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NPDC Crude Oil Pipeline Set Ablaze After Osinbajo’s Visit
18Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
News

NPDC Crude Oil Pipeline Set Ablaze After Osinbajo’s Visit

UGHELLI- LESS than 24 hours after the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbanjo, visited Delta State, unknown persons set fire on a crude oil pipeline at Ughelli, in the state, sparking fears of attacks by suspected oil rebels. The pipeline belonging to the Niger Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, located behind the SETRACO construction yard, along the East/West express road, was seen raging with fire at about 4:30p.m, sending huge balls of flame into the atmosphere, which could be seen from different parts of Ughelli metropolis. Though the flame had subsided at about 7:12p.m, Vanguard could not immediately reach the spot reason, as the terrain could not be easily accessed As at press time, it was not certain if the cause of the fire was as a result of an attack or environmental impac...
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Nigeria’s External Reserves Hit $27.2bn
18Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
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Nigeria’s External Reserves Hit $27.2bn

Nigeria’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves have increased to $27.223 billion as at January 16, 2017, according to latest figures on the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) website. The growth in the reserves, derived majorly from the proceeds of crude oil sales represented an increase by $1.380 billion or 5.3 per cent in the last 17 days, compared with the $25.843 billion that it was as at December 30, 2015. It was also indicative that the drop in militancy in the Niger Delta and rising oil exports led to the accretion in the forex reserves. Oil prices settled up on Monday, as Saudi Arabia’s commitments to reducing production offset a report forecasting U.S. output would again rise this year. Benchmark Brent crude oil LCOc1 was up 41 cents a barrel, or 0.7 percent, at $55.86 and U...
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Maritime University Land Acquired In Dubious Way – Olu Of Warri
18Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
News

Maritime University Land Acquired In Dubious Way – Olu Of Warri

THE Olu of Warri, Delta State, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, has fingered the Federal and Delta State Governments for allegedly acquiring the site of the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state, now a matter of disagreement between Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups, from impostors. The Olu, who bared the Itsekiri position when he hosted visiting Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at his palace in Warri, demanded that the Federal Government appropriately acquire the NMU site from the Itsekiri people of Omadino, the lawful owners of Okerenghigho community, and not interlopers, who renamed it Okerenkoko. There has been no love lost between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic nationalities in the state over the ownership of the location of the univers...
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Osinbajo Visits Niger Delta Today, Youths Give Condition For Peace
16Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
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Osinbajo Visits Niger Delta Today, Youths Give Condition For Peace

Ahead of today’s (Monday) visit by the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo-led Federal Government delegation to the restive oil-rich Niger Delta, youths in the region on Sunday released a 22-point demand, including the immediate release of detained activists and ex-militants arrested by operatives of the Nigerian military in the region. The youths said the demand, if granted by the Federal, would engender lasting peace in the Niger Delta. They also declared their support for the Chief Edwin Clark-led Pan Niger Delta Forum to negotiate between the people of the region and the Federal Government to ensure sustainable peace in the region. They also demanded the immediate restructuring of the Presidential Amnesty Programme so as to meet the needs of all ethnic nationalities in the region. ...
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Fresh Row Over New N7b Vice President’s Residence
15Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
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Fresh Row Over New N7b Vice President’s Residence

WITH about N6.215billion already spent in eight years on the new official residence of the nation’s Vice President in Abuja, the project remains enmeshed in controversy. While the House of Representatives Committee on FCT is alleging that the job done does not commensurate with the 87 percent of the contract sum paid, no one seems to know when the project will be ready for occupation. . The project has been abandoned in the last five years owing to disagreement between the Senate and the Federal Capital Development Authority on the variation of the project. The contract was awarded in 2009 at a cost of N7billion but N6.215 billion was paid to the contractors. In 2012, the immediate past Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, submitted a request for additional N9billion to ...
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Christine Izuakor Breaks PhD Record In USA (Pictures)
4Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
Lifestyle

Christine Izuakor Breaks PhD Record In USA (Pictures)

On December 16th 2016, despite much doubt and discouragement, Christine Izuakor humbly earned the right to be called Dr. Izuakor. She graduated with a PhD in Security Engineering and became the youngest & first African American at her university to do so. In the same year, Christine became the Vice President and co-founder of Gen Trend at United Airlines. She was published in numerous international journals, and traveled to 19 cities across 10 countries - all while working a full-time job on the cyber security team of a Fortune 100 company, in which she recently received a promotion. Talk about a female powerhouse! Her words; “I started my PhD program at age 23 and at the time was told I was too young, too naive and too inexperienced to contribute anything to my industry. But, I ...
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Nigerian Government Starts Paying N5,000 Every Month To Poorest Citizens
3Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
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Nigerian Government Starts Paying N5,000 Every Month To Poorest Citizens

