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NIMASA Opens New Abuja Zonal Office

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, also known as NIMASA, recently inaugurated its brand new zonal office in Abuja.

At the event on Tuesday, the Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, stated that the role that the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency plays in the realization of Nigeria’s economic potential cannot be overstated.

In addition, he stated that there is an urgent requirement to put in place strategic and concrete structures that, in the years to come, will result in the production of quantifiable and intangible dividends.

The minister was quoted as saying that

“As a country on the verge of an economic renaissance, with boundless opportunities in its maritime domain, the role of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency cannot be understated in the delivery of Nigeria’s economic potential,” said the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.However, in order for us as a nation to reach our full potential, there is an urgent requirement for us to put in place strategic and concrete structures that, in the years to come, will yield dividends that are both measurable and intangible in nature.

“As we raise the flag to start the commissioning of all completed projects by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, what will become apparent for all to see is the intentionality, commitment, and focus of the federal government of Nigeria to ensure that the proper foundation is put in place so that as a people, we can continuously build towards a greater tomorrow. ”

“Today, we have gathered here to officially inaugurate the NIMASA Abuja Zonal Office, which was recently acquired. I can assure you that the acquisition of this office is not to fulfil another bureaucratic justification; rather, it is due to the responsibilities and functions that the zonal office plays in discharging NIMASA’s mandate. At the same time, there may be those who will raise questions about the need for a Maritime Administration to secure an office in Abuja, where there is no ocean. This is something that may be questioned by some individuals.

“The Abuja Zonal Office serves as the nexus point between the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), the Federal Ministry of Transportation, the National Assembly, and all other relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies, as well as critical stakeholders like the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), amongst others.”

Also speaking was the Director-General of NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh, who stated that “Work place and working environment is crucial to every business enterprise. Imagine that you are living in a rented place and the landlord asks you to park out every time, when you have plenty to maintain a property and you can live in peace.” As a result, our goal is to establish NIMASA on a groundwork of reliability. This office was established in 1987, and the Abuja office continues to function as a cardinal office, meaning that it interfaces with the operations of other agencies; however, we do not have an office environment. Therefore, the most important thing is to make sure that we keep the same level of sanctity in terms of productivity so that we can increase economic growth and development.

The maritime regional bank will probably be located in this building in the near future.

 

Peter Obi Visits Dele Momodu At His London Residence (Video)

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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, met with Dele Momodu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the London home of Momodu on Tuesday.

According to reports, the seasoned journalist and politician celebrated his birthday with his family, friends, and Tobi Adegboyega, a celebrity pastor.

Dele Momodu published a video of the occasion on his Instagram page, in which he narrated how Peter Obi barged into his house to take part in the birthday celebration.

He made the observation that everyone was thrilled to see the former governor of Anambra State attending the event in the same modest and unassuming manner as he always does.

At the birthday party, Peter Obi is said to have talked with Tobi, who is based in the UK, as well as some of Obi’s other friends, according to Dele.

It was written here:

Most honored to welcome the Labor Party Presidential candidate former GOVERNOR PETER OBI to our home in London. We both flew into London last Sunday and he had promised to drop by today despite his tight schedule…

He met other friends in the house, including @tobiadegboyega_ , @yemiedundf , Dozy Mmobuosi, Chairman Dan Ngerem and his delightful wife Angela, Princes Adedamola & Adeyemi Aderemi, @eniolahen, Dayo Olomu, Yetunde Oduwole…

“Everyone was excited to see PETER OBI walk him in his usual humility and simplicity… I didn’t tell them he was coming”

Lagos Safety commission takes action against imposters

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A number of dishonest consultants and imposters of commission employees, according to Lagos Safety Commission Director-General Lanre Mojola, have been put in check.

Therefore, Mojola urged the public to report the activities of any dishonest official and consultant they may know. He also revealed that legal actions were already being taken against those who had been apprehended.

She also issued a warning to the populace to refrain from depositing money into any accounts other than the designated government bank accounts.

Adewunmi Okoh, who signed the statement on behalf of the commission, said this.

