$3.3bn Total’s Egina FPSO Departs to Offshore Field in Few Weeks Crude oil price drops as Saudi, Russian output rises NCDMB audits remittances to $200m local content fund Ejiofor Alike in Lagos and Chineme Okafor in Abuja with agency reports The $3.3 billion Floating Production Storage Offloading
(FPSO) unit for the 200,000 barrels per day capacity Egina Deepwater oilfield, which arrived in Lagos in January this year from South Korea, will finally depart to the Egina
oilfield in the coming weeks, THISDAY has learnt. This is coming as oil prices fell yesterday as supplies from Saudi Arabia and Russia rose, while economic growth
stumbled in Asia amid an escalating trade dispute with the United States. The Deputy Managing Director in charge of Deep Water at Total Exploration
and Production Nigeria, Mr. Ahmadu-Kida Musa, said yesterday in Abuja at the 2018 edition of the Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition (NOG) that the
Egina field would account for 10 per cent of Nigeria’s crude oil production. Musa explained that the Continued on page 6
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Commotion as Police Officers Protest Unpaid Allowance in Maiduguri Police: It’s not correct, they were making enquiries Presidency summons IG An unfortunate and ugly epitaph of APC govt, says PDP Senator Iroegbu, Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri There was commotion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital yesterday as riot police
officers took to the street to protest the non-payment of their six-month allowance. It was learnt that the officers were posted to the state in January to strengthen security of the troubled state, which
has been battling Boko Haram insurgency for about a decade. The officers, who were fully armed, marched in their hundreds on the Borno State Police Headquarters located on the major highway in
the town, where they were, however, prevented from taking control of the complex. The police officers subsequently barricaded the highway, shooting sporadically into the air and scaring away
motorists. But the police authorities in Abuja denied the incidence yesterday, saying its personnel only went to the Borno State Command Headquarters to make enquiries about their
allowance. “It is not correct that police personnel protested in Maiduguri today (yesterday),’’ said Jimoh Moshood, the Continued on page 6
Save Nigeria from Avoidable Doom or Step Aside, Catholic Bishops Tell Buhari Say human lives now far less than cattle Plateau govt relaxes curfew Military arrests 11 more suspects Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Paul Obi in Abuja and Seriki Adinoyi in Jos The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently save Nigeria from avoidable doom or step aside as the country was sliding into anarchy. The bishops in a statement signed by the CBCN President, Most Rev. Augustine Akubeze, and Secretary, Most Rev.
Camillus Umoh, said the ongoing killings in the Middle Belt and other parts of the country, by suspected Fulani herdsmen were clear signposts to anarchy. The bishops spoke against the background of persistent carnage in the country, particularly, the recent massacre of over 100 persons in three local governments in Plateau State, where the government yesterday relaxed the dusk-to-dawn curfew it Continued on page 8
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LABOURER DESERVES HIS WAGE... Police personnel protesting non-payment of their special duty allowance in Maiduguri…yesterday