01/26/18
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President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to invest the income accruing to the country from rising oil prices in the international market into infrastructure development.

He made this known on Friday when he received a delegation from Eni, led by the Chief Upstream Officer, Mr Antonio Vella, at the state house in Abuja, a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said.

He said extra funds outside the provision of year 2018 budget “will be deployed to infrastructure projects like roads, rail, and power, for the good of our people, and for the development of the country.”

The provisions of the 2018 budget had been predicated on $45 per barrel by the Executive, and the Senate had adjusted it to $47 per barrel. Oil prices have, however, risen to $70 per barrel, this week.

President Buhari also appreciated Eni for its upcoming investments in the oil industry, which included rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery, and the building of a new one.

“In my first coming, all our refineries were working. Port Harcourt used to refine 60,000 barrels per day, and it was later upgraded to 100,000 barrels. Kaduna and Warri were also working optimally, and we used to satisfy the demand of the local market. We equally exported 100,000 barrels of refined petrol. Now, no refinery is performing up to 50%. It is a disgraceful thing,” the President said.

In response, leader of the Eni delegation, Mr Antonio Vella, said his organisation has presented a technical proposal to the NNPC to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery, and also done a feasibility study on a new refinery of up to 150,000 barrels per day capacity.

“Site selection has been completed, and 50 new graduates have already arrived in Italy for a training that will last seven months.

“There are other upstream initiatives, and a deep water project, with estimated expenditure of $13 billion,” Vella disclosed.


The oil company also said it had plans to double power generation capacity from its plant in Delta State from its present 500 MW to 1,000 MW, spending $750 million in the process.
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Sen. Rabi’u Kwankwaso

The Kano State Police Command, has advised Sen. Rabi’u Kwankwaso to suspend his proposed visit to Kano State on Jan. 30.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Rabiu Yusuf, gave the advice, while briefing newsmen in Kano, on Friday.
He said, the advice was necessary in view of the tension generated by the planned visit, among the people of the state.
According toYusuf, “There is no doubt, the Senator as a citizen of this country has the constitutional right of association, assembly, and above all, movement.
“However, credible Information at the disposal of the command reveals that the proposed visit has generated palpable fears in the minds of the people of Kano State,’’ he said.
He said, there was apprehension among the general populace, including the tendency to hijack the visit by some disgruntled elements and miscreants.
He hinted on the urgent need by the police command to ensure that peace prevailed in the state.
“Therefore, any action or inaction by any person or group of persons that may jeopardize the relative peace the state is currently enjoying must be averted.
“It is the advice of the command that such a visit should be shelved by Sen Rabi’u Kwankwaso, until the tension generated by the planned visit is doused,’’ he reiterated.
He assured that, the command would provide a level playing ground for all politicians, to carry out their political activities, without fear of molestation or intimidation.
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Deji Tinubu