The following was excerpted from the statement: “The Director-General lamented the activities of dishonest members of the public engaging in illegal activities on behalf of Safety Commission and extorting members of the public.

and terminate the engagement of any unqualified consultants. He mentioned that a specific impersonator had recently been imprisoned for a number of years.

“All of its consultants, he continued, are required to always wear authorized identification cards while conducting audits or inspections.

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“The Director-General requested that members of the public use its hotlines, 07000SAFETY and 08181002233, to immediately report any actions taken by dishonest government employees, consultants, or impersonators.

According to him, the commission is in charge of overseeing risk assessment reports, issuing and revoking certificates of overall safety compliance, conducting investigations into safety-related problems and making recommendations as needed, and coordinating all government activities pertaining to the protection of people and property in the state.

 

Perjury: Group files ‘affidavit of urgency’ for Tinubu’s trial

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Prior to May 29, the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative have demanded an investigation and subsequent prosecution of President-elect Bola Tinubu.

This was stated in a “Affidavit of Urgency” in support of an ex parte motion filed with the Federal High Court in Abuja.

In its main case, the group asked the court for permission to apply for an order compelling the Inspector General of Police to investigate Tinubu’s alleged perjury regarding his alleged Guinean citizenship and to order his prosecution if found guilty.

In the motion ex parte bearing the number FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023 and filed on May 16, 2023, ASRADI asserted that the President-elect lied under oath when he refused to provide information regarding his Guinean citizenship on Form EC9, which he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission in order to qualify for the 2023 presidential election.

The group stated that it sought court intervention because its request to the police to investigate the matter had yielded no positive results.

As evidence, the group submitted a letter written by its executive director, Adeolu Oyinlola, to the IG on May 8.

 

Tunisian Court Jails Opposition Leader Rached Ghannouchi to One Year in Prison

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Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Tunisian opposition, was found guilty and given a one-year prison sentence.

After being arrested for allegedly plotting against state security and inciting unrest, the leader of the Ennahda party, who is an outspoken critic of President Said Kaies, has been held in detention since the beginning of the previous month.

According to the report, Mr. Ghannouchi refused to appear in front of the judges and dismissed the allegations as having a political motivation. On Monday, he was handed a sentence despite not being present in court.

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In the meantime, there has been a wave of arrests this year of prominent figures who are opposed to President Saied, who took over full executive powers almost two years ago.

Since February, Mr. Saied’s political opponents and prominent personalities, including former ministers and prominent figures in business, have been arrested a total of 20 times.

The detention of Mr. Ghannouchi and others a month ago prompted widespread outrage across the globe, including from the United States of America, the European Union, and various rights organizations.

 

OPC removes leader over malpractices

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On Monday, the Oyo State branch of the Oodua People’s Congress announced that Rotimi Oguntade, the organization’s former coordinator, had been fired for engaging in organizational irregularities.

Wasiu Adeogun, the state secretary, announced this in a statement.

Adeogun added that attitudes that have the potential to harm the OPC’s reputation in the state were a factor in Oguntade’s removal, along with that of Lateef Babalola, the state commandant.

He claimed that the National Executive Council and National Coordinating Council, the organization’s two highest decision-making bodies, approved their removal, and that this decision is still in effect.

We cannot close our eyes to the numerous unethical actions of the former coordinator of the OPC in the state, he asserted.

“Comrade Rotimi Olumo’s removal as the OPC’s Oyo state coordinator is no longer news.

“The NEC/NCC decided to fire him after it became clear that he had engaged in organizational malpractices.

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“He further dug his own grave by insisting that he was still the state’s OPC coordinator while raising his voice in the media that he had been fired from his position without providing any proof.

Such actions were unethical, and they only served to highlight his extreme desperation.

That is the level of his desperation, and the OPC as a socio-cultural organization will never permit such desperate people to lead the organization, according to Adeogun, who questioned why Olumo continued to parade himself as the coordinator despite being fired.

The scribe went on to say that the OPC in Oyo State is still operational and that all of the organization’s activities there are smoothly coordinated.

“OPC is not about a particular person. It is a company that has persevered through many difficulties, particularly during the lean years of the military. We therefore have a national perspective, and the organization’s leadership has effectively coordinated our activities and organizational structure, ” he said.

