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r Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, says the Federal Government is working on the establishment of a national shipping line to ensure the maximum exploitation of the potential of the maritime industry.
The minister said this in a keynote address he delivered at the 14th Maritime Seminar for Judges organised by the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute.
This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by Amaechi’s media office. The minister added, “The present administration is looking into ways of encouraging the establishment of a national shipping line to ensure the maximum exploitation of the potential of our maritime sector.

“The Federal Government is doing a lot towards improving the process of doing business in Nigeria, especially in the maritime sector. The Federal Government’s effort towards the facilitation of trade includes the modernisation of transport infrastructure such as the establishment of deep sea ports to attract the patronage of our seaports by modern mega ships and the establishment of dry ports to decongest the seaports and facilitate the expeditious evacuation of cargo from the seaports among others.”

The minister suggested that maritime laws should be made compulsory courses in tertiary institutions.

In his address, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, said the seminar had contributed immensely to deepening the synergy between the judiciary and the maritime sector.
He added, “The Nigerian judiciary is ready to deepen this synergy as part of our wider reform efforts that would reposition our judiciary for better justice delivery and retain our place as one of the best judicial institutions in the world.

“In furtherance of its drive to ensure a quick dispensation of justice, the Nigerian judiciary remains similarly committed to the use of a multi-track, multi-modal justice delivery system that includes a more robust adoption of alternative dispute resolutions as a veritable medium of settling disputes.”
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The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has announced plans for its biennial forum slated for June 2, 2016, in Abuja.

The group said the 2016 edition would focus on the development of an innovative approach to address the challenges in the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria.
According to a statement issued on Monday, the group said the forum with the theme, “Medicines’ Security and National Self- Sufficiency: Maximising Medicines,” has been carefully developed to align with the government’s policy thrust which advocates using Nigerian solutions for Nigerian problems.

The statement said the keynote address would be delivered by the PMG-MAN Chairman, Mr. Okey Akpa; while Dr. Mark Abani, who is the Non-Executive Director of Crown Agents and Lead Consultant of MSCA Projects, would be the guest speaker. Also expected at the event are the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Industry, Senator Sam Egwu.

The statement partly read, “Policy experts and health strategists have suggested that this innovative multi-stakeholder forum, as well as the development of the networks, structures and processes that would follow it, would mark a fresh and innovative model on how medicines are provided for Nigerians.

“Historically, providing adequate access to high-quality health care for Nigerians has been one of the most intractable challenges for the Federal Government and other important stakeholders involved in national health care provision. Although some progress has been made recently, there are still significant barriers to the provision of optimum health care for the average Nigerian. This is evidenced by the relevant health indices such as life expectancy, maternal mortality ratio and infant mortality rate which are still relatively poor.”
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Recent attacks on oil pipelines by militants in the Niger Delta region caused Nigeria’s crude oil and condensate production to drop by almost 50 per cent from the start of 2016 to around 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd), an official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed.

Speaking on the heels of fresh attacks on oil and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta within the last few days, the official told Platts that “the waves of attack on virtually [most] oil pipelines and production facilities in the western division of the Niger Delta have crippled operations there. “We estimate total production losses to be around one million bpd, so we are currently down to 1.1 million bpd,” he said.

Renewed militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta has resurfaced after years of relative calm achieved with the introduction of the amnesty programme, pushing the country’s output to more than 20-year low.

According to the NNPC, production was averaging around 2.2 million bpd at the beginning of the year, but minister of state for petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, had, in mid- May, disclosed that production had plummeted to 1.4 million bpd. More attacks had since then been carried out on oil infrastructure by the militants, pushing output further down.

Currently, four Nigerian crude export grades, namely Qua Iboe, Bonny Light, Brass River and Forcados, are under force majeure as a direct result of the militants’ attacks, except for Qua Iboe.

These attacks on oil and gas facilities have increased largely due to a new militant group that has emerged in the region known as the Niger Delta Avengers. The group has claimed on Twitter that it attacked a gas and crude oil pipeline belonging to state oil firm, NNPC, despite the presence of government troops guiding the facilities.

“At 11:45pm on Thursday @Niger Delta Avengers blew up other #NNPC Gas and Crude trunkline close to Warri,” Niger Delta Avengers tweeted.

An NNPC spokesman said a team of investigators was being put together to verify the claim by the group. “If it was in the Warri area, I don’t think there is any new pipeline that has not been breached by the militants. But we will investigate,” the spokesman said. The militant group also restated its warnings to oil firms to close down their operations in the region, threatening to unleash more devastating attacks. “Oil companies and Nigeria military, watch out something big is about to happen and it will shock the whole world,” it further warned.

The new militant group also said it had rejected a peace move launched by the Nigerian government on Thursday to end the violence in the region, demanding instead for “a sovereign state, not pipeline contracts.”

LEADERSHIP recalls that the federal government and the nine states of the Niger Delta region had agreed Thursday to jointly raise a security team, which would be made up of the ex-militants, to curb growing militancy.