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has cancelled the 3-day strategic retreat for cabinet members and directors of ministries, holding in Epe, East of the state.
The retreat which began on Thursday was scheduled to end Saturday evening.
But the governor announced to the grieving   participants today that the retreat could no longer go on following the shocking death of Deji Tinubu, his special adviser on commerce and industry.
Deji Tinubu died Thursday night during a five-aside novelty match at the venue of the retreat in Epe.
The Government in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan expressed “shock and disbelief’ over the sudden death of Mr. Tinubu and has reached out to his immediate family to commiserate on this huge loss to the family and the citizens of Lagos State.
“We are still in shock. All of us at the State Executive Council are in disbelief. He was a good and committed patriot who brought his passion to his job. He was a gentleman who maintained excellent team spirit. We shall miss him,” he said.
Bamigbetan said the late soccer fan slumped while playing five aside match with fellow participants at the ongoing retreat of members of the state executive council and permanent secretaries at the Jubilee Chalets, Epe. Doctors and nurses rushed to give him first aid and he was immediately taken to the General Hospital, Epe where he was confirmed dead.
An autopsy is expected to b​​e carried out while burial arrangements will be announced by the family.
The late Deji Tinubu was the son of late Kafaru Tinubu, one of Nigeria’s foremost police officers. He is survived by an aged mother, Bintu Tinubu and wife, Yemisi.
Tinubu was sworn in as Special Adviser on Sports and Chairman of the State’s Sports Commission on October 19, 2015.
He was recently moved to take up his new portfolio.
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Senate frowns at N300 per day meal for prisoners
The senate has condemned in strong terms, the N300 budget to feed prisoners each day, saying that the amount was too paltry to feed any human being.
The Senate’s Committee on Interior, during the 2018 budget defense of the Interior Ministry, said that it was grossly unfair for N100 to be budget per meal for prisoners.
Chairman of the committee, Sen. Andy Uba said that prisoners were also human beings who must be treated as such adding that part of the role of prisons was to reform.
He said that reformation could not be achieved when the prisoners are hungry and malnourished adding that the revelation of the budget goes a long way to explain why Nigerian prisoners always looked malnourished.
Earlier the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Ahmed Ja’afaru told lawmakers that N17 billion was allocated annually for feeding of prisoners.
He said that the amount was shared among the 244 prisons in Nigeria according to their population adding that N300 goes for the meal while 150 is budgeted for the cooking of each prisoners food per day.
Reacting to the breakdown, a member of the committee expressed disgust at the allocation stressing that he had taken up the issue so many times in the past.
He said that “the treatment given to the prison inmates “would make them gradually become a menace” when they are eventually released into the society.
“In 2015, I told the former CG about this because I over see also the human rights and we go to prisons and we see these things ourselves. I raised this issue of prison food ration. It is a serious issue that I think if you get it right; it would help a whole lot of things.
“450 for one day? For an adult? Mr. Chairman, this is outrageous. This is unacceptable, unthinkable and unheard of, this committee will not be a party to this kind of budget.
It is totally embarrassing that adults that you send to the prison, they have 300 meals. Is it for a baby?
“I feel that we are getting it wrong. That is part of the problem we are having in the country. You send people to go and be reformed, they come out hardened and they become a menace t our society.”
He called on the Committee chairman to take it up with other committees of the senate as well as relevant agencies to ensure that the budget improves.
Utazi said that for a long time prisoners had been surviving on the benevolence of philanthropic organisations and NGOs.
He proposed that the budget be totally reviewed to reflect N500 per meal for each prisoner and N1,500 per day.
Chairman of the Committee, Andy Uba therefore asked the interior ministry and the prison comptroller to submit all relevant budget document for the committee to  begin work.
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A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital Friday killing at least 41 people, in the country’s worst blaze for 15 years.
More than 80 others were hurt in the fire, which comes just weeks before thousands of athletes and foreign visitors are expected in the country for the Winter Olympics.
Videos posted on social media showed a patient hanging on to a rope dangling from a helicopter above the hospital in Miryang, in the far south, and another crawling out of a window to climb down a ladder.
The six-storey structure housed a nursing home as well as the hospital.
The death toll rose rapidly throughout the morning, as those initially pulled from the blaze succumbed to their injuries.
By lunchtime, it had hit 41, according to the presidential Blue House.
“Two nurses said they had seen fire suddenly erupting in the emergency room,” said fire chief Choi Man-Woo.
All the patients had been brought out, he said, adding that evacuating 15 sick people from the intensive care unit on the third floor took longer as firefighters had to wait for medical staff to supervise the process.
All those who died were in the hospital, he said.
“Many victims were from the first and second floors of the hospital… some died on their way to another hospital,” he said.
Video footage and pictures showed the building engulfed by thick, dark smoke and surrounded by multiple fire trucks.
Survivors were brought out wrapped in blankets, and firefighters picked their way through the blackened shell of the building after the blaze was extinguished.
Around 200 people were in the Sejong Hospital when the fire erupted, police said.
Jang Yeong-Jae, a surviving patient, said he was on the second floor when nurses screamed “Fire!” in the hallway and urged people to leave through the emergency exits.
“But when I opened the exit door, the whole stairway was filled with dark smoke and I couldn’t see a thing,” he told Seoul’s major daily JoongAng Ilbo.
“Everybody was running around in panic, falling over and screaming as smoke filled the rooms,” he was quoted as saying. Jang tore open window screens and escaped on a ladder erected by firefighters.
“There were so many aged patients on other floors… I wonder if they escaped safely,” JoongAng quoted Jang’s wife as saying.
South Korean President Moon Jae-In called an emergency meeting with advisers, and demanded an immediate probe into the cause of the blaze.
AFP/LR News
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Some armed robbers on Thursday unleashed terror on residents of four streets in the Mowe, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Latest Reality Metro learnt that the men looted homes and tortured residents, as they operated unfettered for over three hours on Olanipekun Omowunmi, Olajide, Moshalashi and Olopomeji streets.

Our correspondent learnt that the men went away with a Toyota Corolla, television sets, phones, and hundreds of thousands of naira.

During a visit to the community, our correspondent observed that the hoodlums broke into most of the houses after patiently breaking down the burglar-proof bars with hammers.

A driver in a paint company, Matthew Otuada, who lives on Olanipekun Omowunmi Street, said the assailants entered his house around 1.03am.

