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The measures introduced by the Federal Government to monitor crude transit and check oil theft are said to be threatening income lifeline, compounding the damage the crude price fall has done to Nigeria’s finances, access to dollars and imports.

Oil traders and shipping brokers said a newly implemented “letter of comfort” requirement under which vessel owners must sign a guarantee that their ships would not be used for theft had made it more difficult and expensive to load Nigerian crude, putting some buyers off.

A copy of the letter draft seen by Reuters requested vessel owners to “guarantee to indemnify” the government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation against any illicit use of their vessels, which led some owners to reject pending bookings. Traders say others are refusing future requests for now.

“Nobody is coming forward for offering the vessel and whoever is willing to go to Nigeria is asking exorbitant rates,” said K. Namdeo, head of refineries at India’s HPCL, adding they would “be cautious in future” about buying Nigerian crude.

Tanker owner, Heidmar, was said to have rejected an HPCL Nigerian fixture due to insurance concerns over the letter. Finding a replacement proved difficult. Provisional fixtures showed the MT Solana sailing to West Africa for HPCL, but the vessel turned away from Africa, according to tracking data, and is now en-route to the Bahamas without oil.
Fixtures showed the refiner putting two Suezmax vessels on subjects for the journey, which typically adds to costs.

Some European buyers are also now treading carefully with Nigeria, according to the report.
An oil trader for one Mediterranean refiner said they “will not touch a single drop of Nigerian crude until this matter on the letter of comfort is solved.”

There is little disagreement that Nigeria needs to fight oil theft, which President Muhammadu Buhari has said siphons as much as 250,000 barrels per day of crude of its nearly two million bpd of production.
Industry sources said an initial effort, the banning of roughly 100 oil tankers that came from Buhari’s office in July, was too blunt an instrument. But in lifting that ban earlier this month, it added the letter of comfort with immediate effect, which sources said applied to all vessels, creating a potentially bigger problem.
Oil tanker industry association, INTERTANKO, said the letter as drafted would give the Nigerian authorities a “blank cheque” for any perceived violations.
“NNPC’s guarantee terms would allow the Nigerian authorities to impose an arbitrary penalty for breach of local law – of which owners might be unaware – and then demand an indemnity for their losses without the need to prove any loss,” said INTERTANKO’s General Counsel, Michele White, adding that “owners’ insurance would not respond to that.”

Shipping sources said that in addition to Heidmar, Asian companies, China Shipping and AMCL, would not call at Nigerian ports for the time being, nor will Greece’s Chandris.
“The revenue impact will be significant,” said Dolapo Oni, head of energy research with pan-African lender, Ecobank.
“Due to the expensive freight, we are likely to see differentials weaken considerably, which means we could have lower revenue than normal,” he added.


http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/buyers-stop-loading-nigerian-crude/

Embarrassing moment

Rubbish.....

Senseix ........

PunkyVeer:
Called & when I picked up to say "hello", all I could hear was him breathing. How creepy. Did this for months & at any time of the day or night until I finally changed my number. Who calls just to show off healthy lungs & breathing ability? Hahaha

Lolzz you wicked o!

Ifyjuli25:
the shape seems like mine but I can't wear such to church..

Happy birthday to you

streetzdreamz:
so from your words am less of a man cuz I don't believe in marriage huh?mans wants is definitely insatiable and not homogenous,we can't have thesame views on issues,so if mine negates yours t shudnt raise ur b.p,u spent quality time planning for a proposal,cash and your gain was what? The tears that fell from her eyes,a YES and a moment you'l cherish all your life,good for you mister..yea right,its the 21st century and marital vows and consecrations has gone down the drain,you have an idea of the number of women suffering one form of abuse or the oda from their husbands? Emotional games and traumas?iresponsible men that leaves the burden of the entire family on their wives alone?how many of them cry out,or speak out? Just a tiny fragment and u there telling me ts d 21st century and ladies aint in slavery when things goes sour,am not at liberty to discuss with you why I hate that institution,will only wish you the best from it.

Talking rubbish!!!!

handie:
If my girlfriend is waiting for any of these new proposing techniques, then she go tey for garage o. Na either through text message, whatsapp message or a bbm ping. If that's not good enough for her, she fit face front abeg

This guy sef lolz

The person below me is confuse..

May God bless Sani Abacha?

phemsie:
35 people

Jus the couple

franxalive:
35-PEEPU

Just two

Johniyke2flex:
Just 2! The couple!

Smh! Just when I thought this is another opportunity to break into a downstream oil and gas company, I saw this..."with a minimum of 10yrs experience in plant maintenance".

Dem dey steal experience for market? Foolish people!!!

10 years :oexperience guess it's for old people

Result of getting high without the most High!!!

First question

Congratulations

FriedPlantain:

Abeg guys how una go fit take help me today?
I was downloading this new p0rn made by Paris Hinton some minutes ago and network was really slow. when I suddenly noticed my stomach growling like crazy. I quickly set my phone down and made my way to the kitchen to slice and cook as it was pretty obvious I was hungry.
After setting the yam on the stove, I jumped on my bed only to notice the movie had finished downloading. I started playing the movie and I gotta admit the sex scenes were really great and didn't know when my hands made way into my pants.


My blockos is itching me like crazy now, I feel like dying,.... . Guys what can I do to stop this.?

Wo be this idiaat!!