“The Niger Delta governors must be involved in providing lasting solutions to the resurgence of pipeline vandalism and there is urgent need to create business opportunities for the locals in the region,” Kachikwu had said during the meeting. He also called for an end to violence in the region, adding that government was committed to working with Niger Delta stakeholders to stop the recent upsurge in attacks.

Troops avert damage to oil pipelines in Bayelsa – Army The Nigerian Army says its troops on Sunday averted attacks on oil pipelines located at Gulobokri and Eweleso communities in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa.

The acting Director of Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman confirmed this in a statement issued in Abuja. Usman said the attack was averted by the troops on patrol of areas around Brass in Bayelsa.

According to Usman, the patrol team has an encounter with some armed militants in two speed boats with intent to blow up Nigerian Agip Oil Company pipeline at Gulobokri.

“In the early hours of today, May 29, troops of 343 Artillery Regiment of 2 Brigade, 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, carried out patrol within the general area of Gulobokri and Eweleso. ‘’This was around Brass area in Bayelsa State.

“During the exercise, the troops encountered some armed militants who opened fire on the patrol team. “The troops responded with overwhelming superior firepower and as a result, the suspected criminals sped off from the area with many of them sustaining gunshot wounds.

“Unfortunately, a personnel of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) attached to the team sustained gunshot wound and has since been evacuated and he is in a stable condition,’’ Usman said. Usman also said that another patrol team of the same unit of 82 Division, Nigerian Army, averted another attack on an oil facility at Perigbene House Boat in Bayelsa. He said the troops on patrol to the area encountered militants in three speed boats also on a mission to attack another critical infrastructure in the area.

Usman said the troops killed most of the militants while others escaped with gunshot injuries.

He said the casualty figure on militants could not be ascertained as it was raining heavily adding that the raging storm could not allow troops to go on in pursuit of the escaping criminals.
Usman added that a mop-up operation had been organised for those militants that escaped with gunshot wounds adding that they might be receiving treatment in the neighbouring communities.
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The National Space Research and Development Agency – saddled with the responsibility of carrying out a scientific observation of the moon, which is the nearest celestial object to the earth – says it has successfully calculated and predicted that the appearance of the first astronomical lunar crescent for the month of June 2016 will commence on June 5, 2016.

In astronomy, a crescent is the shape of the lit side of the moon that appears to be less than half illuminated by the sun as seen by the viewer.

The Head, Media and Corporate Communications of the agency, Dr. Felix Ale, said in a statement that the first appearance of the moon could not be sighted with naked eyes except with the aid of a charge coupled device imaging, an astronomical telescope or any other optical astronomy instrument. “Thus, the proper sighting of the crescent with naked eyes signifies the beginning of Ramadan,” he said.

He explained that the first astronomical lunar crescent would appear in Nigeria on June 5, 2016 between 5:12pm and 7:37pm, with Kaduna and Sokoto being the first to witness the first young lunar crescent from about 5:12pm to 7:33pm and 7:21pm respectively, while it would be sighted last in Jos, Plateau State between 6:02pm and 7:14pm.

“All other states of the federation will experience the first lunar crescent between the estimated time of 5:12pm and 7:37pm on June 5, 2016,” he added.

Ale said results released by the agency showed precise dates, appearance time of first crescent, sunset, as well as moon set time for all the state capitals of the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
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Olalekan Adetayo, Olufemi Atoyebi, Mudiaga
Affe, Ihuoma Chiedozie, Etim Ekpimah,
Armstrong Bakam, Enyioha Opara, and
Gibson Achonu
President Muhammadu Buhari and state
governors have ruled out elaborate
celebrations to mark this year’s Democracy
Day and their one year in office.

Findings by Saturday PUNCH showed that
this decision was not unconnected with the
current downturn in the nation’s economic
fortunes.

Before now, past administrations usually
marked May 29, Nigeria’s Democracy Day,
with fanfare. This year’s event is particularly
special as it is also doubling as the first
year in office of President Buhari and many
state governors.

But it was learnt that tomorrow’s event
would be without any fanfare.
Buhari was inaugurated on May 29, 2015 to
succeed former President Goodluck
Jonathan, having won the March 28, 2015
presidential election on the platform of the
All Progressives Congress.

Since the return of democracy on May 29,
1999 with the inauguration of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo, May 29 of
every year has been observed as the
nation’s Democracy Day.


One week-long activities are usually lined up
every year to commemorate the day.
One of our correspondents however learnt
on Thursday that such programmes would
not hold this year due to the economic crisis
facing the country.

President Buhari had recently explained the
shabby economic situation in the country at
the second National Executive meeting of the
All Progressives Congress in Abuja.
Buhari had said that the fall of oil price was
a disaster and as a result, 27 of the 36
states of the federation were finding it
difficult to pay salaries.

It was further learnt that to commemorate
the day, the President would only make a
nationwide anniversary broadcast on
Sunday.

The President is expected to use the
opportunity of the broadcast to list the
achievements of his administration in the
last one year and solicit further support from
Nigerians.

