Nigeria’s Increasing Oil Production Reduces OPEC's Declining Output Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Nigeria’s rising crude oil production has reduced the declining output
by the other member countries of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a survey has shown.
According to the survey, crude oil output from OPEC fell only slightly in June as rising production levels in Nigeria and Iraq limited
the impact of cutbacks by other member countries. A Reuters survey did not indicate the actual volume of the
meet its OPEC production allocation for over 30 months.
commodity produced by Nigeria, but the country which registered improvement during the month under review, has been unable to
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Obi-Datti Campaign Alleges Attempts to Doctor FCT Results Chuks Okocha in Abuja As President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
open their defence tomorrow at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation yesterday warned the electoral umpire against tampering with
INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) to give 25 per cent of the votes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Labour Party (LP), and their presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, respectively, had closed their cases penultimate Friday. But a statement issued yesterday
by the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation alleged that INEC was trying to yield to pressure to tinker with the results of some states, including the FCT to enable the ruling APC to be in good standing.
The statement, which was signed by the Head of the Media Office of the campaign organisation, Mr. Diran Onifade, Continued on page 5
N’Assembly Members Intensify Lobby for Appointment into Key Committees
Pro-Yari senators plan to challenge Akpabio's victory in court Threat a mere ploy to negotiate for committee positions, say Senate president’s loyalists APC urges lawmakers to collaborate with Tinubu
Sunday Aborishade in Abuja As the members of the National Assembly resume plenary on Tuesday, July 4, after the Sallah break, the federal lawmakers have begun to intensify lobbying for appointment as chairmen and members of key standing committees considered, THISDAY has learnt. Also, plans by the aggrieved senators in the camp of the former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, to challenge the emergence of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the Senate President in court, thickened at the weekend as the disgruntled group insisted that the result of the election was manipulated. However, Akpabio’s loyalists have described the threat of court action as a mere ploy by the proYari lawmakers to negotiate for
appointment into the standing committees of the Senate, just as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has charged the federal lawmakers to collaborate with President Bola Tinubu. THISDAY gathered that the lobby has become more intense in the House of Representatives, which has since constituted a selection committee to recommend members for appointment as chairmen and vice chairmen of the various Standing Committees. Before the lawmakers adjourned for the Sallah break, the Speaker of the House, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, had appointed seven special committees, including a selection committee chaired by himself. The six other committees include Continued on page 5
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