After 3 Deferments, $2.8bn AKK Pipeline Set for Mechanical Completion in November 614km gas transportation facility hits over 86% execution Ojulari says pipeline to supply 2.2 bscf to power plants in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja After at least three postponements, the 614-kilometre Ajaokuta-
Kaduna-Kano (AKK) valued at about $2.8 billion, has hit 86.05 per cent completion, with a new date of November ending set
for its mechanical completion by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC). Mechanical completion is a
technical term often used in engineering, oil and gas, and construction industries to signify that all mechanical work, including
equipment installation, piping, welding, among others, has been finished and is ready for testing or commissioning.
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Bala Mohammed: Only Transparent Convention Will Turn PDP Around Damagum claims members who left for coalition are coming back Saraki: My c’ttee delivering on its assignment
Chuks Okocha in Abuja The chairman of the Peoples Demo-
cratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Bala Mohammed, has said only a transparent national convention of
the party would be the game changer for the turnaround of the party. This came as the acting national
chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum, claimed that some members of the party, who initially joined
the African Democratic Congress (ADC), have started coming back to the party.
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Tells progressive govs Nigerians complaining at grassroots, says they should wet grass more Describes opposition as coalition of confusion Lauds Ganduje’s role in party devt, ideological clarity Yilwatda emerges APC National Chairman, NEC reshuffles NWC positions for balancing I do not take this mandate for granted, new chair pledges Abbas: ADC coalition desperate, lacks ideology Ganduje, Alia back new ruling party’s chair
14TH NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE APC...
L-R: President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; Vice President Kashim Shettima; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; new National Chairman, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, National Secretary of APC, Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru, and Chairman, Progressive Governors Forum/Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, during the 14th National Executive Committee PHOTO: GODWIN OMOIGUI Meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held at the State House Conference Centre, Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday