Buhari Seeks Better Deal from OPEC for Nigeria Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday urged the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to consider the burden of Nigeria with a large number
of poor people when sharing oil production cuts. He also described the decision of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) to site the headquarters of the African Energy Investment
Corporation in Abuja as a welcome development. The president, while hosting the Secretary General of the APPO, Mr. Omar Farouk, a Nigerian, at the State House, Abuja, demanded a better deal from OPEC.
Buhari, in a statement by presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, also spoke on challenges confronting Nigeria with its large population and huge infrastructure deficit. He urged the OPEC to put into consideration the burden
of Nigeria with “200 million poor people with severe deficit in infrastructure when sharing oil production cuts.” Nigeria had earlier called on OPEC to reconsider its production quotas under the crude output cut agreement
reached by the cartel and its allies. The federal government had submitted its request to OPEC for consideration ahead of full ministerial meetings Continued on page 10
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North-east Govs Demand Power to Prosecute Suspected Insurgents Seek law amendment for AGF to cede prosecutorial right Call for action to stem rape, youth unemployment Insecurity has made North the worst place to live in Nigeria, says Sultan DHQ foresees end to banditry Kingsley Nwezeh, Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja, Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri and Daji Sani in Yola Northern leaders yesterday upped the ante in their quest for an end to the insecurity that has become rife in the region with a call for more measures to combat terrorism, banditry and kidnapping.
The issue of security also dominated talks between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Algerian President's Special Envoy, Mr Sabri Boukadoum, yesterday in Abuja, with the president saying that there can't be development in an insecure country. At a meeting in Yola, the AdContinued on page 9
NERC: We Capped Estimated Billing to Protect Power Consumers
FG hands over Afam Power Plant to Transcorp Ndubuisi Francis, Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Peter Uzoho in Lagos The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) yesterday stated that the federal government
introduced the capping order on estimated billing for unmetered customers to ensure fairness and parity with their metered counterparts. Commissioner in charge Continued on page 10
HISTORIC IFE TERRACOTTA RETURNS HOME... L-R: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama; the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Nigeria, Mr. Harry van Dijk, at the handover of the repatriated Ife terracotta by Onyeama to Mohammed, in Abuja... yesterday
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