The $1.5bn rehabilitation of the PortHarcourt Refining Company has commenced in full and part of the facility will start delivering refined products by September next year, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has said.   NNPC officially signed the contract with Tecnimont SPA for the $1.5bn rehabilitation programme of PHRC on April 6 and parties in the agreement announced the commencement of the project.   When contacted on Tuesday to speak on the progress of work at the facility, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Kennie Obateru, assured Nigerians that some part of the facility would deliver products

  A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit seeking to nullify the election of Senator Hope Uzodinma and his Deputy, Prof Placid Njoku and to declare the governorship seat of Imo State vacant. Trial judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Monday, held that the applicant, Mcfyne Chikwedu, had no locus standi, adding that the suit was “patently non-justiciable.”   The judge noted that Uzodinma’s election had been affirmed by the Supreme Court and his court was not an election tribunal that could sit on appeal over elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.   The

Igboho wept like a child when I spoke with him on phone –Lawyer Lead counsel for arrested Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has described as inhuman, the treatment his client was being subjected to in the custody of the police in Benin Republic.   The counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu ( SAN), said this while speaking with The PUNCH on Tuesday night.   He said Igboho’s wife, Ropo, a German citizen, who was arrested together with the activist, was also kept in a separate cell by the police in the neighbouring country.   He said, “They chained him

How I made my first million -Obi Cubana Chairman of Cubana Group, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has revealed how he made his first million naira, stating that his breakthrough came after his National Youth Service Corps program in Abuja.   The business tycoon made this known in an interview with BBC Pidgin on Tuesday.   For days, Obi Cubana has been a social media sensation and the rave of the moment, especially with the ‘naira rain’ at his mother’s burial in Oba, a town in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.   Several videos

In what appears to be a mockery of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo; and leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Drainage and Water Resources, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, says juju (charms) has failed.   “Juju no de work again ooo. It failed in Igbo land and it failed too in Yoruba land,” Igbokwe wrote on his Facebook page.   The post was accompanied with a photograph of Mr. Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, heavily decked in charms. Sunday Igboho   Igboho’s arrest in Cotonou, Benin Republic, became national news on