights Watch, HRW, on Tuesday indicated. The report said most of the children, including 1,617 girls, were being detained at Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. But Defence Headquarters, in a pre-emptive manner on Monday, dismissed the report, saying no child was held in detention facilities in the North East. However, Human Rights Watch said the military had since 2013, arbitrarily detained the children in “degrading and inhuman conditions” for suspected involvement with the…

Anxiety mounts as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has fixed Wednesday to deliver judgment on the petition seeking to nullify President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election. The Justice Mohammed Garba-led five-member panel tribunal had on August 21, reserved its verdict on the petition the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lodged to challenge the outcome of the February 23 presidential election declared in favour of President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The tribunal is mandated under section134 (1) to (3) of the Electoral Act, 2010, to determine the petition filed on March…