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Good morning! Here Are Some Major News Headlines In The Newspapers Today: Makinde, South West PDP Demand Immediate Removal Of REC Over Integrity

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October 17, 2024

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1. The leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest and Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has said the party would continue to protest until the Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs. Babalola Oluwatoyin is removed. The governor spoke in Akure at the flag-off of the PDP campaign ahead of next month’s governorship election.

2. The Presidency has said the absence of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima will not create any leadership vacuum in the country. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, in a statement on Wednesday, said physical presence was not necessary to perform their duties.

3. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Communications Satellite Ltd (NigComSat), Mrs Jane Egerton-Idehen, has said Nigeria is now deploying all its satellite assets against terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers. This means that the security challenges confronting the country might end soon, she added.

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4. Sgt Abraham Uzuobo, an officer attached to Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, is presently facing disciplinary action for reportedly raping a minor detained at South-Ibie police division. The suspect, a 17-year-old girl, was detained for allegedly receiving stolen property.

5. The Minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Wale Edun, has said the government acknowledges the pain the current reforms of government have inflicted on Nigerians, while stating that the reforms are necessary for growth and development of the economy. Edun stated this while speaking on a panel session at the ongoing Nigeria Economic Summit on ‘Fiscal reforms for secure future’.

6. Lagos and Delta states’ governments have promised to pay N85,000 and N77,500 as the minimum wage for their workers. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced the new minimum wage, which is N15,000 higher than the N70,000 approved by the Federal Government in July.

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7. Three days before the local government elections in Kaduna State, the state Labour Party chairman, Hon. Isah Chiroma, and the PDP Kafachan Ward B Jema’a LGA councilorship candidate, Abdullahi Imrah have defected to the APC. Mr Chiroma, who spoke during the flag-off of the campaign and presentations of flags to councilorship candidates, said the inclusive system of governance of Senator Uba Sani motivated him to join in moving the state forward.

8. Over 120 people who lost their lives in Tuesday’s tanker expansion in Majia town of Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State were buried Wednesday. Nearly a hundred other persons who were injured during the incident are still in the hospital.

9. The value of the naira depreciated at the unofficial market on Wednesday as it traded at 1,705/dollar, according to Bureau De Change operators in Lagos and Abuja.

10. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, says there is a need to have power grids in different regions or states to put an end to incessant grid collapses. The minister stated this on Wednesday when he unveiled Hexing Livoltek, an electricity meter manufacturing company in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

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JUST IN: NSIB locates wreckage of crashed helicopter in Port Harcourt

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October 31, 2024

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The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) says its search and recovery teams have successfully located the wreckage of the ditched Sikorsky SK76 helicopter.

In a statement on Thursday, Bimbo Olawumi Oladeji, NSIB’s director of public affairs and family assistance, said the wreckage was identified during recovery dives conducted on Wednesday night.

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Don’t Patronise Fake Oil And Gas Bodies, NUPENG Cautions

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October 31, 2024

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The leadership of our Union has identified fraudulent advertisements from individuals falsely claiming to represent a dubious association of Transporters and Oil and Gas Marketers.

The association urge the public and government institutions to be vigilant against these unscrupulous figures, who seek to exploit the current economic landscape following the removal of fuel subsidies. The Union reaffirms its support for recognized associations in the industry and urges all stakeholders to reject these miscreants and their deceptive practices.

The open letter below:

The attention of the leadership of our great Union has been drawn to some advertisements on news media of some unscrupulous and dangerous individuals claiming to be members of one amorphous association they claim is both Transporters and Marketers of the Oil and Gas at the same time, and we wish to state that this association is nothing but assemblage of failed Rent Seekers in the Subsidy Regime and Irredeemable Smugglers of Petroleum Products disguising as businessmen and women.

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The general public and government institutions are hereby warned and strongly . advised to be very wary of these individuals who are desperately seeking ways and means to continue to exploit Nigerians and collecting rents in other manners since the current administration removed subsidy from petroleum products and make
smuggling unprofitable for them.

The leadership of our great Union recognizes National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) as the legitimate umbrella body of Transporters in the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry and Employers of Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD) of which our Union has Collective Bargaining Agreement with on behalf of Petroleum Tankers Drivers.

We also recognize Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Major Energy Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN) as well as Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) as legitimate marketers of Oil and Gas products. These are associations of Marketers that are well known and respected in the downstream sector of the Nigeria oil and gas industry.

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There is also no ambiguity in the fact that the Nigeria Labour laws only recognize Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) as the umbrella bodies
for oil and gas Workers in Nigeria. These are the two organizations that represent and protect the job interests of the Nigeria oil and gas workers including Petroleum lanker Drivers (PTD) as prescribed in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Niger
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GAS WORKERS

We implore all well-meaning Nigerians and government officials whose names these Usurpers and Rent Seekers are dropping to urgently disregard any invitation from them and publicly denounce them because they are purely mischief-makers, names Droppers and unscrupulous business individuals that can sell their families and country for money and are unfortunately part of those that plunge the country into the current economic woes and hardship that the country is currently battling and struggling with. Following numerous failed attempts to coerce our Union into collecting money for them at various petroleum depots, they have now resorted to these names-calling and cheap blackmail to further their insidious rent-seeking schemes.

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Our Solidarity remains Constant for the Union makes us strong!!!

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Finally, Joseph Wayas, ex-senate president, to be buried November 30 — three years after his death

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October 31, 2024

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November 30 has been fixed for the burial of former Senate President Joseph Wayas, who died three years ago.

Wayas, who served as senate president from October 1, 1979, to December 31, 1983, died on November 30, 2021, at a London hospital after a protracted illness. He was 80 years old.

On July 10, his remains arrived in Nigeria after several controversies that followed the repatriation of his corpse.

Speaking on Thursday at a press briefing in Calabar, the capital of Cross River, Dorn-Cklaimz Enamhe, secretary of the central planning committee for Wayas’ burial, thanked Bassey Otu, governor of the state, and other individuals for repatriating Wayas’ body.

Enamhe noted that the committee, in collaboration with other authorities in Nigeria and the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom (UK), worked together to ascertain the authenticity of the body.

He also appreciated the media for constantly reminding the nation that the body of the former senate president was yet to be buried.

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“Unfortunately, the body has been kept this long due to issues and disagreement among members of his family,” he said.

“We had to wait for these issues to be resolved, and as of today, they have been resolved; that is why we are going ahead with the burial.”

Nsa Gil, the chief press secretary to the governor of Cross River, added that the funeral would be held at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar and later at the deceased’s hometown in Bassang, Obanliku LGA.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio and many other dignitaries are expected to attend the burial.