NNPC Invites Process Licensors to Audit Refineries Targets 60 per cent capacity utilisation
Chineme Okafor in Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said yesterday that it would invite external licensors
to undertake process audits on its four refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna. It said that when the process audit is concluded, its importation of petroleum
products into the country would reduce and the capacity utilisation of the refineries increased to 60 per cent by the end of 2017. A statement by the Group
General Manager, Public Affairs of the corporation, Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja stated that its Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, disclosed this during a
courtesy call on him by the management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust Newspapers. Baru explained that the NNPC was keen on
ending petroleum products importation in a few years and that a concrete plan was on the ground to achieve this. Continued on page 8
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Presidency: How We Selected Beneficiaries of N5000 Stipend to Poorest Nigerians Tobi Soniyi in Abuja
BRASS FERTILIZER COMPANY MAKING STRIDES
Seated L-R: Chief Ben Okoye, Executive Vice Chairman, Brass Fertilizer & Petrochemical Company (BFPCL) and Mr. John Goodridge, Head of Marketing & Origination Europe, Africa & Russia, BP Oil International. Standing L-R: Gareth Hodder of White & Case LLP; Sanjay Patel of BFPCL; Mychael Obaseki, BP Nigeria; Tom Fox, BP London; Abhishank Jajur, Taylor-Dejongh; Rema Shrestha and Alex Moulsdale, both of BP London, at the official signing of the $6 billion methanol off take agreement between BFPCL and BP Oil International, held in London… recently
The Presidency yesterday said that it used the World Bank’s Community Based Targeting (CBT) model, established two years ago, to select the beneficiaries of its N5000 monthly stipends to the poorest Nigerians. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja said the CBT model of the World Bank had been used two years ago to identify most of the beneficiaries in the pilot states. He said the World Bank was also an active agent Continued on page 8
Buhari Pledges to Recover More Abducted Chibok Girls
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and Victor Ogunjein in Ado Ekiti
As the kidnapped Chibok Secondary School girls spend 1000 days in captivity, President Muhammadu Buhari has given further assurance that the federal government will spare no efforts to recover those still in captivity.
The president gave the assurance in a statement yesterday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, to commemorate the 1000th day of the girls’ abduction. Adesina said: "As the
country, nay, the world, today commemorates the 1,000th day of the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, President Muhammadu Buhari has recommitted the Federal Government to securing the
release of the youngsters kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents." "We are grateful to God that on this landmark day, we are not completely in the depths of despair, but buoyed with hope that our daughters
will yet re-join their families and loved ones. Three of them have been recovered by our diligent military, while the freedom of 21 others was secured through engagement with their captors. We are hopeful that many more
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will still return as soon as practicable," he quoted the president as saying. Adesina said Buhari reiterated his pledge, pronounced many times in the past, that government would not spare any efforts to reunite the girls with their Continued on page 8