Nigeria's Crude, Condensate Output Hit over Three-year High in Boost for 2025 Budget Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Nigeria's crude oil and condensate production hit a high of three years and four months in January, rising to
1.737 million barrels per day during the period, and a major boost for the country's projected N54.9 trillion revenues in the 2025 budget. Although it fell short of the
country's forecast daily production of 2.06 million bpd for the year 2025, it was a major improvement on Nigeria's total volume of oil pumped, which fell to as low as 1.1 million
bpd in the last quarter of 2022. The country's new production data from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) showed that since April
2021, when the country produced 1.74 million bpd, the country has not achieved the current peak. Since 2020, after the COVID 19 pandemic, the country has struggled
to meet its oil production target, blaming massive oil theft, unbridled vandalism of oil assets in the Niger Continued on page 5
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Tinubu, Obasanjo, Jonathan, Buhari, Atiku, Obi, Governors, Others Mourn Pa Adebanjo at 96 Say deceased's principled voice of political activism’ll be deeply missed Declare he will be remembered as foremost nationalist, patriot who gave his best as active community leader
Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha in Abuja, Segun James, Sunday Ehigiator in Lagos, James Sowole in Abeokuta and Fidelis David in Akure
President Bola Tinubu yesterday mourned the death of the leader of the apex Yoruba socio-political group,
Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo at the age of 96, saying the deceased's principled voice of political activism will be deeply missed.
Also, former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, former vice president, Atiku Abubukar, the
Presidential candidate of the Labour party in the last general election Peter Obi and Senator Orji Kalu, also commiserated with the family
of the late Afenifere leader. Governors of Ogun State, Dapo Continued on page 5
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38TH AU GENERAL ASSEMBLY...
L-R: First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; President of Botswana, Duma Boko; President of Senegal, Bassirou Biomaye Faye; Rwandan President, Paul Kagame; Kenyan President, William Ruto; President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa; Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley; Former Prime Minister of Chad and Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, and others at the High-Level Meeting on Domestic Health Financing in Africa held on the sidelines of the 38th AU General Assembly in Addis Ababa…yesterday
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