NUPRC: Senior Oil Workers' Three-day Strike Shrank Nigeria's Crude Output to 1.58m bpd in September Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC)
yesterday disclosed that crude oil and condensate production for the month of September 2025 fell to an average of 1.581 million barrels per day, due to
the three-day industrial action by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). Official statistics released
in Abuja by the upstream regulator stated that the 1.581 million bpd average production in September comprised 1.39 million bpd
of crude oil and 191,373 bpd of condensate. The NUPRC attributed the development to the three-day industrial action by senior oil
workers, which resulted in the shutdown of some production and export facilities. Continued on page 5
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Presidency Justifies Clemency Granted 175 Inmates, Ex-convicts Deji Elumoye in Abuja
L-R: Communications Director, Qatar National Library, Mohammed Said; Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Said Ahmad; First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Operations Director, Qatar National Library, Khalid Al Yazeedi; and Distinctive Collection Specialist, Qatar National Library, Iklas Shamiah, during the visit of the First Lady, Minister of State for Education and others to the facility in Doha…yesterday
Following a backlash that greeted the clemency granted Continued on page 5
Bala Mohammed: Defections Won’t Sink PDP, We’ll Return to Aso Villa in 2027
Says defection act of cowardice as Diri joins Mbah Insists PDP will weather the storm, hold November convention Court declines bid to stop party’s convention Chuks Okocha in Abuja The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, has declared that the gale of defections by the members of the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won’t sink the main opposition party, insisting that PDP will
remain strong and reclaim power in 2027. Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja at the inauguration of the media sub-committee of the National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC), Mohammed, who also serves as Chairman of the PDP National Convention Continued on page 5
VISITING PAPAL PALACE...
L-R: His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV; wife of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023 general election, Mrs. Margaret Obi; and her husband, Mr. Peter Obi, during their audience with the Pope at the Vatican City…recently