Viral-Loaded

Buoyed by the return of the Forcados export terminal, the nation’s oil production has surpassed that of its rival, Angola, the latest data from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries has shown. Nigeria, which again lost its Africa’s top oil producer status to Angola in January after it regained it in November last year, recorded the biggest increase in output among its peers in the OPEC last month. For nine months in 2016, Nigeria lagged behind its southern African counterpart in oil production on the back of the resurgence of militant attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta. OPEC, in its Monthly Oil Market Report for June 2017, which was released on Tuesday, put crude oil production from Nigeria at 1.640 million barrels per day in May, up from 1.404 million bpd in the previous month, based on direct communication. Production from Angola stood at 1.593 million bpd in May, down from the 1.651 million bpd it closed at last year. The r...

As the name stipulates, INEC in itself is an independent body. For this to be truly so, it means the commission should not depend on any arm of government for anything. The body should be able to exercise that autonomy and the process leading to the emergence of the chairman of the commission should be independent. The President of Nigeria should not be the one to appoint the INEC chairman. As humans, we are likely to listen to the dictates of the person that appointed us at some point. An INEC chairman is likely to have sympathy for the President that appointed him and when this happens, we are not practising true democracy. There should be an independent process that should lead to the emergence of the INEC chairman, maybe through the hierarchy within the system. For our democracy to be sustained, we need to truly separate the powers. If the legislature should depend on the executive arm for the release of statutory funds, things will definitely not work smoothly. ...

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced one Ibikunle Olusakin to seven years imprisonment for submitting fake documents while standing as surety to secure bail for one Emmanuel Nweke, who was charged with unlawful importation and possession of prohibited firearms. The police had charged Olusakin with five counts bordering on conspiracy, perversion of the course of justice, forgery and making false statements. The prosecuting counsel for the police, Goddy Osuyi, told the court that the police discovered that the documents submitted by Olusakin to secure bail for Nweke were fake after the accused had jumped bail and absconded. He said following Nweke’s disappearance, it took the joint efforts of the police, the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, to arrest Olusakin two years after. According to Osuyi, among the fake documents submitted by Olusakin to secure bail for Nweke we...

The Federal University Oye EKITI is among the 6 universities created by President Good luck Johnathan in the year 2011. The foundation of the school is of controversy as the school is being shared among 2 Local Government which caused problem. The Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the University seems to be deprived of some of their entitlements as staffs. There have being earlier cases of warning strikes, But the school authority seems not to take required measures to listen to the cry of the staffs. The Union embarked on another strike in the last 2 weeks. But the academic staffs (Lecturers) of the school continued academic activities (Lecture).. Which made the Nasu Send a note of warning to them to stop all Academic work as they are expected to join them in the strike to enable effectiveness. But due to the refusal of the lectures to join them in the strike. The NASU made mobilization to the school on Wednesday 7th June 2017. The Angry staffs physically assaulted all t...

Swedish star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s future at Manchester United is in some doubt after he was listed as being released by the club on an official list published by the Premier League on Friday. The 35-year-old — who starred for United last season scoring 28 goals in 46 matches before a knee ligament injury ended his campaign prematurely — could still be retained by United should they decide to renew his contract which is up on June 30th. “Premier League clubs from the 2016/17 season have submitted the lists of players they will be keeping in their squads, and the ones they will be releasing,” read the EPL statement.

The Federal High Court in Lagos Thursday heard how several individuals and public officials shared in an alleged bribe of $115m paid by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, to compromise the 2015 general election. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) named the officials Thursday during the trial of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Dele Belgore before Justice Rilwan Aikawa. In two documents it tendered before the court, the anti-graft agency said the persons benefited from N450 million and N155, 220,000 out of the $115m (about N36 billion) Diezani cash. The disbursements, which the EFCC claimed were bribes, were contained in a document titled, “Security and Transportation per State”, and another one titled, “Kwara State”. According to the first document, the Resident Assistant Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in Kwara State at the time got N1 million cash, the Commissioner of Police (COP) in Kwara State at the time received N10m ...