LAGOS — The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has clarified the process it uses for accounting for crude production in the country. The agency disclosed that most incidents relating to oil theft occur from the land terminals. A statement issued on Thursday in Lagos by Mr. Paul Osu, Head, Public Affairs, DPR, said Mr. Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR made the clarification while speaking before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Oil Theft in Abuja....
ABUJA — The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) mobile court has ordered the reopening of Wuse, UTC markets, and Murg Shopping Plaza shut down on Monday in Abuja for violating COVID-19 safety protocol. The court also slammed the fine of N50, 000 each on the three facilities, for over flagrant disregard to COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations Act 2021, which must be paid before the reopening. Mr. Ikharo Attah, Head, Media and Enlightenment of FCT Ministerial...
SAN FRANCISCO — An engineering director and a software developer have quit Alphabet Inc’s Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts at the search giant over diversity and ethics. David Baker, a director focused on user safety, left Google last month after 16 years because Gebru’s exit “extinguished my desire to continue as a Googler,” he said in a letter seen by Reuters. Baker added, “We cannot...
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday suspended 20 countries from entering its Kingdom, ranging from some neighboring states to the United States. The Muslim nation is doing this to curb the jump in coronavirus infection. The temporary suspension was announced by the interior minister, adding that it would be effective from 9.00 pm (1800 GMT) on Wednesday, according to the official Saudi Press. The ban is applied to neighboring Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and...
ABUJA — The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 1,138 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 134,690. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the country has so far tested 1,302,410 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020. The Nigerian public health agency also confirmed additional five coronavirus-related...
ABUJA — The Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Tuesday said it was working with the Federal Government to make Coronavirus vaccines available in the country. The Forum’s Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, said this while delivering a lecture titled “The role of Nigeria’s state governments in recovery: responses to COVID-19 linked challenges’’ at Chatham House Event, London, UK. Fayemi, in his speech made available to correspondents in Abuja, said that the COVID-19...
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday returned to Abuja after a four-day official visit to Daura, his hometown in Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Presidential aircraft carrying the president and some presidential aides landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at about 5.p.m. NAN reports that the president was welcomed at the airport by his Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Minister of...
ABUJA — Senator Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the suggestion that married underage girls should have the right to vote has been rejected. The senator disclosed this while at the NAN Forum in Abuja on Tuesday. The matter had generated widespread criticism when it was brought up in the senate in December 2020. According to Gaya, a memorandum on the matter was “submitted by...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed grave concerns over the increased banditry in the north-west region of the country, where President Muhammadu Buhari hails from. Obasanjo asked Buhari to wake up and fight banditry and other growing crimes, especially in the northern part of Nigeria. The ex-President spoke on Sunday in a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, urging Buhari to start leaving an enduring legacy as President. The ex-President said, “I thought...
Several reactions have trailed the testimony of Reddington Hospital on the Lekki shooting of October 20, 2020, which halted the two weeks long demonstration against Police brutality. On Saturday, during cross-examination with the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Dr. Babajide Lawson, a physician with Reddington Hospital confirmed to the panel that the victims of the shooting were treated in the hospital facility. His testimony countered that of the military who claimed that no...
