Day: March 24, 2021

The scandal in Port Harcourt refinery, by Eric Teniola

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Abracadabra is now commonly used as an incantation in the performance of magic. Literally it is used as the more you look, the less you know or see. Abracadabra is the best word t describe what is going on in Port Harcourt Refinery. The Refinery is situated at Alesa Eleme, which is 19km from Port Harcourt city. I have visited the refinery thrice. Twice I accompanied my two bosses, Alhaji Gidado Idris and Chief Ufot Ekaette, both late Secretaries to the Government of the Federation. My last visit to the…

NO TO $1.5B FOR PORT HARCOURT REFINERY REHABILITATION By Abba Dukawa

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  When General Muhammadu Buhari than took over the leadership of the country especially in 2015 as President of Nigeria. There was much high hope and Expectations that PMB’s administration would wave a magic hand and make all Nigeria problems disappeared. GMB’s campaign ran on a ‘Change’ mantra made numerous promises to Nigerians one of the promises is to revived and reactivate dead nation’s Refineries to optimum capacity and also to build more refineries. Why this much expectations from millions of Buharists and other Nigerians believed that with his experience as the former…

Gov Sani Bello lays foundation stone for 279 housing estate in Suleja

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In a bid to address housing deficit in Niger State, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has laid foundation stone for the construction of 279 housing scheme at the Old Barrack, Suleja. The housing project which is in partnership with Bamhill Properties is code named General JT Abubakar Social Housing and is expected to be completed in two years on a 40,000 square metre land. Laying the foundation stone, Governor Sani Bello noted that shelter is key, and that the state government will intensify efforts by creating the enabling environment for more…

Ex Kogi MILAD, Omeruo lauds Bello’s administration

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Impressed by the transformational leadership of his successor, former military administrator of Kogi State, Col Paul U.N.Omeruo has commended Governor Yahaya Bello for effective leadership and good governance stated that his administration is poised to actualise the dreams of the confluence state. Col Omeruo who was the military Administrator of Kogi State From 1993 –1996 gave the commendation while paying a courtesy call on the governor on Tuesday. Col Omeruo disclosed that he was attracted to the Governor for his audacious move to fight criminality to a standstill in Kogi,…

IIP-SARS: How Ifeoma Abugu died 3 hours after her arrest – DSP ….. as autopsy report shows asphyxiation

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DSP Melai Isaac has narrated before the Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police how late Ifeoma Abugu was allegedly killed while in police custody. DSP Melai in his testimony stated that Ifeoma Abugu was not the suspect abnitio, rather it was Afam Ugwunwa, her fiancé, a known drug baron, whose name was mentioned in statement given by one suspect called Lucky Idawaor, in a case of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and armed robbery that was…

House of Reps begins Public Hearing on alleged malpractices in foreign affairs ministry … as Hon.Yusuf Buba Yakub says world sees Nigeria through the ministry

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila on Tuesday declared open A Two-day Public Hearing on “Incessant Malpractices Associated with Diplomatic Postings in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”   He said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs among other things have the responsibility of designing and framing the way the world sees Nigeria, hence all efforts should be made to ensure there is no tragedy.   The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Ministr of State, Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada, Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Servic, Muhammed Babandede and…

30 years after: How Nasarawa executes joint venture to build 4000 low income houses By Ali Abare

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A journey that began over three decades ago, precisely in 1992, finally came to fruition, by the stroke of the pen, penultimate Wednesday, after Nasarawa State Government, entered into a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), with a major player in the real estate business in the country, Affinity Continental Royalty Limited, to develop the Peninsula Estate, in Karu Local Government area, initiated under the then old Plateau State. The landmark achievement, is coming barely two years into the administration of Engineer Abdullahi Sule, with the governor persistently bringing his private sector background…

Police cannot make IIP-SARS impotent-panellist ,says member

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The Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of human rights violations by defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the police force on Tuesday declared that it will not succumb to any plan by the police to render the panel impotent. A member of the panel, John Aikpokpo Martin stated this during the panel’s sitting in Abuja Tuesday when the police legal team led by James Idachaba tried to explain the absence of Commander of Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT), DCP Abba Kyari and other police…

NALDA trains 68 corps members, others as soil Doctors, extension service workers

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Sixty-eight Corps members were among the two hundred and sixty-nine pioneer graduates of a mass training of Soil Doctors and Extension Services Workers in the country. The training which was conducted by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) in collaboration with the Borno State Government is adjudged as another giant leap forward in the Federal Government’s efforts to boost agricultural production. The inclusion of the Corps members was part of the outcomes of an ongoing partnership between NYSC and NALDA aimed at ensuring success of the effort of the…

IIP-SARS: life is unbearable, petitioner laments,as counsel cries injustice

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The Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police on Monday in Abuja listened to the cry of a petitioner who bemoaned how the police dehumanized him by spitting on him and subsequently shot him close to his genitals. Testifying before Dr. Garba Tetengi SAN, who acted on behalf of the Chairman, Joseph Martins said that on the 19th October 2019, he was at a viewing center when he observed that Sgt Oludare, who was…