Time to go school.... if you no go school

8, 13 and 7 fine

KashyBaby:
I juz wanna say THANK YOU to d Nairaland Forum Team for sending me a Birthday Greetings thru email..Highly appreciated

If u really want to learn the Nigerian pidgin let me know

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5th of April

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We kon carry you for your awse now now

Na joke o!

Sumtin like this.... #abeg na joke o!

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jesu ahn ahn....
bros you go primary school at all?

The answer is 7 use calculator if you doubt

Lolz

GEJ nd okonjo

Christiane Amanpour
born 12 January 1958 to Mr. Mahmoud Amanpour an Iranian and her mother Patricia a British. She is fluent in English and Persian, known for her quintessentiality on interviews at CNN and her steadfastness in compassionate journalism has grafted her personality at the echelons of professional newsmen.

Christiane Amanpour was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Argentina’s first elected female President, Fernandez de Kirchner including Moammar Gadhafi, Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring and our own President M. Buhari

Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. During her time there, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, as an electronic graphics designer. In 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude(means: with "the Highest honor" can be liken to first class). with a B.A. degree in journalism.
Though initially facing resistance from being put on the air due to her accent and dark hair, she first gained notice for her 1985 report on her home nation of Iran, winning the DuPont Award. But it was her historical coverage of the Bosnian crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s that helped make her the internationally recognized correspondent she is today. The world also tuned in to watch her reports during the first war with Iraq, with Amanpour covering other troubled spots as well that included Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, and Afghanistan, among other regions.

Amanpour's reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking the network to a new level of news coverage. Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and other conflict zones. Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity, claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and favoured the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied:

"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing. Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas.

Amanpour has received over forty awards and several recognition worldwide, in 2007 she was the Persian Woman of the Year, Forbes named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". The Feminist eZine puts her as the fifth most influential woman, she’s won Peabody Awards, Emmys, Edward R. Murrow Awards, and, most recently, the CBE, or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, from Queen Elizabeth II.

Christiane Amanpour’s long list of awards and honors is as impressive as it is humbling. The reporting for which Amanpour has been so extensively honored is incisive and hard-hitting, and her commitment to the public’s right to information is unswerving. And yet, she herself is impressively humble, and this humility makes her all the more familiar and engaging. This month, IDA honors her with the Courage Under Fire Award for demonstrating conspicuous bravery and venturing into dangerous territory to pursue and report the truth.

Amanpour explains that danger is not the only threat to her or her profession but “Turn on any station, any radio, any dial and look at the quantity of sensationalism, tabloidism, opinion––much of which is simply ignorance and personal opinion-based, often not on intellectual analysis but based on personal agendas. I personally think that does a disservice to civil society and democracy. If the public cannot expect to get fact-based journalism and intelligent analysis and only relies on somebody’s opinion masquerading as news, that’s a disservice. And that is the definition of journalism in decline."

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."

"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."

"Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital"

By Mr. Successful.

cc lalasticlala

Christiane Amanpour
born 12 January 1958 to Mr. Mahmoud Amanpour an Iranian and her mother Patricia a British. She is fluent in English and Persian, known for her quintessentiality on interviews at CNN and her steadfastness in compassionate journalism has grafted her personality at the echelons of professional newsmen.

Christiane Amanpour was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Argentina’s first elected female President, Fernandez de Kirchner including Moammar Gadhafi, Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring and our own President M. Buhari

Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. During her time there, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, as an electronic graphics designer. In 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude(means: with "the Highest honor" can be liken to first class). with a B.A. degree in journalism.
Though initially facing resistance from being put on the air due to her accent and dark hair, she first gained notice for her 1985 report on her home nation of Iran, winning the DuPont Award. But it was her historical coverage of the Bosnian crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s that helped make her the internationally recognized correspondent she is today. The world also tuned in to watch her reports during the first war with Iraq, with Amanpour covering other troubled spots as well that included Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, and Afghanistan, among other regions.

Amanpour's reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her wide notice while also taking the network to a new level of news coverage. Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and other conflict zones. Because of her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity, claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and favoured the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied:

"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing. Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas.

Amanpour has received over forty awards and several recognition worldwide, in 2007 she was the Persian Woman of the Year, Forbes named her one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". The Feminist eZine puts her as the fifth most influential woman, she’s won Peabody Awards, Emmys, Edward R. Murrow Awards, and, most recently, the CBE, or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, from Queen Elizabeth II.

Christiane Amanpour’s long list of awards and honors is as impressive as it is humbling. The reporting for which Amanpour has been so extensively honored is incisive and hard-hitting, and her commitment to the public’s right to information is unswerving. And yet, she herself is impressively humble, and this humility makes her all the more familiar and engaging. This month, IDA honors her with the Courage Under Fire Award for demonstrating conspicuous bravery and venturing into dangerous territory to pursue and report the truth.

Amanpour explains that danger is not the only threat to her or her profession but “Turn on any station, any radio, any dial and look at the quantity of sensationalism, tabloidism, opinion––much of which is simply ignorance and personal opinion-based, often not on intellectual analysis but based on personal agendas. I personally think that does a disservice to civil society and democracy. If the public cannot expect to get fact-based journalism and intelligent analysis and only relies on somebody’s opinion masquerading as news, that’s a disservice. And that is the definition of journalism in decline."

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."

"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."

"Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital"

By Mr. Successful.

cc lalasticlala