FG Set to Meter All 187 Flow Stations to End Opacity in Nigeria’s Crude Oil Accounting Lokpobiri says OML 245 issues being resolved, asks Abacha’s family to keep quiet Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Minister of State, Petroleum
Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, yesterday announced that the federal government had
awarded contracts to ensure the full metering of Nigeria’s 187 oil flow stations as well as a software
to track the movement of Nigeria’s oil in the high seas. Briefing journalists in his office in
Abuja, the minister stated that the move was to remove all doubts as to the quantity of oil that Nigeria
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Tinubu Immortalises Soyinka, Names National Theatre, Lagos After Him Nobel laureate celebrates 90th birthday Osundare slams Nigerian leaders
Deji Elumoye in Abuja and Funmi Ogundare in Lagos President
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congratulated Nigeria's literary colossus and global icon, Prof. Wole Soyinka as he marks his 90th birthday today.
The President also announced the renaming of the National Theatre at Iganmu, Lagos as The Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts.
Soyinka is a globally celebrated playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, actor, singer, composer, and documentarian.
He is also a foremost advocate of good governance and of a fair and just society who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986 - the first African
to win the Prize in that category. The Nobel Prize Laureate is a Continued on page 5
After S’Court Ruling, Senior Lawyers Say LCDAs Now at Mercy of LGAs, Governors Insist LCDAs not entitled to benefit from FAAC Declare they are illegal, invalid, unconstitutional Governors, APC, ALGON, IPAC, others hail ruling Deji Elumoye, Alex Enumah, Chuks Okocha, Sunday Aborisade, Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja, Wale Igbintade, Sunday Ehigiator in Lagos, Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia and Hammed Shittu in Ilorin Following the judgement of the Supreme Court on Thursday, which declared financial autonomy for the 774 Local Government Area (LGAs) Councils in the country, the survival of Local Council Development Authorities (LCDAs) in some states now depends
on the benevolence of the LGAs from which they were carved out as well as the magnanimity of the state governments that have them, some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have said. This was as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman, yesterday, declared that the State governors are comfortable with the Supreme Court Continued on page 5
MEDIA BRIEFING… L-R: Governors Bala Mohammed of Bauchi; AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara, and Hope Uzodimma of Imo State addressing State House Correspondents shortly after meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja… yesterday