APC Apologises to Nigerians over Budget Feud Knocks Abdulmumuni for refusing to comply with gag order
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accepted responsibility for failing to nip in the bud the
embarrassing face-off between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara and a member of the party and former Chairman of the Appropriation Committee,
Hon. Jubrin Abdumumini, over the 2016 budget. Speaking during a session on the proposals for amendments to the Electoral Act organised by the PGF, the
Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Segun Oni, apologised on behalf of the party leadership for the lapses in handling the intra-party feuds and promised that steps
were being taken to ensure frequent interface with its lawmakers. The co-chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) legislative
programme and the Kastina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, also advised the APC National Working Committee Continued on page 8
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Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
TINUBU’S SON GETS HITCHED
L-R: Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; wife of the Oni of Ife; the couple, Seyi Tinubu and his wife, Layal; Oni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II; Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode; and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, at the wedding of his son at the palace of the Oba of Lagos, held in Lagos… yesterday
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked all those predicting doom for the party to have a rethink and come to join the party Continued on page 6
NNPC Considers Crude Importation from Chad, Niger Republic for Kaduna Refinery
OPEC president forecasts oil price recovery in Q4 Suspected militants kill three soldiers, seize military ammunition in Bayelsa Seriake appoints ex-militant to battle vandalism Ejiofor Alike in Abuja and Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa
As part of the efforts to address frequent disruptions to the supply of crude oil to the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) as a result of the Niger Delta militancy, the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is considering importing crude oil from Chad and Niger Republic, investigations by THISDAY have revealed. This is coming as the
President of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Qatar’s Energy Minister, Mohammed Al Sada, has stated that oil prices would rebound during the third and fourth quarters
of 2016. NNPC, it was learnt, is also considering the option of using railway transportation to move crude from the Niger Delta to the refinery complex. A top official of the NNPC,
who spoke to THISDAY on the condition of anonymity, disclosed yesterday that the corporation might refit the Kaduna refinery to be able to process Nigerien and Chadian crude grades,
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following the incessant attacks on the pipelines that feed the plant with Nigerian Bonny Light crude. According to him, the refinery was originally designed to process Nigerian crude and foreign heavy crude at the ratio of about 70:30. Continued on page 6
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