₦airaland Forum

President Muhammadu
Buhari has appointed
Emmanuel Kachikwu as the
new Group Managing
Director (GMD) of the
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC).
Mr. Kachikwu, who was the
Executive Vice Chairman and
General Counsel of Exxon-
Mobil (Africa), is to take over
from Joseph Dawha, who was
appointed by former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
A first class graduate of law
from the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka, and the
Nigerian Law School, Mr.
Kachikwu hails from Onicha-
Ugbo in Delta State.
The new NNPC Chief
Executive also holds Masters
and Doctorate Degrees in Law
from the Harvard Law
School.
He began his working career
with the Nigerian/American
Merchant Bank before
moving on to Texaco Nigeria
Limited from where he
joined Exxon-Mobil.
A statement by Presidential
Spokesman, Femi Adesina,
said the president has also
approved the appointment of
Umaru Danbatta as the new
Executive Vice Chairman and
Chief Executive of the
Nigerian Communications
Commission, NCC.
His appointment as Executive
Vice Chairman of the NCC is
for five years in the first
instance.
Mr. Danbatta, who holds a
Doctorate Degree in
Electronic Engineering, takes
over from Eugene Juwah
whose tenure expired on July 29, 2015.
Mr. Juwah had been granted a
controversial appointment by the
outgone administration for a second
tenure before the expiration of his first
tenure.
The new NCC Chief Executive’s other
academic qualifications include a
Bachelors Degree in Electronic
Engineering and Telecommunications as
well as a Masters Degree in the same
field.
He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers and has had a meritorious
career in which he rose to become
Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Electronics at Bayero University, Kano,
specializing
in Telecommunications Engineering and
Information and Communications
Technology.
Before his new appointment, Danbatta
held top management and leadership
positions at different times including
Head of Department, Dean Of Faculty,
Director, Centre for Information
Technology, Chairman of the Nigerian
Society of Engineers (Kano Branch),
Deputy Vice Chancellor and Acting Vice
Chancellor.

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
(NDLEA), Abia Command, on Monday, arrested a
hard drug dealer in Aba.
The Commander, NDLEA, Abia State Command,
Mr Bamidele Akingbade, said the suspect,
Onyebuchi Agbo, who claimed to be an intra-city
bus driver, was caught with 20.3 grams of
cocaine, 27.5 grams of heroin and some wraps of
cannabis.
He said that the suspect was caught with over
100 small wraps of cocaine and heroin which he
sells at N100 and N50, respectively.
The commander said that Onyebuchi will be
charged to court this week but would appear
before a judge at the end of their vacation.
“For us to process his trial, we have to file a
charge now. The courts are open with the other
officials but the judges are not there at the
Federal High Courts because they are on
vacation.
“So they are going to take the charge and we
can now hold him in custody until the courts
resumes. But as soon as the courts resume, he
will be arraigned with 17 other drug suspects in
Abia.
“We are going to use the services of the
vacation judge in Port Harcourt to start their trial
process and to remand them pending the
resumption of the Federal High Courts,”
Akingbade said.
Onyebuchi said he was forced by hardship to
return to selling hard drugs for an Aba-based
drug courier named Agbo after quitting the
business which took him to prison in 2008.
“I used to sell drugs but I left it since for a long
time now. I have been arrested before and the
person I was selling for left me to go to prison in
2008.
“When I was freed from prison in 2010, I left the
business. I came here because last two months
Agbo, a drug courier in Aba, called me to come
to his place and sell market for him.
“So he said he will beat me up when he sees me
and today he saw me with his henchmen along
Ohanku road and they started beating me with
matchets.
“I ate the money last two months and ran away.
He was the one who called me to come and sell
drugs for him.
“They came today and beat me and handed me
over to the NDLEA. It is Agbo that sells the
drugs,” he confessed.
Agbo, who admitted taking the cannabis, had
white foam in his mouth while talking with the
NDLEA officers.




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