Lokpobiri: FG Targets 40,000bpd from NNPC, WAEP, Century FPSO JV in Lagos Says facility critical to Nigeria’s efforts to ramp up oil output
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
The federal government at the weekend
said it was eyeing the production of an additional 40,000 barrels per day to boost the country’s current output
from the ongoing Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility in Lagos.
The project is a Joint Venture (JV) between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC)
and Century Nigeria Limited, in partnership with WAEP, an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC)
firm, as well as Enserv. Continued on page 5
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Mohammed Accepts to Replace Damagum As PDP Crisis Deepens Pledges to abide by party’s constitution Instructs Northcentral to forward names of choice candidates for chairmanship Chuks Okocha in Abuja Efforts to resolve the leadership crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seemed to have taken a turn for the worse as Alhaji Ahmed Yayari Mohammed, yesterday, accepted an earlier appointment as replacement to the embattled National Chairman of the party, Illya Damagum. This was in spite of the directive by governors of the party to all camps to sheathe their swords, following their intervention last
Friday. Mohammed, one of the parties to the disagreements, pledged to abide by the PDP constitution in running the affairs of the party. However, he said, “We must admit that we have not satisfactorily carried out the critical role expected of a virile opposition in a democracy.” Mohammed, who stated in his acceptance letter, added that, "The NWC under my leadership will be Continued on page 5
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