@MBuhari @NGRPresident today attended the# APC NEC meeting at the party headquarters in Abuja
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Thursday, 24 March 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari has been speaking on the violence and killings that characterised the Rivers State legislative re-run elections.
In a series of tweets, the president condemned electoral violence and called on law enforcement agencies to deal with the perpetrators of the violence, not minding party affiliations.
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"I have given the security services clear directives to deal decisively with all agents of violence, regardless of party affiliation." ~ PMB
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"The violence in Rivers, and the tragic killings of Youth Corper Samuel Okonta and other victims, are barbaric & unacceptable." ~ @MBuhari
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"My condolences to the families of all who lost their lives during the elections in Rivers at the weekend." ~ President @MBuhari 1/
Two more of the 100 Boko Haram kingpins declared wanted by the Army have been arrested by men of the Nigeria Police Force in Taraba State.
Taraba State Commissioner of Police, Shaba Alkari identified the arrested terrorists as Ali Abdu and Abdulmumuni Abdulahi, both indigenes of Yobe State.
He told newsmen that the two insurgents were arrested in separate locations through intelligence gathering.
Shaba said that one of the suspects, Ali Audu was arrested at Tela town in Gasol Local Government Area of Taraba State on April 22, 2016 while the other, Abdulmumuni Abdulahi was nabbed at Bali town in Bali Local Government Area of the state on the 5th of March 2016.
He disclosed that Abdulahi had settled in Bali as a suya (barbecued meat) seller.
He also said that it was only at the Police Headquarters in Jalingo that the identities of the men as wanted terrorists were revealed.
"We arrested them while on surveillance through interagency and tip off from our informants, we never new they were on the wanted list of the Boko Harm members."
According to the Police Commissioner, the terrorists have been handed over to the Nigerian Army.
A housewife, Mrs Mercy Abuah was on Thursday, arraigned before a Grade 1 Area Court in Aso Pada, Mararaba, Nasarawa State on a four-count charge of intentional insult, resisting arrest, intimidation and assault.
According to the Prosecutor, Cpl Friday Adaji, the complainant, Inspector Fabiyi Segun, a police officer attached to Aso Police Station was standing in front of the station on March 13, at about 4.30 p.m when the accused who was passing by spat on him.
“ When the complainant asked why she did that, the defendant insulted him and told him that he should order for her arrest.
“ While talking to her, she then held him by the neck of his shirt and tried to strangle him,” the prosecutor alleged.
Adaji also said that the defendant tore a police officer's uniform while resisting arrest.
He said that the offences contravened Sections 399, 171, 265 and 397 of the Penal Code.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded in police custody by the presiding officer, Mr Albert Maga, till March 30 to enable the prosecutor to bring his witnesses.
Hisbah Guards in Jigawa State have seized 111 cartons of beer in Birninkudu Local Government Area of the state.
The Commandant of Jigawa State Hisbah Command, Malam Aliyu Sa’idu disclosed this to newsmen in Dutse the state capital on Thursday.
He said that Hisbah operatives intercepted a Peugeot Boxer van carrying the beer suspected to have been smuggled in from Bauchi in Babaldu town on March 10.
Sa'idu recalled that the guards had seized 274 empty cartons of beer at Gidan-Dogo on Hakimi Street, in Dutse Local Government Area on Feb. 27.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016
The leadership of trade unions in the oil sector had a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
Here is what National President of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, Igwe Achese told State House correspondents after the meeting.
“We had a successful meeting, quite interesting in terms of the emotional attachment of Mr. President on the issue of oil and gas sector and the challenges we are facing.
“We tabled the issue of fuel scarcity, the quick passage of the PIB and to see how the sector will bounce back economically.
“Clearly, we talked more on corruption in the oil and gas sector, product allocations. Mr. President assured us that NUPENG and PENGASSAN (Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria) will continue to be part of the restructuring he will make, and ensure scarcity is reversed.”
The long queues at petrol stations across the country are not about to disappear, going by the outcome of Wednesday's meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of trade unions in the oil sector in Abuja.
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu told State House correspondents after the meeting that government is working hard to make the products available as well as ensure peace and harmony in the oil sector.
“And let’s be honest; for the five, six months we have been here, NNPC has moved from a 50 per cent importer of products to basically a 100 per cent importer. And the 445 barrels that allocated cover between 50 and 55 per cent importation.
“So, it’s quite frankly sheer magic that we even have the amount of products at the stations. We are looking to see how to get foreign exchange input. The President and I discussed extensively on how to get more crude directed at importation.
“The President will rather have less crude but have individuals in the society suffer less with inconveniences than have more crude and have them continue to suffer. So, we are going to put a new model to enable us increase the pace and get majors as part of the crew of those to bring in more products, so NNPC can go back to its capacity and the majors will take over the balance of importation.
“I think if we do that although I don’t want to put a time frame, I will expect that over the next two months. Of course, you are aware the DSAP programme begins in April so over the next two months we should see a complete elimination of this.
“Our strategy is that whatever is produced in the refineries will not go for sale, we are going to keep it in strategic reserve.
“Because the key problem here is that there is no reserve; anytime there is a gap in supply it goes off.”
He explained that government has dedicated the next few months to shoring up the nation's strategic reserve with whatever is produced by the refineries.
“So that we can pile up reserves and push up the reserves in the nation. Believe me, this is giving me and my team sleepless nights and we are working on it and we are committed to making this go away. Nigerians should please bear with us.
“The meeting with the President was basically to review some concerns. He is trying to find solutions and share thoughts.
“As you know, the President has too many constituencies; first will be politics, second, army and the third, the oil industry. So, matters of this nature touch his heart. And this is the first opportunity that the unions have had to spend time with him as a father.
“So we shared thoughts, areas of concerns and some potential solution and agreed to work together.
“I will probably highlight a few areas. The PIB, the union wants us to work harder and try to get the PIB passed soon. They are worried about the fuel scarcity and want to finally resolve this issue. They are worried about the refineries and are thankful we didn’t sell the refineries without looking to work with them to see how to make the refineries work.
“They are worried about the utilisation of depots and how best to do that, they are worried about all kinds of issues plaguing the oil industry.
“They are worried about job loss in the sector arising from the position of majors, who feel the economy is giving rough ends of the sticks and then try to whittle down staff. And so we are going to be working with the oil majors to ensure that we do not experience the kind of job loss that we are hearing has the potential to occur in the sector.
“A lot of these problems that are on the table were quite frankly there when we came and we are doing the best our to work on them. But we are looking to collaborate, those were the assurances.”
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