WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY 2022

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Kyari: NNPC Determined to Compete with Private Sector Players in Oil Industry Transition to CAMA company will turn national oil company into partner of choice for investors, Kyari declares Oil industry under siege, Barkindo insists Nigeria loses 20% crude production to oil theft Daily, says Oando Boss Emmanuel Addeh and Peter Uzoho in Abuja There appears to be no going back

on the push by the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to contend fiercely for oil and gas assets in the country

as it evolves into a commercial entity in about two weeks from now. The Chief Executive of the national oil firm, Mallam Mele

Kyari, pointedly told heads of private oil companies yesterday that like them, the NNPC would henceforth go for the best and

juiciest assets in the industry. Speaking on the occasion of the ongoing 21st Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Conference and

Exhibition with the theme: “Funding the Nigerian Energy Mix for Continued on page 10

Oil Tumbles Nearly $12 in Biggest Drop Since March...Page 8 Wednesday 6 July, 2022 Vol 27. No 9948. Price: N250

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Atiku’s Impending Graduation at UK University Delaying Reconciliation with Wike... Page 49

Okowa: I Got Second Best Result in 1976 in WASC as Obi, Baba-Ahmed Move to Seal Ticket

Delta gov appeals to FG to resolve ASUU’s prolonged strike Cracks in universities’ union as UNIMAID medical lecturers pull out

Omon-Julius Onabu in Asaba and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

Delta State Governor and VicePresidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

in the 2023 elections, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, said the media buzz generated over his missing

West African School Certificate (WASC), was not a big deal but merely an attempt by some people

to play politics with practically everything, because he got the second best result in his WASC

in 1976. Continued on page 10

Few Dead, Two Injured as Bandits Attack Buhari's Convoy En Route Daura Incident is sad, unwelcome, says presidency Bandits kill assistant police commissioner in Katsina as gunmen hit Kuje prison Deji Elumoye in Abuja A few people died yesterday, while two others sustained minor injuries, when bandits attacked the advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers, ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Sallah trip to his hometown in Daura, Katsina State. The presidency has since described the dastardly act as a sad and unwelcome development. This is as bandits, again yesterday, ambushed and killed an Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP, Aminu Umar Dayi, in charge of Dutsinma Area Command in Katsina, following a fierce gun duel. Relatedly, suspected terrorists, last night attacked the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, but were repelled by security agents, who foiled their plan. In a release last night by presiContinued on page 10

DANGOTE CEMENT BAG OF GOODIES SEASON 3... L-R: Group Sales and Marketing Director, Dangote Cement Plc, Rabiu Umar; Group Managing Director/CEO, Michel Puchercos; National Sales Director, Funmi Sanni; Head of Lagos Office Federal Competition, Consumer Protection Commission, Susie Onwuka, and Representative of the Director General National Lottery Regulatory Commission /Deputy Director Licencing and Regulatory, PHOTO: SUNDAY ADIGUN Obi Iregbu; at the Dangote Cement Plc’s media launch of Bag of Goodies Season 3 Consumer Promotion in Lagos ... yesterday

In Grave Blow to Boris Johnson, Two UK Ministers Resign... Page 10


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