Militants have attacked Nigerian state oil and gas pipelines in the Niger delta, the second sabotage in two days following an assault on Chevron infrastructure, a state official said Friday. The attack on a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline took place late Thursday near Warri, a city in Nigeria’s increasingly volatile oil-producing south. “Another crude pipeline was attacked Thursday night near Batan oil field in Warri,” Eric Omare, a Delta state governor aide and spokesman for the Ijaw Youth Council, one of the largest ethnic groups in the region, told AFP.

Warri resident Augustine Amaka said the sabotage had polluted the area around the pipeline, while soldiers had cordoned off the site. Militant group Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) appeared to claim the attack Friday in a statement on a Twitter account bearing their name that said it had blown up the pipeline. “This is the same pipeline that has already been attacked in February and May this year and which provides gas to Lagos for power generation,” said Dirk Steffen, from the Denmark-based Risk Intelligence firm. Recent attacks on oil infrastructure in Nigeria’s southern swamplands have caused water supplies to be turned off in Lagos, the country’s biggest city.

Oil output in Africa’s largest economy has dropped to a 20-year low following repeated attacks claimed by the NDA, a new group demanding more economic and political control of the region. In one of their most sophisticated attacks NDA divers targeted Shell’s underwater flow line near Forcados in February, an ambitious assault in deep waters requiring experienced scuba divers.

Speaking after meeting officials from the Niger delta on Thursday, Nigeria’s junior oil minister Emmanuel Kachikwu appeared to signal that the federal government sees dialogue, not force, as the solution to ending the attacks. Kachikwu called for a restructuring of the amnesty scheme — a kind of welfare programme for former rebels — and voiced an “urgent need to create business opportunities for the locals in the region.” The amnesty scheme was introduced in 2009 after years of violence, including kidnappings and attacks on oil and gas installations, by militants demanding a fairer share of revenues for local people.

There has been uncertainty over the scheme’s future since President Muhammadu Buhari took office last May, with indications it would gradually be wound down. Unlike the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast, the militant activity in the Niger delta has an immediate and significant impact on the country’s wealth, with oil exports accounting for 70 percent of Nigeria’s government revenue.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/militants-attack-nnpc-oil-gas-pipeline-confirmed/

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Nepotism Alert: Update Of Buhari's Lopsided Appointments

Below is a list of Nigerians appointed to head different federal parastatals/offices/positions by President Buhari.


1. DG DPR Mordecai Ladan. NORTHWest
2. Accountant-General Ahmed Idris.Kano NORTH West
3. Chief of Protocol Lawal Kazaure Kano NORTH West
4. Chairman INEC Mahmoud Yakubu North East
5. Chief of Staff Abba Kyari Borno Northeast
6. DG NIMASA Buba Haruna Jauro Yobe NORTH east
7. Head of Service Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita Southsouth
8. SSA Media Shehu Garba Kano NORTH west
9. SA Media Femi Adeshina Osun South WEST
10. CG NSCDC Abdulahi Mohammed North Central
11. DG SSS Lawal Daura Katsina North west
12. NSA Babagana Monguno Borno Northeast
13. CDS Abayomi Gabriel Ekiti South West
14 COArmyS TY Buratai Borno North East
15' COAirS Marshal Sadique Bauchi North East
16 CONavalS Ibok-Ete Ekwe Crossriver South South
17' DG Amnesty P T Boroh Southsouth
18. ADC Mohammed Lawal Kano North West
19. CSO Abdulrahman Mani Northwest.
20. EVC NCC Umaru Danbatta Kano North west.
21. Chairman Transition Commitee Ahmed Joda Northeast.
22. MD AMCON Ahmed Lawan Kuru Northwest
23. CG Customs Col Hameed Ali North West
24. Aliyu Yahaya Gusau DG Budget Northwest
25. EC FIRS Dr Williams Babatunde Fowler Lagos southwest
26. Babachir David Lawal SGF North East
27. CG Customs Col Hameed Ali Northwest
28. CG Immigation Kure Martin Abeshi NorthCentral
29. SSA NASS Suleiman A. Kawu NorthCentral
30. SSA NASS Ita S.J. Enang Southsouth
31. MD NPA Habibu Abdulahi Kano North-West
32. DG Budget Aliyu Gusau Zamfara North west
33. EFCC Madu Ibrahim North West
34. DG NOTAP Dan Azumi Mohammed North West
35. NIMC Engr. Aliyu M Aziz North Central
36. NDIC Umaru Ibrahim Kano NW
37. Federal Character Shettima Bukar Abba NE Borno
38. SA Social Protection, Maryam Uwais Kaduna, NW.
39. Chairman NDLEA Muhammad Abdallah Adamawa, NE
40. MD NDDC Ibim Seminitari Rivers SS
41. PA New Media, Bashir Ahmed Kano, NW
42. NEITI Waziri Adio, Osun SW
42. DG SMEDAN Dr Dikko Umaru Raqqa. Katsina
43. DG NIMASA Dakuku Peterside Rivers SS
44. OPEC Sec Gen Mohammed Barkindo NW
45. DG NYSC Kazaure NW
46. Okoi Obono-obla SA Prosecution Cross River SS
47. Ahmed Jafaru CG Prisons Jigawa North West
48. Mohammed Babandede CG Immigration Jigawa North WestTALLY

North west 25
Northeast 9
Northcentral 4
Southwest 4
Southsouth 6
Southeast 0


UPDATED

49. Mr. Ishaq Modibo Kawu - Director-General, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Kwara North Central
50. Mr. Mansur Liman - Director-General, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Katsina North West
51. Mr. Yakubu Mohammed - Director-General, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Bauchi North East
52. Dr. Garba Abari, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA) Yobe North East
53. Mr. Bayo Onanuga - Managing Director, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Ogun South West
54. Mr. Osita Okechukwu - Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) Enugu South East





TALLY
North west 26
Northeast 11
Northcentral 5
Southwest 5
Southsouth 6
Southeast 1

The most educationally backward lead Nigeria.