He noted that the men went away with three phones, a television set and N20,000.

He said, “Around 1.03am, I observed some strange movements in the compound and I told my wife there was a problem. We both went out to see what was happening. Immediately we opened the gate, we saw some youths talking and I shouted, ‘So, you are the ones disturbing us?’

“One of them said, ‘Shoot him, get him’. I realised they were robbers and ran into my house while raising the alarm to alert my neighbours. They fired a shot, but I was not hit. They chased me and my wife into the house.

“As I got in, I went inside the bedroom and hid. I was listening to their conversation with my wife, 
who was in the living room, as they shouted at her, demanding money. My wife said there was no money and called their bluff.

“After they left, I asked her what happened and she said they took away all the phones in the house. 
They spent about two hours in the compound.  If I had assistance I would have fought them to the end. I am a Urhobo man and if my son did not take away the cutlass in the house, I would have withstood them. I wouldn’t have killed anyone, but I would have, at least, chopped off an arm.”

Matthew’s wife, Endurance, said she argued with the robbers because she believed that they had only wooden toy guns and fireworks.

“I dared them to shoot me. One of them started removing the plasma television from the wall and I screamed, ‘Thief, thief’. They took away the television, two phones and the N20,000 my husband kept on the shelf,” she added.

Another resident, Mrs. Regina Sule, said she was sleeping when she heard a noise.

She said her daughter informed her of the presence of the robbers and she (Regina) suggested they pray.

“I didn’t know they had surrounded my house already. They beamed a torch on the parlour and ordered we open the door. I shouted Jesus and ran with my children into the bedroom.

“We thought there was no way they could break the burglar-proof bars. But within seconds, the burglar-proof bars fell to their hammers. They entered the house and demanded our valuables. They took away my tablet phone, my daughter’s phone and my husband’s phone. They ransacked everywhere, looking for money. They tried to remove the generator from the cage, but when it was difficult, they dropped the idea,” she said.

Her husband, Ojonofu, added that the robbers also stole the television in the house and some money.

Another resident, Kolawole Ayodeji, said the robbers beat him up after collecting N56,000 from him.

“They took four phones, my driving licence, a cable TV decoder, and an Automated Teller Machine card. They took the key to my company’s brand new car, after beating me to a pulp. They wanted to take the car away and I handed over a bunch of keys to the house gate to them. They, however, couldn’t open the gate and threw the car key away in frustration,” he added.

But Mr. Teslim Oladipo, an electrical engineer on Olajide Street was not lucky as the robbers made away with his Toyota Corolla after battering him.

Oladipo said the hoodlums entered his compound around 2.30am, adding that they spent about 45 minutes before leaving.

“My children were not around. I told my wife that robbers were around and we ran into the innermost part of the house, hoping they would not break in. From where we were, we shouted for help, but nobody responded.

“They forced their way in after stretching the burglar-proof bars. They broke down the door to the room where we were hiding. They drew me to the sitting room and asked me to open my wardrobe.  They ransacked everywhere, looking for money.

“They covered my face with clothes, stamped on me, and used the butt of their gun to hit my head. They said they would not leave without any money. They took away new clothes in my ward robe, N70,000, three phones, and my Toyota Corolla. My wife and I are visibly shaken by this,” he said.

 On Moshalashi Street, the robbers were said to have pointed a gun at a woman and her baby and ordered that she released all the valuables in the house to them.

The woman was reported to have parted with an undisclosed sum of money, phones, among other property.

A woman, however, told our correspondent that the robbers could not enter her house because her husband held a cutlass.

“As they tried to break the burglar-proof window bars, my husband dared them to come in. He said he would cut off their heads. They left us alone,” she said.

Latest Reality Metro observed that many of the streets did not have security guards, a situation which exposed them to recurring robbery attacks.

Our correspondent, who visited the Mowe Police Station where some of the residents reported the case, observed as they lamented their fate and urged the police to find the robbers.

It was learnt that some of the assailants had already been identified by some residents, who had given police information on their hideouts.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, adding that two of the suspects had been arrested.

He said, “We recovered arms and ammunition from them. New clothes, a stolen car, among other items, were also recovered from them.”

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Deji Tinubu


The Special Adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Commerce, Deji Tinubu, is dead.

It was gathered that Deji, who was the former Chairman of Lagos State Sports Commission, died late on Thursday during a novelty match in the Epe area of Lagos State.

Lagos State Executive members and other top government functionaries are in Epe for a retreat.

It was gathered that Tinubu slumped in the field and was confirmed dead at a hospital in Epe.