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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited on Thursday launched five Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) mini-plants in Ajaokuta, Kogi State. The five LNG mini-plants are PRIME LNG, NGML/Gasnexus LNG, BUA LNG, Highland LNG, and LNG Arete. These plants will take their feedstock, which is natural gas, from natural gas pipes that are already traveling up to the Ajaokuta location. The main source pipeline for the mini-plants are the AKK pipeline, which is the Ajaokuta-Kano-Kaduna gas pipeline being built by the Federal Government. These plants would serve gas to parts of the country that are currently without any form of gas…

Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have paid a condolence visit to Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde over the death of his elder brother, Sunday Makinde. Sunday died in the early hours of Friday during a brief illness at the age of 65. The Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, Gov. Bala Mohammed, led his colleagues on the condolence visit to Makinde in his private residence at Agodi GRA, Ibadan. The Bauchi State Governor described Makinde’s brother as a man who lived a fulfilled life and expressed the forum’s heartfelt sympathy to his Oyo colleague. He assured Makinde of the…

Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, the company said Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement of the suit brought against Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, in what was seen as a victory for Trump. According to people familiar with the agreement, the Journal said, $22 million of the payment will go towards funding Trump’s future presidential library, with the remainder covering legal fees and payments to other plaintiffs in the…

The 79th meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee chaired by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, to interface with the parties fighting over the office of the National Secretary and report back to the board in a couple of weeks. In a 10 points communique issued at the end of its BoT meeting held at the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital and read by the BoT chairman, Senator Adolphous Wabara they resolved as follows: 1. The BoT expresses serious concerns over the unresolved challenges facing the Party especially…

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority consumer protection director Michael Achimugu says the regulator has been compiling “organisational risk profiles” for scheduled operators, including Max Air. This project is “nearing its conclusion”, he says. “However, as a result of this incident, Max Air is suspending its domestic flight operations for a period of three months…to allow for an internal appraisal of its operations by its management,” Achimugu adds. Over the period of suspension the regulator will perform a “thorough safety and economic audit” of Max Air, examining its organisation, procedures, aircraft and personnel, as well as analysing its financial health to assess…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it will introduce financial incentives for students learning in technical and vocational schools as part of a broader reform to strengthen the country’s workforce. This was revealed by education minister Tunji Alausa while speaking on Channels television. Alausa outlined a four-step plan aimed at increasing enrolment in vocational institutions and addressing Nigeria’s human capacity gaps. He confirmed that students in these schools would receive financial support, saying, “We would pay students to go to those schools. We’ve modelled how much we’re going to pay them when we roll the programme out.” The reform…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it will introduce financial incentives for students learning in technical and vocational schools as part of a broader reform to strengthen the country’s workforce. This was revealed by education minister Tunji Alausa while speaking on Channels television. Alausa outlined a four-step plan aimed at increasing enrolment in vocational institutions and addressing Nigeria’s human capacity gaps. He confirmed that students in these schools would receive financial support, saying, “We would pay students to go to those schools. We’ve modelled how much we’re going to pay them when we roll the programme out.” The reform…

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, in company with senior officials of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on Tuesday undertook a tour of facilities at Brightwaters Energy Limited, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The tour to the company’s facilities at Choba, Port Harcourt, and Emohua in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State was a follow up to the NCDMB’s boss earlier visit to the company and some pipe coating facilities in May 2024. At that visit he pledged the Board’s support for local service companies, giving them opportunities in the…

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday officially recognised the exit of three of its former members Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic which became effective today, January 29, 2025, upon the expiration of a one-year notice period. However, in “the spirit of regional solidarity”, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) asked its member countries to still recognise the national passports of the three exiting countries bearing the ECOWAS logo until further notice. In a statement, ECOWAS Authority also said its doors remain open for more engagements with the three countries and thus requested its member states to:…

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after Tanzania He had left Nigeria for the East African country to participate in the Africa Heads of State Energy Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Two days later, the presidential aircraft touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at approximately 7:40 PM. He was received by top government officials including the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle; National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila among others. The two-day summit is being hosted by the government of Tanzania, the African Union, the African Development Bank…