The Federal Government has commenced the payment of N5,000 monthly to one million vulnerable Nigerians. In a statement released, Monday, by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, the government stated that the payment was effected through the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, of the government’s Social Investment Programmes, SIP. According to the statement, one million Nigerians would receive N5,000 monthly payments under the CCT as a form of social safety net for the poorest and most vulnerable as budgeted for in the 2016 Budget. Mr. Akande added that many of the beneficiaries have already reported receiving their first payments in the first batch that commenced last week. “In the first batch that commenced last week, nine ...
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King of Morocco Visits Nigeria
2Dec By Czar Owolabi Marcus1 Comment
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King of Morocco Visits Nigeria

Last night, King Mohammed VI of Morocco arrived Nigeria for an Official visit. He was received by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and will later today visit President Buhari at the State House Abuja.
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Dolapo & Yemi Osinbajo Celebrate 27th Wedding Anniversary
25Nov By Czar Owolabi Marcus1 Comment
Entertainment

Dolapo & Yemi Osinbajo Celebrate 27th Wedding Anniversary

The second Nigeria's family are in a happy zone, as Vice president Yemi Osinbajo and wife Dolapo celebrates their 27th wedding anniversary. Mrs Dolapo Osinbanjo posted a picture of herself, her husband and children, cutting an anniversary cake, and captioned it: "27 years with my friend. All glory to the Lord." She ended the post with the hashtag "#WeddingAnniversary."
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Buhari, Osinbajo, Tinubu, Aregbesola Absent At APC Rally In Ondo State
10Nov By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
Events

Buhari, Osinbajo, Tinubu, Aregbesola Absent At APC Rally In Ondo State

The crisis rocking the Ondo State All Progressives Congress came to the fore on Thursday as top officials of the party including President Muhammadu Buhari were absent from a scheduled rally. The rally was organised by the Ondo APC to flag off the campaign of Rotimi Akeredolu, its candidate for the November 26 governorship election in the state. Apart from Mr. Buhari, other notable absentees were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu, and governor of neighbouring Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola. The event commenced on Thursday morning at the Democracy Park in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Introducing the dignitaries present in order of protocol, the National Organising Secretary of the APC, Osita Izunaso, said Mr. Osinbajo was represented by his Chief of Staff. ...
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Why we missed October deadline to employ 200,000 – VP Osinbajo Reveals
7Nov By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments
Interviews

Why we missed October deadline to employ 200,000 – VP Osinbajo Reveals

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has attributed the failure of the Federal Government to engage 200,000 graduates in October as promised to the need to get the required equipment. He however assured Nigerians that the graduates would be engaged in the next two weeks. According to a statement on Sunday by his spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President disclosed this while speaking at the Apostolic Coalition Summit in Lagos. “The programme should have commenced as of October 31, 2016, but is delayed on account of the fact that we are trying to get as many of the equipment that we require,” he was quoted to have said. Osinbajo was referring to the tablets that would be given to all the 500,000 N-power undergraduate participants, according to the statement. He further disclosed...
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Equatorial Guinea’s President Appoints His Son As Vice President
23Jun By Czar Owolabi Marcus1 Comment
News

Equatorial Guinea’s President Appoints His Son As Vice President

Until this year, Teodoro Obiang Nguema had never won less than 97 percent of the vote in an election. Perhaps the immense international scorn he has faced in recent years caused him to loosen his grip a bit, because he won only 93.7 percent when reelected to his sixth term as leader of Equatorial Guinea this year. He is the world's longest-serving president, having ruled for almost 37 years. According to Washington Post, he has further consolidated his power by promoting his son, Teodoro "Teodorín" Obiang Mangue, from "second vice president" to simply vice president. Power has been in the family for Equatorial Guinea's entire existence as an independent country. The current president toppled his uncle in a violent coup in 1979, before sentencing him to death by firing squad. Since the...
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Yemi Osibanjo’s Daughter Graduates With a Master’s Degree in The US
14Jun By Czar Owolabi Marcus1 Comment
News

Yemi Osibanjo’s Daughter Graduates With a Master’s Degree in The US

One of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo's daughters recently graduated with a master's degree from a private, Ivy League research university - Dartmouth College, in the US. Her mother, Dolapo Osinbajo made the announcement and shared a photo from the graduation via her official Instagram page. She wrote, 'Giving God glory at our daughter's graduation! A master's degree and the Byam Shaw-Brownstone M.A.L.S. Thesis Excellence Award at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire #family'
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Niger Delta Governors Want Corruption Charges Dropped Across The Region To Stop Pipeline Attacks
8Jun By Czar Owolabi Marcus4 Comments
News

Niger Delta Governors Want Corruption Charges Dropped Across The Region To Stop Pipeline Attacks

Governors of the South-South region who met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House today called for a majority of the corruption cases in the region to be dropped by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The meeting was attended by Governors of Edo, Ondo, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Abia, as well as the Deputy Governor of Cross River. Sahara reporters source, who was at the meeting, said that only the Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole and the deputy Governor of Cross River opposed the others, who singled out the federal government’s anti-corruption initiative as the reason why Niger Delta Avengers are blowing up pipelines in the region. Speaking one after the other, the governors reportedly asked the Federal government to drop charges agai...
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