Lokpobiri: FG Deploying Drones to Tackle Oil Theft, Seeks Support for Additional 1m bpd Target Says Nigeria ready to host $5bn Africa Energy Bank Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, yesterday said the federal government would deploy new
technologies like drones and satellite surveillance to halt massive oil theft in the Niger Delta.
Lokpobiri also called for greater commitment from industry players to Nigeria’s ambitious plan to increase
government was ready to host the
crude oil production by over one million barrels per day within the next 24 months, saying the federal
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Makinde: 2027 Elections Will Be APC Versus Nigerians, Not Between PDP and Ruling Party Urges PDP leaders to unite against external control
Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, yesterday declared that the 2027 general election will be between
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the people of Nigeria, and not between the ruling party
and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Makinde has also urged the
leaders of the PDP to unite against any form of external control that may prevent them from uniting
and forming a strong opposition Continued on page 5
History as Kemi Badenoch Becomes First Black Woman to Lead UK’s Conservative Party New opposition leader vows to hold government to account, return her party to power
Festus Akanbi with agency report History was made yesterday as the United Kingdom's Conservative Party announced the election of Kemi Badenoch as its leader ahead of her closest rival, Robert Jenrick. Badenoch, who received 53,806 votes to defeat Robert Jenrick who got 41,388, succeeds Rishi Sunak as leader of the opposition party. Speaking on the significance of her victory and her ambitions for the party, she said her first responsibility is to hold the Labour Party’s government to account, while the second is to prepare for the next few years for the government. The former British Business Secretary is the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK and takes charge of a Conservative Party reeling from its worst-ever election defeat. Born in Wimbledon, London, on January 2, 1980, to Nigerian parents, she spent her childhood in Lagos and the United States until she returned Continued on page 5
CELEBRATING NEWEST COUPLE… L-R: Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun; Bride’s Father, Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr; Couple, Afolasade and Adebola Ogunsanya; Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; and the Groom’s Uncle, Chief Adewunmi Ogunsanya, at the traditional marriage of Afolasade Adenuga and Adebola Ogunsanya in Lagos…recently LANRE ALFRED
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