Author: Kwara Reporters

The management of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has issued an operational licence to Edo Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited, Ologbo, Edo state.During a ceremony on Tuesday, Farouk Ahmed, chief executive officer (CEO) of NMDPRA, handed the certificate to AIPCC Energy Limited, the parent company of Edo refinery.Ahmed handed over the operational licence to Segun Okeni, the refinery’s head of technical operations.Speaking during the handover, Farouk commended the company for achieving the feat and enjoined the firm to do more.Responding on behalf of AIPCC Energy, Okeni said the company would continue to make contributions to the…

Examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing Nigeria to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their countries.The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board made this known in a document for the 2024 policy meeting.JAMB noted in the document that it would not falsify the records of any students while stressing the need to protect Nigeria’s tertiary education from disrepute.The development comes on the back of the Federal Government’s decision to suspend the verification of degree certificates from Uganda, Kenya, Benin Republic, Togo and some other countries over allegations of certificate racketeering.In March, the…

The Federal Government’s committee which was set up to ensure the implementation of crude oil sales to local refineries in naira has reached an agreement with the Dangote Petroleum Refinery for the rollout of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in September this year.The Federal Government also disclosed that the sale of crude oil to Dangote Refinery and other local refineries will commence on October 1, 2024. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, announced this during a meeting with the Implementation Committee on Monday in Abuja. According to a post on the official X…

The United Kingdom has donated a counter-insurgency training facility to the Nigerian Armed Forces in a boost to Nigeria’s military capabilities.The facility, located in Ogun State, was officially handed over on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by top military officials from both countries as contained in a statement from the British High Commission in Nigeria.The UK Ministry of Defence funded the construction of the facility, which was built by a team of Royal Engineers from the British Army in collaboration with Nigerian Army Engineers.The new training centre is designed to enhance the realism of military exercises, ensuring that Nigerian soldiers…

A 21-year-old female student of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Mojisola Awesu, who was contracted by her friend to act as a girlfriend for another private varsity student at a party for the sum of N15,000 has been found dead at a refuse dump in the Aleniboro area of Ilorin, Kwara State capital.The Kwara Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to press on Tuesday.According to the PPRO, a resident of the community had reported on August 12, 2024, that a dead body was found by some labourers at a refuse…

Human Rights activist and lawyer to the Nigeria Labour Congress, Chief Femi Falana, has replied to the Nigeria Police on why the President of NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, cannot honour the invitation to him to appear at the force headquarters on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, by 10 am.He explained that the NLC President had fixed an engagement for August 20, before the Police invitation was sent to him on Monday and promised to be available at the Police headquarters on August 29.Chief Falana, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in a letter to the Inspector General of Police,…

Politician and former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Abubakar Atiku has criticised President Bola Tinubu over reports on the re-introduction of fuel subsidies.Atiku was reacting to media reports alleging that the president had directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to spend the federation’s dividends on petrol subsidies.The report further alleged that NNPCL is expected to pause the payment of interim dividends for eight months this year — from May to December for payment of subsidies.Responding to the report, Atiku in a statement on his verified X handle on Monday, described the…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike at midnight if anything happens to Joe Ajaero, its president.Ado Kabiru Sani, deputy president of the NLC, said this on Tuesday in a communique issued after the national executive council (NEC) meeting.The NEC meeting was convened to discuss Ajaero’s invitation by the police over allegations bordering on “terrorism financing”.NEC agreed that Ajaero should honour the police invitation and asked the nation’s workforce to be on standby for further directives should the police take it further.“As a responsible labour centre committed to the rule of law and…

A teenage resident in Osogbo, Osun State, (name withheld), has accused a clergy also based in the town, simply identified as Femi, said to be her stepfather, of putting her in the family way at the age of 13.The victim, aged 16, had approached a Non-Governmental Organisation, the World Institute for Peace, to report the matter and seek Alternative Dispute Resolution.She had also claimed in an affidavit, sworn to at the Osun State Ministry of Justice, that after her stepfather impregnated her, the pregnancy was aborted.She further said during a meeting held with the officials of the NGO that the…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says the federal government owes it N7.8 trillion for petrol subsidy.NNPC’s disclosure comes after denying the existence of petrol subsidy on Monday.TheCable had reported that President Bola Tinubu approved a request by NNPC to utilise the 2023 final dividends due to the federation to pay for the petrol subsidy.However, Umar Ajiya, NNPC’s chief financial officer, during a media briefing on the company’s 2023 audited financial statements (AFS) in Abuja, said the company was only “taking care of the shortfall on petrol importation between it and the federation”.After the public denial, Ajiya told Bloomberg,…