President Muhammadu Buhari, has flagged-off the construction of the 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline contract awarded at a cost of US$2.592 billion, an equivalent of N1 trillion. The Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) contract for the project was awarded to Messrs. Oilserv Plc/China First Highway Engineering Company (Oilserv/CFHEC Consortium) for the... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has formally flagged off the construction of the $2.8 billion Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project, said to be the largest of its kind in the nation. The President who performed the ceremony virtually from the State House on Tuesday, called on governors of states on the... Read more
A prosecution witness, Felix Adolije Monday, narrated his ordeal at a Federal High Court in Abuja, on how soldiers attached to mount roadblocks along Ibi town in Taraba State, shot at their operational vehicle on their way back to Abuja. Adolije, who mounted the witness box in the ongoing... Read more
The South East Governors, in conjunction with Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have agreed to set up a driving force for the development of Igbo land known as Alaigbo Stabilization Fund. “The Fund is intended to develop Igbo land to the status of Catalonia in Spain and Bavaria in Germany,” Chief Emeka... Read more
The Federal Government’s aspiration to boost domestic utilisation of gas in Nigeria will receive a boost tomorrow as President Muhammadu Buhari performs the Flag-off of the construction of the 40-inch x 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project. The project, expected to be completed within a 24-month timeline, is a... Read more
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has condemned plans by Nigeria’s Presidency to flag off a gas pipeline worth $2.8 billion to service the northern part of Nigeria on Wednesday. Kanu accused the current Muhammadu Buhari administration of having more interest at developing... Read more
The Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated a 150-bed fully equipped isolation facility with medical equipment worth millions of Naira to the Lagos State Government, to provide support in the fight against the virus within the state. Speaking at the commissioning of the Yaba Isolation centre,... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) has completed the final phase of its 20km domestic gas pipeline expansion project in Abia State, connecting Agbor Hill, Osisioma and Araria industrial zones. The project has also enabled the supply of pipeline gas to Ariaria Market Energy Solutions Limited, the Independent... Read more
The Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated a 150-bed fully equipped isolation facility with medical equipment worth millions of Naira to the Lagos State Government, to provide support in the fight against the virus within the state. Speaking at the commissioning of the Yaba Isolation centre,... Read more
Berkley Jones Ike first appeared on the Nigerian music scene in the mid-1960s, as the drummer in the Port Harcourt-based teen pop group The Figures. At the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970, he signed on as lead guitarist in the upstart rock n’ soul band The... Read more