TotalEnergies to Add 140,000bpd to Nigeria’s Oil Output on the Back of Tinubu’s Policies Petroleum products overtake crude oil, account for 47.5% of UK imports from Nigeria
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The Deputy Managing Director of TotalEnergies E&P Nigeria Limited in charge of Deepwater
Assets, Mr. Victor Bandele, has disclosed that following the incentives provided by President
Bola Tinubu’s administration in 2023/2024 to encourage investments on gas projects,
the French energy giant’s Ubeta deepwater project and Ima shallow water offshore field
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L-R: Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud; Deputy Chief of Staff (Administration) Office of the President of Ghana; Hon. Nana Oye Bampoe Addo; and Group Managing Director, Abuja Investments Company Limited, Dr. Maureen Tamuno, at the Abuja Business and Investment Expo (ABIE 3.0) at the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja…Friday
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Okpebholo, Ododo, Umahi, Oyetola Rally against Adeleke Army warns troops against partisanship Arrests of Accord Party leaders question police neutrality
Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo As the campaign for the August 15 governorship election in Osun State gathers fresh momentum, Governors Monday Okpebholo of Edo State, Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State; Minister of Works, David Umahi; and the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, have urged the people of the state to reject Governor Ademola Adeleke and elect the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji. This is just as the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Auwalu L-R: Senegalese Islamic scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mahy; Grand Khalifa of the Tijjaniyya Order, Algeria, Sheikh Ali Al-Arabi; President Bola Ahmed
PLAYING HOST TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS…
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Tinubu; and Leader of the Tijjaniyya Islamic movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim Dahiru Bauchi, during the visit of Tijjaniyya Order delegation from Nigeria, Algeria and Senegal to the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...Friday PHOTO: GODWIN OMOIGUI