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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a steering committee to oversee the commencement of implementation of the newly signed Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. The steering committee is headed by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina. …

Operation Safe Corridor, OSC which was launched by the Muhammadu Buhari regime in 2016 was ostensibly aimed to encourage “repentant” Boko Haram terrorists to surrender and embrace the De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration, DRR, programme. People who killed destroyed schools, abducted schoolgirls, devastated entire communities, instigated suicide bombings, beheaded fellow human beings, created over two million refugees and massacred over 350,000 …

Kabul – The busy Kabul street looks almost as if nothing has changed. People rush by, as shopkeepers arrange their colorful merchandise, and police direct traffic. There’s one big change, though: There are almost no women here. Since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital on Sunday, women have largely stayed indoors, according to CNN report. The Taliban has repeatedly …

…As govt Prepares to begin second phase vaccination Edo State on Tuesday recorded one death and four new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), as the state prepares to begin the second phase vaccination rollout to protect citizens against the virus, amid the third wave of the pandemic. The State COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, disclosed this after the daily virtual …

Edo State Government has said efforts are being made to create the conducive environment to attract investors to expand the 350,000mt per annum aquaculture subsector to diversify the state’s economy. Functioning Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Peter Aikhuomobhogbe Uidia, disclosed this during a virtual engagement with Edo indigenes in the Diaspora. Stating that the state is seeking …

*Bank to deliver 40m doses of J&J vaccines to Nigeria by 2022 Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has commended the African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIM) for its efforts in stimulating and developing African trade, including its many engagements in Nigeria. Prof. Osinbajo made the observation today at the Presidential Villa while interacting with a delegation from the bank led by …

…Says: company’s reaction to its recent report was spurious, diversionary …Must deliver proper work to restore polluted environment in Ogoniland By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Nigeria’s foremost environmental advocacy group, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has condemned the response by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to its recent report: No Clean Up, No Justice: a decade of …

Nigeria’s 36 state governments have jointly sued the federal government at the Supreme Court over alleged illegal diversion of over N1.8 trillion in recovered loot. Also allegedly diverted by the federal government, according to the plaintiffs, are N450 billion worth of non-cash assets recovered proceeds of crime since 2015. The plaintiffs alleged that, instead of paying the cash into the …

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Monday, defended his administration’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Mr Biden, a day after Taliban militants seized control of the country, said he stood firmly by his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, adding that there was never going to be a right time to do that. He argued in a …

The Federal Government may soon end the fuel subsidy regime with the signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday. The PUNCH gathered on Monday that the government’s position of fuel subsidy would form the major item during the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva’s press conference on the petroleum …