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A total of 531 million litres of petrol valued at over N50 billion was lost to pipeline vandals between January and September, 2015, at the problematic System 2B Pipeline network which stretches from the Atlas Cove in Lagos to Ilorin, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Thursday.   Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) a subsidiary of the NNPC, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, said this in a presentation to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream. Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue said that the losses which chiefly accrued from the incessant hacking of the pipeline at the notorious Arepo to Mosimi axis of the pipeline artery has made the task of providing seamless flow of petroleum products to retail outlets more burdensome. According to a statement by NNPC spokesman, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, the PPMC boss told Senators that despite the challenge posed by the unavailability of the vital System 2B Pipeline network, the PPMC has continued to ensure that ...

The independent National Election has declared Kogi State governorship election inconclusive, the resident electoralcommissioner Hussiani Pai said this today. details later.... The final collation of yesterday’s governorship election has been concluded at the INEC office in Lokoja and the computation is being done for the final declaration by the Returning officer, Professor Emmanuel Kucha, of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi. The results so far collated ‎puts the APC candidate Prince Abubakar Audu ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor Idris Wada. Audu won majority votes in 16 out of the 21 local ‎government areas. Audu has so far garnered about 240, 867 votes as against the 199, 514 votes scored by his closest challenger, Wada. APC defeated the People’s Democratic Party candidate and incumbent, Idris Wada in in the following local government areas as already declared: Ofu, Ida, Kabba Bunu, Yagba East, Yagba West, Adavi, Koton Karfi, Ankpa, Okehi, Aja...

Two suspected members of Boko Haram militants disguising as members of the Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’a Wa’iqamitis Sunna (JIBWIS) First Aid Group ‎have been arrested and handed over to the police. The National Director of JIBWIS First Aid Group, Malam Mustapha Imam Sitti, disclosed this to our correspondent in Zaria saying that the arrest followed an advice that was issued to all religious groups by the military of the possibility of terrorists to use their uniforms. Police Area Commander in charge of Zaria headquarters, Muhammad D.‎ Shehu, confirmed the arrest, explaining that the two suspects would be‎ transferred to the police state command. Sitti said: “the first suspect was caught fully dressed in our uniform. Members of our First Aid Group (‘Yan Agaji) have their uniform. Following the military’s advice, we have introduced certain security measures. Through those measures, our members can identify themselves anywhere they meet. This was how we arrested the suspect and handed him ...

Russian state corporation, Rosatom and the Egyptian government signed a deal on Thursday to build Egypt's first nuclear power plant in a deal estimated at 20 billion dollars. ``With this signing we have taken the first step to fulfilling Egypt's dream of peaceful nuclear power,' Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi said at the signing ceremony. The facility is planned to be built over 12 years in the north-western Egyptian region of El Dabaa and consist of four reactors, each capable of producing 1,200 megawatts of power. The surveying work for the construction is expected to begin in December and Russia will begin training Egyptian nuclear workers for the facility in 2016. Previously, Russia helped Iran construct its first civilian nuclear power plant, near the south-western city of Bushehr. Russia turned over operational control of that plant in 2013 and clinched a deal 2014 to build an additional two reactors at the facility. 

Scores were feared dead in Kano on Wednesday from twin blast at the heart of GSM market, Nassarawa GRA. A witness, Ali Isa said the Improvised Explosive Device was planted close to the generator serving the market, while the second bomb went off at the heart of the market The blast went off during the late afternoon prayers triggered pandemonium within the vicinity.

The first Federal Executive Council [FEC] under the Buhari Administration was formally inaugurated last Wednesday with the swearing-in of ministers. President Buhari nominated thirty six ministers in two batches, one from each state of the federation. All 36 of them were confirmed by the Senate. Together with the president, vice president and other key officials, they will now make up the FEC. One controversy that dogged the run up to the council’s inauguration was the issue of whether each of the ministers would have a portfolio. In the end, all the ministers were assigned portfolios. Twenty five of them are senior ministers while 11 others are Ministers of State. Observers and pundits were taken by surprise in several cases and their predictions about which ministers will get what portfolios tuned out to be wrong in several cases. President Buhari said at the ceremony that he assigned square pegs to square holes and that he placed each minister in the portfolio where he rightly bel...

President Muhammadu says he received the news of the recent dastardly and heinous terrorist attacks on innocent civilians in Paris with great shock and profound sadness. The president, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman Mr Femi Adesina, sympathised with President Francois Hollande and the people France. President Buhari also condoled with the families, relatives and friends of the unfortunate victims of the callous attacks. He said he totally condemned the barbaric attacks which, according to him, constitute an unacceptable affront to all human values and civilised norms. He said as a country which had borne the terrible human cost of terrorist attacks, Nigeria stood in full solidarity with the government and people of France as they mourn those who had sadly lost their lives in the attack on Paris. Buhari calls on all peace-loving nations of the world to intensify ongoing multi-lateral cooperation and collaborative actions aimed at bringing the scourge of international ter...

The new ministers President Muhammadu Buhari swore in last week have tough hurdles to clear as they settle down to meet the change expectations of the president and the general public, experts the Daily Trust spoke with over the weekend unanimously affirmed.  Particularly identified are the key ministries of Finance, Defence and Petroleum, as well as that of Power, Works & Housing.   Distributing the portfolios last Wednesday, President Buhari handed the Finance ministry to Mrs Kemi Adeosun, while Mansur Dan-Ali, a retired Brigadier-general, will oversee Defence. The president himself hugs the Petroleum ministry to his chest for direct supervision, although the incumbent Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Continued from page 1  Dr Ibe Kachikwu, will actually be running the ministry as Minister of State.     The highlight of the portfolio distribution was immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, who Preside...

