NNPC, Security Agencies Impound 1,000-tonne Barge in Fight against Oil Theft Kyari’s intervention unlocked 30,000bpd of crude from OML 130, say TotalEnergies boss Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Sylvester Idowu in Warri
The collaboration between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC),
federal security agencies, and Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, owned by Government
Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, has again led to the seizure of a 1,000-tonne barge
half-filled with stolen crude oil. This is coming as the Deputy Managing Director, Deepwater
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In Building Bridges, Tinubu’s Loyalists Visit Bode George, Seek Support for President-elect Segun James Ast of Nigeria. As part of the efforts to build
bridges and ward off the incessant attacks on the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, by the former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, the loyalists of the former Lagos State governor yesterday visited George in his Lugard Road,
Ikoyi office to solicit support for the incoming President of Nigeria. George, a fierce critic of Tinubu,
had vowed to go into exile if the former Lagos State governor who was the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
emerged as Nigeria’s president in the 2023 general election. Continued on page 5
APC Begins Review of Zoning This Week, But Tinubu Stands in Queue With Akpabio Moves to compensate North-central Abbas, Kalu urge Sanwo-Olu to reach out to govs, other aspirants Yari writes senators-elect, insists on contesting for Senate presidency Chuks Okocha, Adedayo Akinwale, Sunday Aborisade in Abuja and Segun James in Lagos Following the protests over the zoning of the National Assembly leadership positions by the All Progressives Congress (APC), which ceded two slots to the North-west geopolitical zone and none to the North-central, the party may kick off the process of reviewing the zoning arrangements this week, THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY gathered that while the President-elect, Bola Tinubu has stood in solidarity with the APC’s preferred choice of candidate for the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, the ruli party is making moves to compensate the North-central geopolitical zone.
This is coming as the party’s anointed candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, and the preferred choice for Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, have urged the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to reach out to his colleagues and other aspirants to ensure the success of the party’s preferred candidates. Also, despite the selection of the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Akpabio, as the party’s preferred candidate for Senate President, a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Yari, has written to the Senators-elect on his ambition to contest the Senate Presidency. Continued on page 5
KEEP THE HONOURS COMING… Managing Director, THISDAY Newspapers, Mr. Eniola Bello (left), receiving the African Media Entrepreneur Icon of the Decade Award on behalf of the Chairman/ Editor-in-Chief, THISDAY/ARISE Media Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, from the Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr. Kingsley Otuaro, at the National Daily’s Awards in Lagos…weekend MUBO PETERS
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