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Aug72018 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

BREAKING: Osinbajo Sacks DSS Boss, Lawal Daura

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The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has directed the termination of the appointment of the Director-General, State Security Service (SSS), Lawal Musa Daura, Channels Television is reporting. The termination of appointment according to a statement signed on Tuesday by Senior Special Assistant to Osinbajo on Media and Publicity is with immediate effect. Daura has since been directed to hand over to the most senior officer of the State Security Service until further notice. Daura is however in a closed-door meeting with the Acting President, currently holding at the presidential villa in Abuja. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris is also in the closed-door meeting. The termination of Daura’s appointment comes few hours after security officials stormed the p

Aug72017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

Southern Leaders Vow To Press On For Nigeria Restructuring, Invite North To Join The Renegotiation Table

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Leaders of the Southern geopolitical zone on Sunday vowed to press on with their demand for the restructuring of the country saying that the country was approaching a terminal crisis from which it cannot recover unless it is restructured along the paths of the 1963 Constitution. This came just as they invited their northern counterparts to join the renegotiation table for Nigeria to be restructure, even as Arewa and Ndigbo youths met in Kano over the October 1st quit notice slammed on Igbos by Northern youths. The southern leader noted that the National Assembly’s rejection of the proposal for devolution was against popular demand, even as they berated security agencies for threatening to deal with agitators of the country’s restructuring describing it as empty and ineffective

Aug72017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

When Oil Sold Above $100, Jonathan’s Govt Owes Debts All Over But With Lean Funds, Buhari Is Doing Well – Osinbajo

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Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is currently faring better in terms of infrastructural development of the country than previous administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan even when crude oil sold over $100 per barrel in the international market at that time. Osinbajo stated this on Sunday at the Presidential Villa while playing host to Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, Houston, US-based Nigerian doctor who successfully led a medical team that operated on a foetus, winning US and global acclaim for the feat. According to the Acting President, availability of resources is not the issue, but it is all about the management of what is available. “When we were making over a $100 per barrel, we were owing oil JVC cash cal

Aug12017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

Tension As Militants Regroup In N’Delta, Threaten Bombing From September 31 (+Video)

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Palpable tension has enveloped the Niger Delta region as a video release few days ago shows militants are regrouping in their hundreds to launch attack on oil installations in the region over alleged failure of the Federal Government to keep to its own side of the ceasefire bargain secured from militant groups, BigPen Online can report. This followed a threat by a militant group, the Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), which threatened to resume attacks on oil facilities on September 31, 2017. The group, in a statement Monday by its spokesman, Mr. Izon Ebi, also urged PANDEF to stop all talks with the federal government. The statement read: “We have resolved and are more determined to use all necessary means to take back our heritage by stopping all oil and gas explora

Jul272017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

Osinbajo In Port Harcourt To Inaugurates $1.5billion Indorama Fertilizer Plant

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A new world-class fertilizer plant built by Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Limited, will be inaugurated today (Thursday) by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to a statement by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Office of the Vice President, the plant with production capacity for 1.5 million Metric Tons of Urea fertilizer is considered the world’s largest single-train Urea plant. Eleme Petrochemicals Company Ltd, now Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Limited was privatized in 2006 after the sale of Federal Government’s 75 percent shares to a core investor through a competitive bidding process. The Plant has a production capacity of 4000 metric tons (MT) of nitrogenous fert

Jul262017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

Osinbajo Swear In New Two Ministers

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Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has sworn in the two Minister screened and confirmed by Senate in April. The Minister, Stephen Ocheni and Suleiman Hassan, representing Kogi and Gombe states respectively in the Federal Executive Council, FEC were nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari over some month ago. The information on the inauguration of the ministers was provided by three presidential spokespersons, Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. “The Federal Government has also not approved the disbursement of 850 million dollars in the 2017 budget for payment of the so-called external contract debt. “We are therefore using this medium to inform Nigerians and foreigners alike to disregard such letters,” he said. The minister

Jul242017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

IOCs’ Relocation: IYC Accuses Osinbajo Of Paying Lip Service, Issued 90-days Ultimatum For Presidential Directives To Be Enforce

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Foremost Ijaw Youths Council On Monday accused Acting President Yemi Osinbajo of paying lip service to the agitation by the people of Niger Delta region to have the headquarters of the International Oil Companies, IOCs operating in the region relocated to their area of operations. Factional President of IYC, Oweilaemi Rolland Pereotubor, a lawyer noted that multinational oil companies have not complied with the presidential directive handed down by the Acting President, Osinbajo in one of its visits to the Niger Delta region till date "because there is no visible attempts by the presidency to enforce the order.” According to Pereotubor, ”Perhaps, Prof. Osinbajo was only trying to play to the gallery politically.” “We saw this in the parliamentary rascality exhibited by Mr. Fe

Jul112017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

Ahead Of FEC, Osinbajo Meets Buhari In London

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Ahead of Federal Executive Council meeting schedule for Wednesday, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo Tuesday afternoon left Abuja for London to meet with ailing President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, who has been on medical vacation in London in the last 60 days, it was learnt had asked Osinbajo to see him ahead of Wednesday meeting. Senior Media Aide to the Acting President, Laolu Akande, confirmed this on his Twitter handle @akandeoj. He however said Mr. Osinbajo will return to Abuja after the meeting, apparently to be able to preside over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. “AgP Osinbajo meeting with President Buhari in London today, and returning to Abuja immediately afterwards,” Akande tweeted. BigPen Online recalls that Mr. Buhari returned to the U

Jul62017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

Keyamo, Oke, Osinbajo’s Brother, 27 Others Become SAN

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The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee on Thursday awarded Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, the rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria after he was denied eight previous times. Twenty-nine others, including the Alliance for Democracy’s candidate in the last governorship election in Ondo State, and a former National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olusola Oke was also among the the 30 successful candidates announced on Thursday. Also a brother to the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Akinlolu Osinbajo, who is a former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in Ogun State; a former Director-General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, Prof. Adebambo Adewepo, and the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof. Adedeji A

Jul62017 by Bigpenngr, RotterdamNo Comments

BREAKING! With Or Without Senate, Buhari, Osinbajo Declare Magu EFCC Chairman As Long As They Remain In Power

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Despite Senate persistent rejection of Ibrahim Magu's confirmation as substantive Chairman of the anti-graft agency, the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday declares that President Muhammadu Buhari has resolved to work with Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to stamp out endemic corruption in the country. Osinbajo, who spoke at the inauguration of the Kaduna office of the anti-graft agency on Thursday, said those who think that they were winning in fighting back against the government’s war on corruption should wake up. Represented by Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Osinbajo stated that so long as Buhari remained Nigeria’s President, Magu would continue to work as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes