Umoren replaces Usoro as Abuja MoU secretary-general
Joseph Olaoluwa
Captain Sunday Umoren has been appointed as the Acting Secretary-General of the Abuja Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control.
According to a statement on the website of the Abuja MoU, Umoren, who is the first Master Mariner to head the body, took over the position on January 4 from Mrs Mfon Usoro whose tenure ended recently.
His appointment was approved by Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation and Vice Chairman of the Port State Control for West and Central Africa, Rotimi Amaechi.
The Director-General, of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Bashiru Jamoh, further gave his assent for the nomination.
By Peter Uzoho
Excessive administrative and other sundry charges by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Authority (PPPRA), among others, have caused an astronomical rise in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) commonly known cooking gas, THISDAY’s investigation has revealed.
Also, insufficient supply of LPG to local marketers by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited, which is the major supplier of the product in-country, has also contributed to the scarcity of the product and the resultant increase in price lately.
The numerous charges by the regulators have forced the marketers of the product to hike the price at their stations, resulting in consumers having to pay more for cooking gas, which the federal government is projecting as the preferable cooking fuel.
By Desmond Ejibas
Port Harcourt, Jan. 6, 2021 There was panic in Oduoha community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers, following an early morning pipeline explosion on Wednesday, Naija247news learnt.
The pipeline, which supplies gas through the community to a terminal in Bonny Island, in Rivers, belongs to Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) and Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC).
NAN learnt that two separate gas pipes operated by NLNG and NAOC, ran on the same line where the incident occurred, making it difficult to ascertain who the exact operator of the affected line was, as at the time of filing this report.
What You Need To Know About Nigeria In 2021, By Tolu Ogunlesi
In terms of Police Reforms, demands for which drove the biggest street protests in the country in a generation, I personally hope that 2021 is the year that we start to see the actual hard work of reform being done (which, let’s be honest, is not stuff that can be accomplished on the streets…)
Let’s start with COVID-19.
I recently tweeted this:
“From a Covid-19 POV, it looks like H1 2021 will be a lot like 2020 restrictions, lockdowns, desperate attempts at curve-flattening. That’s probably the second most daring roguish feat 2020 has pulled off this act of deluding us all into regarding it as an aberration.”