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tytifbju:
God can locate ANY man and blessed. I see this boy trending soon

Simplyleo:
But according to ipob pigs, no construction is ongoing at the 2nd Niger Bridge.

I thought it is still at the paper completion level when gej left office.

This is the 20 bed space of Ondo state isolation centre.
The health workers are testing the efficacy of the hospital equipments and practicing how to make use of them in the case of emergency, in other to fight coronavirus

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has expressed concern over the coronavirus outbreak.

The cases of the global pandemic in the country have risen to 46 in Nigeria.

The body said it may order its members and those of affiliates to stay at home from Friday if the well-being of tanker drivers, marketers, suppliers among others was not guaranteed.

This was contained in a statement Tuesday night by National President, Williams Eniredonana Akporeha and General Secretary, Afolabi Olawale.

NUPENG observed that its members were rendering critical services to the nation on a daily basis in these critical times.

It noted that the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), Petrol Station Workers (PSW), Petroleum Depots Workers, Independent Marketers Employees, Oil and Gas Suppliers (OGS), Surface Tankers Kerosene Peddlers (SUKATEP), Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers, (LPGAR) and others were becoming highly vulnerable to coronavirus.

“NUPENG is seriously monitoring the unfolding situation while also putting into account the safety and welfare of these vulnerable and integral segments of our membership, which are of paramount concern to us”, it read.

“In the light of the above, the Union may be forced to direct these workers to stay at home with effect from 00:00hrs on Friday 27th March 2020, this is a very difficult decision but necessary and important with respect to the safety of these set of workers.”

Urging members to remain good ambassadors, law-abiding and disciplined, NUPENG prayed that health experts will find a lasting solution to coronavirus.

It urged stakeholders in the downstream sector of the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry to obey health and safety measures by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) by maintaining social distancing and an excellent personal hygiene.

The Senate Public Accounts Committee said on Tuesday that it might consider demanding a warrant for the arrest of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria , Godwin Emefiele , over his alleged refusal to honour invitations extended to him by the legislature .

The committee invited Emefiele to address it on the release of $ 289 m cash to a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency , Ayo Oke , sometime in 2015 .

The Senate had , while acting on a report of the Auditor General for the Federation , last week , uncovered how the CBN released $289 m cash to the former NIA DG.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts , Senator Matthew Urhoghide , said the CBN governor had been summoned several times but he ignored the invitations .

Urhoghide fumed that Emefiele did not also deem it fit to send any official of the CBN to appear before the committee .

He said , “ We have summoned the CBN governor ; it is the only part remaining in the investigation .

“The CBN governor has not sent any of his officials ; they have to corroborate the story being told by those mentioned in the audit query , whether they are correct or not correct.

“ The committee may consider consulting with the Senate leadership with a view to issuing a warrant for the arrest of the governor of Central Bank if he pushes us to the extreme .

“There are over 10 issues highlighted in the audit query that needed to be addressed by Emefiele and his top officials”.

He added that other issues, like the sales of federal bonds , funds collection, and discrepancies in figures between some agencies and the CBN , needed to be addressed by the governor of the apex bank .

The Director of Finance of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , Godwin Okonkwko , had last week told the committee that $289 m was released to the former NIA DG.

Okonkwo had explained that the $289 m cash given to the former NIA boss by the CBN was based on a directive to that effect from the NNPC .

The $43 m found in an Ikoyi apartment in 2017 that led to the sacking of Oke as the DG of NIA was a fraction of $289 m cash collected by the DG from the NNPC.