Eighty-seven more Nigerians have been confirmed dead, after the September 24 stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, thereby bumping up the death toll of Nigerians to 309, with 47 officially missing. Sokoto and Kano states still top the list of casualties. An official of the commission who pleaded anonymity told Daily Trust yesterday in Abuja that only 47 Nigerians remain officially missing, as those on admission have been discharged. The Head of Medical of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) Dr. Ibrahim Kana had told Daily Trust a fortnight ago that the latest figures then were 222 identified bodies, 130 missing and three recuperating in the hospital and that the commission would not leave any stone unturned to account for all Nigerians. “Majority have been buried in Makkah. We have all the records of graves of Nigerians. The idea is that we would share this with relations who may want to visit and pray for them,” Kana had said. During the Hajj exercise when the stampede occu...

Names (State) 1. Okechukwu Enemelah (Abia) Ministerial Portfolio (11/11/2015) Industry, Trade and Investment 2. Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa) FCT 3. Udo Udo Udoma – (Akwa Ibom) Budget and National Planning 4. Chris Ngige – (Anambra) Labour and Employment 5. Adamu Adamu (Bauchi) Education 6. Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa) State for Agriculture 7. Audu Ogbeh – (Benue) Agriculture 8. Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Bornu) State for power,works and Housing 9. Pastor Usani Uguru (Cross River) Niger Delta 10. Ibe Kachikwu – (Delta) State Minister for Petroleum 11. Ogbonaya Onu- (Ebonyi) Science and Technology 12. Osagie Ehanire – (Edo) State for Health 13. Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Solid Minerals 14. Geoffrey Onyema (Enugu) Foreign Affairs 15. Amina Mohammed – (Gombe) Environment 16. Prof Anthony Onwuka (Imo) State Education 17. Suleiman Adam – (Jigawa) Water Resources 18. Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna) State Budget and national planning 19. Sen Hadi Sirika – (Katsina) State Avia...

Names (State) 1. Okechukwu Enemelah (Abia) Ministerial Portfolio (11/11/2015) Industry, Trade and Investment 2. Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa) FCT 3. Udo Udo Udoma – (Akwa Ibom) Budget and National Planning 4. Chris Ngige – (Anambra) Labour and Employment 5. Adamu Adamu (Bauchi) Education 6. Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa) State for Agriculture 7. Audu Ogbeh – (Benue) Agriculture 8. Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Bornu) State for power,works and Housing 9. Pastor Usani Uguru (Cross River) Niger Delta 10. Ibe Kachikwu – (Delta) State Minister for Petroleum 11. Ogbonaya Onu- (Ebonyi) Science and Technology 12. Osagie Ehanire – (Edo) State for Health 13. Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Solid Minerals 14. Geoffrey Onyema (Enugu) Foreign Affairs 15. Amina Mohammed – (Gombe) Environment 16. Prof Anthony Onwuka (Imo) State Education 17. Suleiman Adam – (Jigawa) Water Resources 18. Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna) State Budget and national planning 19. Sen Hadi Sirika – (Katsina) State Avia...

President Muhammadu Buhari says it is not enough for tribunals to cancel and order re-run of an election, but that those whose actions or inactions led to such cancellation should be investigated and prosecuted if found culpable. The president said this must be done whether the culprits are individuals as candidates or party agents; institutions as political party or electoral body; public officers as electoral staff or security agents. President Buhari also stated that perpetrators of electoral violence and thuggery should not be spared. He was speaking at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday after swearing in the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and as INEC National Commissioners; Amina Zakari, Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, Antonia Taiye Okoosi-Simbine, Muhammed Mustafa Lecky and Baba Shettima Arfo. The ceremony was attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Bukola Saraki, House of Repres...

For about 25 minutes on Saturday evening, President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with the Golden Eaglets and their officials, urging them to strive for victory tomorrow in the final of the Under-17 FIFA World Cup holding in Chile.     Nigeria first won the same tournament in China in 1985 when Buhari was military head of state, and he urged the team to repeat the same feat tomorrow against Mali, to make it the fifth time Nigeria will win the trophy.   Starting with the head coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, President Buhari congratulated him for leading the team to the final, and then said:"Your victory tomorrow will remind Nigerians of what happened in China 30 years ago, and it will raise the morale of Nigerians, especially the youths. We're praying for you. We are anxiously waiting to receive the cup. Please put us on the world map of soccer again."   Speaking to Udoh Akpan, the goalkeeper, President Buhari said he was a very strategic member of the team, noting:"If you d...

The Chairman of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal Justice Musa Danladi Abubakar has declared Hajiya Aisha Jumai Alhassan of the All Progressive Congress (APC) winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election in Taraba State. The tribunal sitting at the Appeal Court Headquarters in Abuja on Saturday while delivering its judgment held that there was no valid candidate from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that contested the election. It ordered the immediate swearing-in of the APC candidate. The PDP did not hold a valid primary election, the tribunal ruled. The PDP candidate Darius Ishaku had been declared winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).   The APC candidate, Hajiya Aisha Jumai Alhassan had challenged the validity of Governor Darius Ishaku's election as declared by INEC.

The All Progressives Congress (APC)has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should stop wailing and insulting the judiciary for the electoral tragedy which it said the opposition party brought upon itself by engaging in ‘mindless rigging and violence’ in the last general elections. “The doomed opposition should also immediately stop its failed strategy of trying to distract the Muhammadu Buhari administration, which is busy cleaning up the mess left behind by the 16 years of locust of the sinking ‘PDP,” the party said. The APC said the resort to crude, personal attacks by PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh in his latest statement is a clear vindication of its stand that the PDP should urgently rebrand or go into extinction. In a statement issued yesterday in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said with a combustible and out-of-control spokesman like Metuh, there is no way the PDP will survive in opposition. “Metuh has shown, time and agai...