 

Uganda Implements Anti-Venting Law to Prevent Gas Flaring

The Ugandan National Government claims that it has learned from Nigeria and other African countries by passing an anti-venting law that prevents gas flaring. This law was modeled after similar legislation in Nigeria.

Mrs. Ruth Ssentamu, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development for Uganda, made this announcement on the sidelines of the recently wrapped-up Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which took place in Houston, Texas, in the United States.

The minister stated that the legislation encourages investments for the country’s oil and gas industry as another one of its benefits.

This was discussed at the Africa Women in Energy International Summit, which had the theme of “Promoting Diversity and Partnership for Growth.” Ssentamu made these remarks at the summit.

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In addition to that, she mentioned that it was in an effort to safeguard the environment from pollution, deterioration, and a lack of investment.

You may remember that the World Bank stated that gas flaring, which is the burning of natural gas associated with oil extraction, is responsible for more than 400 million tons of CO2 equivalent emissions each year. These emissions include methane and other types of pollutants.

Ssentamu stated that Uganda had developed its own oil and gas law by learning from the errors committed by other oil producing countries, particularly those located in Africa. This allowed Uganda to avoid repeating the errors made by its predecessors.

She made the announcement that Uganda will start producing its first oil in 2025 and stated that the country would prohibit gas flaring and any other form of environmental hazards associated with oil exploration and production from the very first day that oil would be produced.

The minister stated that the discovery of oil in any nation ought to naturally be regarded as a blessing. However, he issued a warning that such a blessing could turn into a curse if adequate preparations were not made for it.

She went on to say that oil could be a blessing or a curse for a country depending on its decision to give up agriculture in favor of relying solely on the profits from hydrocarbon resources.

”Uganda prepared itself very well by training Ugandans to be the ones to negotiate the terms, policies, and conditions for its oil industry, and now Ugandans are the ones developing the industry themselves.

“In order to ensure that our business complies with all applicable laws, we have put them into effect. According to one of these laws, all of the money we make from oil sales must be invested solely in the expansion of our infrastructure and cannot be used to buy food or pay employees’ salaries.

Electricity, which is necessary for a nation to become industrialized, is said to be one of the infrastructure developments that will be funded by the resources derived from oil, according to her.

She went on to say that the country would not be in the business of petroleum resources to export all of its oil, so the money made from the sale of oil would be used to construct refineries instead of selling the oil abroad.

Regarding the issue of gender equality, she stated that it was high time for women to be given prominent roles and front row roles in the management of the economy.

”Women are naturally not selfish because they want every member of the family to be happy in an equitable manner,” she said, explaining that this is because women become mothers.

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The Minister of Energy suggested that more women should hold leadership positions in the energy industry.

According to her, when there is an inadequate supply of electricity and a scarcity of cooking gas, it is the women who are forced to resort to using firewood to cook, which reduces the amount of time she has left in her life.

Tinubu, Akpabio, others to launch book about El-Rufai’s eight years in Kaduna

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A book about Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, is scheduled to be released on Saturday by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Chairman of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi.

Putting The People First: The El-Rufai Years is a 412-page compilation of articles on the eight years of the El-Rufai administration as governor of Kaduna State, written by seasoned journalist Emmanuel Ado.

Speaking to reporters on Monday in Kaduna, Co-Chairman of the Public Presentation Organizing Committee Tony Maude said the book, which had been recommended by Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege, “provides perspectives on a wide range of issues: agenda setting, policy statements, budget, Internally Generated Revenue, Local Government and Public Service reforms, and the perennial security challenges confronting the State, including the nagging Southern Kaduna question.”

According to Maude, Emmanuel Ado’s collection of articles titled “Putting The People First: The EI-Rufai Years” details the eight years that El-Rufai served as governor of Kaduna State. Emmanuel Ado has been a resident of Kaduna for more than 50 years and is a senior journalist and media consultant with extensive experience.

