FG Announces $13.5bn Investment Commitments to Boost Oil Output,Targets 2.1m bpd by 2024 Concludes engagements with 15 major producers
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
The federal government yesterday announced that it had secured
a $13.5 billion investment commitment from International Oil Companies (IOCs) as well as independent producers to boost
the country's crude output in the next 12 months. The Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Mrs. Olu
Verheijen, in a statement posted on the State House’s website, said the partnership was carried out alongside the Nigerian Upstream
been wrapped up with 15 leading operators, Verheijen noted that the
Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). Explaining that the engagements, which began recently have now
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Lawyers Raise the Alarm over Depleting Number of S’Court Justices Alex Enumah in Abuja with agency report Concerns have continued to mount over the depleting number of justices on the bench of the Supreme Court. Following this development,
some senior lawyers have called for the immediate appointment of judges to fill the vacant positions. By law, the apex court is supposed to be composed of 21 justices. But the last time the court came close to realising that feat
was in 2020 when the bench had 20 justices. At the beginning of last year, there were 17 justices on the bench of the apex court. However, between May 2022 and September 2023, about six justices of the apex court either
retired voluntarily after attaining their mandatory retirement age or died. Currently, there are only 11 justices in the court, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. Others are justice are: Musa
Muhammad, Kudirat KekereEkun, John Okoro, Uwani Abba-Aji, Garba Lawal, Helen Morenikeji Ogunwumiju, Ibrahim Saulawa, Adamu Jauro, Tijjani Abubakar and Emmanuel Agim. THISDAY gathered that by the time the CJN would constitute
the seven-member panel that would hear the appeals filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Continued on page 5
Akpabio: Tinubu Steering Nigeria Through Turbulent Waters
Pledges N’Assembly's support to take nation’s ship to harbours of bliss, development
Sunday Aborisade in Abuja and Okon Bassey in Uyo President Bola Tinubu-led administration is steering the country through troubled waters, the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said. Akpabio spoke yesterday at a retreat organised for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. He, however, promised the president and Vice President Kashim Shettima that the 10th National Assembly would collaborate with the executive arm of government to deliver on the ‘Renewed Hope’ agenda, pledging that the "President will not walk alone.” The Senate president said the 10th National Assembly would collaborate with them to take the ship of the nationa to “harbours of bliss and development.” Continued on page 5
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L-R: Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania and Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Partnership for Education, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete; Founder/CEO, Human Capital Africa, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili; and Founder/CEO, Great Green Wall of Africa (GGWoA) Foundation, Ramatoulaye Diallo N'diaye, at the Foundational Learning Roundtable during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA… recently