The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it has grown its oil output to an average of 514,000 barrels per day (bpd) and developed additional capacity to produce more.
Mr Osagie Okunbor, the Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria disclosed the production data in the oil firm’s 2020 briefing notes made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Yenagoa.
According to the…
Mr Bayo Ojulari, the Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd., (SNEPCo) says collaboration amongst indigenous players in the energy sector will increase their local content participation.
Ojulari said this while speaking at the 12th Edition of annual PSRG–RICHARDSON Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Forum held virtually in Yenagoa on Wednesday.
The…
Fayez al-Serraj, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government, said on Wednesday he intended to hand over power by the end of October.
Al-Serraj, the head of the UN-recognised government of National Accord (GNA), said this in a televised speech.
“I declare my sincere intention to hand over the tasks of power to the coming executive authority in a time no later than…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bears responsibility for grave rights violations including crimes against humanity, UN investigators said on Wednesday.
In a 411-page report, the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela documented evidence of crimes aimed at quashing the opposition, including systematic and widespread imprisonment, disappearances, torture, sexual violence, and murder since 2014.
T…
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Wednesday signed the State Penal Code (Amendment) Law 2020, which provides stiff penalty for rapists.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the law provides surgical castration and removal of Fallopian tubes for male and female convicts respectively upon conviction of raping a child.
The principal law, the Penal Code Law No. 5 of Kaduna State 2017, was…
The former head of world athletics’ governing body, Lamine Diack, was convicted in France on Wednesday of corruption in a Russian doping scandal and sentenced to spend at least two years in jail.
Diack, 87, was found guilty of accepting bribes from athletes suspected of doping, to cover up test results and let them continue competing, including in the 2012 London Olympics.
The court also found…
The United Labour Congress (ULC) has reconciled with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Kaduna state, resolving to vigorously pursue workers welfare under one umbrella.
The state Chairman of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Suleiman and Chairman of the defunct ULC, Comrade Ephraim Jonah, disclosed this to newsmen after a joint state executive council reconciliation meeting, held at the Textile Labour House…
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday, says the State Government will support the emergence of a hub for cultural enterprises that will provide source of livelihood for the youth.
El-Rufai said a fully developed culture hub would serve as centre of innovation, encourage creativity and talent development, as well as boost the state Internally Generated Revenue.
The governor made the pledge when he…
The Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Ondo State Command, has said no fewer than 6 people died and 7 were injured in a road accident on the Akure-Ilesha expressway at Ilara-Mokin, in the state on Wednesday.
This was announced in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mrs Omotola Ogunbawo, in Akure.
Ogunbawo, who explained that…
Towards a peaceful governorship election in Edo
A News Analysis by Emmanuel Oloniruha, News Agency of Nigeria
Unarguably, peaceful and credible elections are essential tools for democracy to thrive.
Political analysts believe that peaceful and credible polls stimulate positively on the people, the economy, democracy and good governance.
They, however, identified the broad consequences of…