According to Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, the Deputy Senate President, in his Forward to the book, “Putting The People First: The El-Rufai Years ‘provides perspectives on a wide range of issues: agenda setting, policy statements, budget, Internally Generated Revenue [IGR], Local Government and Public Service reforms, the perennial security challenges confronting the State and the nagging Southern Kaduna question, amid the regime of conspiracy theories as well as the COVID

Additionally, he claimed that the book made a “immense contribution to governance and political leadership in Nigeria” and that it documented “political stewardship and the trope of governance,” both of which Nigeria has lacked.

For politicians, administrators, political scientists, researchers, students, and the general public, this book is a valuable resource on El-Rufai’s tenure as governor of Kaduna State.

He added that “His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President-Elect, Federal Republic of Nigeria will grace the occasion as the Special Guest of Honour, Sen. Uba Sani, Governor-Elect, Kaduna State will serve as Chief Presenter, HRH, Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi II, 14th Emir of Kano as Chairman and HRH, Amb. Ahmed Nuhu Bamali, Emir of Zazzau as Royal Father of the Day.

Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State, Barr. Simon Lalong, Governor of Plateau State and Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, and Dr. Bashir Jamoh, Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, are among the guests of honor.

 

Insurgents kill three Nigerian, Nigerien soldiers, injure 12

According to Reuters, on Sunday, Islamist fighters carried out attacks in the Northeast of the country, which resulted in the deaths of at least three soldiers from Nigeria and Niger and injured at least 12 others.

The soldiers were a component of the Multinational Joint Task Force, which is comprised of armed personnel from the countries of Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. The mission of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) is to put an end to the Islamist insurgency that has caused the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of millions more.

According to a source within the Nigerian military, two members of the MNJTF lost their lives when an improvised explosive device detonated under their vehicle while they were pursuing insurgents in the Arege region of Borno State, which is considered to be the epicenter of the insurgency in the region. There were a total of 12 people hurt: ten military personnel, including the commanding officer, and two civilians who were helping the military personnel.

Another explosive device went off in the vehicle that a Nigerien soldier was riding in when they carried out a separate attack in Arege, which resulted in the death of the soldier. According to a source within the Nigerien army, the total number of injured soldiers as a result of this attack is not yet known.

In a situation report, the MNJTF confirmed the attacks; however, the MNJTF spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Kamarudeen Adegoke, was not available for comment at the time this report was made.

PDP: Makarfi’s Suspension Illegal

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The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has overturned the suspension of Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi in Kaduna State. Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi is a former governor of Kaduna State and a former acting national chairman of our party.

The party has stated that the suspension does not comply with the provisions of the PDP Constitution (in its amended form from 2017), despite the fact that it has declared the suspension to be null and void and without effect.

There were rumors circulating that the former governor had been removed from his position as governor by the PDP Ward Executive of the Tudun Wada Ward in the Makarfi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

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In 2019, Makarfi ran for the presidency on the ticket of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), for which he had previously served as acting national chairman of the party.

However, in a statement released on Monday, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) said, “The attention of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to the purported suspension of former Governor of Kaduna State and former Acting National Chairman of our Party, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi. This suspension was reportedly carried out by the Ward Executive of Tudun Wada Ward of Makarfi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.”

“The NWC, after a thorough consideration of all of the issues raised by the Ward Executive, hereby declares the purported decision and action of the Tudun Wada Ward Executives which borders on issues of discipline, as null and void and of no effect, not being consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (As amended in 2017).”

“For the sake of clarity, Section 57 (7) provides that “Notwithstanding any other provision relating to discipline, no Executive Committee, at any level except the National Executive Committee, shall entertain any question of discipline as may relate or concern a member of the National Executive Committee, Deputy Governor, or member of the National Assembly.”

“The National Working Committee has therefore issued a charge to all leaders, critical stakeholders, members, and teeming supporters of our Party in Kaduna State and the general public to disregard the purported suspension of Senator Makarfi by the Ward for being a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of our Party.

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The National Working Committee also issued a call to all party members in Kaduna State, saying, “The NWC also charges all Party members in Kaduna State to remain united at this critical time especially as the Party leadership is progressing in our concerted effort to ensure a comprehensive reconciliation in our Party,” according to a statement released by the party.