NNPCL may begin importation of 110, 000 barrels of crude oil per day from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia to operate the Kaduna Refinery due to come on stream next year. Also, the Dangote, Bua and other refineries may be forced to import about 1.322 million barrels of crude oil per day amid oil production challenges in Nigeria, existing contracts on crude oil swap as well as other commercial issues. Currently, the Dangote Refinery, with 650, 000 barrels per day refining capacity, is relying on imported crude, while the Bua Refinery within the South South region would need about 200,000 barrels…
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Reason Why President Tinubu Banned Son from FEC Meeting Seyi Tinubu was banned from attending any meeting in the Villa including that of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, by his father, Bola Tinubu because he was involved in a fight with the Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the President, Fasasi Adeboyega, who stopped him from barging into a high level security briefing meeting Tinubu was having. Tinubu had announced during a Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting yesterday that Seyi and others not invited to FEC meetings should stay away. Informants in the Villa told me that Seyi took some foreigners…
Is there any connect between law and public opinion or judgments and public opinion? Before Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad’s (rtd) valedictory speech at the Supreme Court last Friday, the connect or disconnect between those two had begun to assume a life of its own. The presidential election judgment delivered by the Supreme Court the day before heightened concerted quests for the nexus or disjuncture between them. In the Dattijo valedictory, it would appear that the Learned Justice had deliberately set out to take the sail off the wind of views which divorced law from judgments and public opinion. In the…
Father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips in his 1901 book he entitled The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud discussed what in German is called Fehlleistungen. It is another name for faulty actions which mirror bits of unconscious mind leakages into conscious behaviour. This leakage, otherwise known as misspeak, according to him, prompts a speaker to say what is unintended…
There was this infamous Emperor of Rome by the name of Nero, who busied himself partying and merry making while the Empire he ruled was burning. There was a trending pictures of Governor Makinde and the G-5 meeting with the President in Abuja on Tuesday night and those pictures touched my consciousness to the sad story of Emperor Nero. By the time Governor Makinde was posing for those pictures in Abuja, Iwere-Ile, a town in Iwajowa Local Government of Oyo state was burning. In fact, it is safe to say that while Governor Makinde was posing for those pictures, there…
Each time I heard the rhetoric that”Education is free in Oyo state”, what always come to my mind is the phrase made popular by a former First Lady of the Federation, Patience Jonathan, ” there is God ooo”. Good enough, Governor Makinde always allude to the fact that he, as a young student enjoyed the Free Education. The question is, can he, in all honesty, compare the Free Education he personally enjoyed as a young pupil to the shambolic policy he has put in place now as Governor of Oyo state? How many of the Governor’s children, that of his…
I listened to Akeem Olatunji, erstwhile Public Relations Officer of the People’s Democratic Party on the program tagged “Ijoba Ibile”. Honestly, I pitied the gentleman who obviously struggled without success to defend the scandalous handling of the Local Government funds by Governor Seyi Makinde. As we speak, Olatunji is the candidate of the PDP in the Local Government Election slated for April, 2024. His approbation and reprobation in the attempt to justify the illegal meddlesomeness by the Governor in the reconstruction of the Akesan market without wanting to admit that the Governor actually engaged in illegal spending of Local Government…
Why do Nigerian public officials always fail to see the divide between the public and the private? Perhaps taking a cue from their parents, children of successive Nigerian presidents have also made this a pastime. A recent example is the reported cruising in Nigeria’s presidential jet by the president’s son, Mr. Seyi Tinubu. He had flown the aircraft last Sunday to attend polo games in Kano State. By convention, it is only the president of Nigeria, the First Lady, Vice-President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Justice of Nigeria, ex-presidents and a presidential delegation who are authorized…
Who is the man who today sits atop the presidency of Nigeria? What is his name? Who are his parents? Who are his childhood friends? What was his childhood like? What primary school did he attend? Where did he attend secondary school? Or, the university? Is he a criminal? Is he a serial forger? On account of the above, can we trust him? Can he be trusted with the destinies of over 200 million Nigerians? Can the rest of the world trust him as the embodiment of Nigeria? Last year, I wrote about the history of certificate forgeries and identity…
The high point of the Splash FM gubernatorial debate of 2023 was the furore caused by Governor Seyi Makinde in a desperate bid to defend the former Chairman of the Oyo state Parks Management System, Mukaila aka Auxiliary. The then gubernatorial candidate of the APC , Senator Teslim Folarin had alluded to the fact that the body language of Governor Makinde vis a vis his appointment of a notorious ex convict in person of Auxiliary didn’t help in the maintenance of peace in the state. To Senator Folarin, the Governor’s continuous romance with Auxiliary who, at the material time was…