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Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Vol. 1 No. 77
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Otedola, Shell begins contract award for $12bn bonga vessel construction ex-Lagos lOpens bids for world’s largest FPSO unit governor, dies at 87}5 S Adeola Yusuf
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hell has commenced the process for the award of contract for
the construction of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for its $12 billion Bonga South West Aparo development.
Shell’s General Manager for Deepwater Nigeria, Jerry Jackson, who said this in the official journal of the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
in Houston, Texas, reaffirmed that the Final Investments Decision (FID) on the field is expected before December 2014. Bonga is located in Oil Prospecting Licence 212 and Shell Nigeria Explo-
ration and Production Company (SNEPCO) operates the field on behalf of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under a production sharing contract, in
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Chibok: Protests spread to Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, C’River lBoko Haram claims responsibility, threatens to sell off abductees lObasanjo, Amosun’s wives lead women’s march lTinubu condemns abduction, faults president’s approach Appolonia Adeyemi, Kunle Olayeni, Wale Elegbede, Muritala Ayinla, Elijah Samuel, Ahmed Miringa, Clement James and Victoria Ewoh
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he campaign to free over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram about three weeks ago from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, took on a new ferocity yesterday as protests spread to more parts of Nigeria. The protests, which began last week in Abuja, have now spread to Lagos, Calabar, Borno, Akure and Abeokuta. After a prolonged silence, Boko Haram, which has been widely suspected of masterminding the abduction of the pupils during a dawn raid on their school also yesterday conC O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 3
L-R: Wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Bola; wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun; her husband, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and Iyalode of Yorubaland, Mrs. Alaba Lawson, during the march to demand the release of the abducted schoolgirls in Abeokuta...yesterday.
We won’t bow to terrorism, say Jonathan, Kenyatta Anule Emmanuel
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igeria and Kenya, wracked by a series of terrorist attacks that have claimed hundreds
of lives recently, yesterday sent a strong signal to the merchants of death that they would not be cowed by their activities. President Goodluck
Jonathan and his Kenyan counterpart, President Uhuru Kenyatta, assured their nations that the insurgency in their respective countries would not
deter them from pursuing programmes that would transform the lives of their citizens. The two leaders, who addressed a joint press
conference after holding bilateral talks at the State House, Abuja, said it was clear that the level of terrorist attacks being experiC O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2
lConfab committee proposes new revenue formula }55 lAnother delegate dies }55
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