He had earlier promised to disclose the
amount so far recovered by his
administration from looters in the speech.
The second programme for the day, it was
further learnt, would be an
interdenominational anniversary church
service that is slated for the National
Ecumenical Centre, Abuja.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is expected to
lead top government officials and friends of
the nation to the service being organised by
the Office of the Secretary to the Government
of the Federation.

“It is a low-key celebration. The major item
on the agenda is the President’s broadcast
to the nation,” a Presidency source said.
The government had on Wednesday declared
Monday, May 30, a public holiday to
commemorate the Democracy Day, which
falls on Sunday.

Also, many governors have said there will
be no elaborate celebrations to mar their
one year in office.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that the governors
shunned elaborate celebrations because of
the huge amount of money required to fund
the activities that might be lined up for the
anniversary.

It was learnt that logistics, which is key to
the celebrations, would likely gulp about 40
per cent of the money if the governors chose
to make the celebrations elaborate.

According to findings, the governors’
decision came as a result of the decline in
the federal allocations to the states following
the fall in the international price of crude oil.
The Special Adviser on Media and
Communication to the Bauchi State
Governor, Alhaji Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, told
one of our correspondents that the state
government would only do what is needful.
Mohammed said, “Anything showy and
extravagant will not be part of the one year
anniversary. Activities lined up for the
anniversary have been planned with the
dictates of the austere moment.”


Also, the Niger State Governor, Alhaji
Abubakar Sani Bello, said the state would
not engage in any elaborate celebration.
Bello, who spoke through his Senior Special
Assistant on Media, Mr. Jide Orintunsin,
said, “We are all aware of the economic
hardship the country is facing; we have to
be mindful of that before we do anything.”
According to him, anything that will not yield
positive result to the people of the state will
be avoided.


Imo State, which used to celebrate
Democracy Day with fanfare when the
economy was stable, had said that it would
not pop champagne or any other wine like it
used to.


The state Commissioner for Information,
Youth and Sports, Chidi Ibe, told one of our
correspondents that the current economic
reality in the country had forced the state to
opt for a low-key celebration.


He said, “When the economy used to be
stable, we celebrated Democracy Day with a
lot of money and fanfare. We decorated
everywhere, placed adverts on the pages of
the newspapers. It was either that the state
government congratulated the President or
the ministries felicitated with the governor.
“But this time around, it won’t be like that.
All the fanfare associated with the
celebration in the past cannot take place this
time around.”


Cross River was among the states which got
the lowest allocation from the Federal
Government in the last two months. Its
Internally Generated Revenue is about
N500m per month.


Because of the paucity of fund, the state has
decided to organise a town hall meeting to
answer people’s questions, instead of
throwing a big party to mark Governor Ben
Ayade’s first year in office.


The Special Assistant to the Governor on
Media, Mr. Christian Ita, said rather than
throwing a big party, Governor Ayade had
concluded plans to have a “city hall
meeting” to answer questions from the
public.


He said, “No real celebration. For us, the
employment that we have been able to
create is worth more than any celebration.
There will only be a city hall meeting where
members of the public will interact with the
governor.”
For the Oyo State Government, this is the
time for reflection.


Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s Special Adviser
on Media and Communication, Mr. Yomi
Layinka, told one of our correspondents in
Ibadan on Friday that there was no basis for
elaborate celebration because of the financial
status of the state.


Layinka said, “We have several reasons to
celebrate, but it will be low-key. The
governor will hold meeting with stakeholders
on the journey so far and the challenges
facing the state while also rallying support
for his government.


“We are all aware of the financial situation in
the state and the general economy of the
nation. This is the time for reflection, instead
of elaborate celebration.”


Meanwhile, the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi, and his Akwa Ibom State
counterpart, Udom Emmanuel, were specific
on how to mark their first one year in office.
The two governors said they planned to
mark the anniversary with thanksgivings in
the church. The Chief Press Secretary to the
Enugu State Governor, Mr. Uwakwe Abugu,
told one of our correspondents that the
thanksgiving would hold at the Michael
Okpara Square, after which the governor
would address the people.


The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for
Information and Communications, Mr.
Aniekan Umana, said whether thanksgiving
would be loud or low-key was insignificant
as praises to God could not be quantified.

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The Lagos State government has announced a
collaboration with Google to provide digital
skills training for 50,000 students of Lagos
State tertiary institutions.

Announcing the pact in his office, the special
adviser on education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh,
said the three-month training would be open to
students of the Lagos State University (LASU),
Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu;
Michael Otedola College of Primary Education
(MOCPED), Epe; Adeniran Ogunsanya College of
Education (AOCOED), Ijanikin; and the Lagos
State College of Health Sciences, and other
interested members of the public.

“We are trying to position our students to
function in the 21st Century and digital skills are
important to us. The number of students we will
be training is 50,000. We are confident that if
we give Lagosians skills to complete, they’ll do
wonderful things,” he said.

Bank-Olemoh added that students that do very
well in the training would be selected as Google
trainers and would help the communication
company to implement future training
programmes.

Country Manager for Google, Mrs Juliet
Ehimuan-Chiazor said the training is coming at
the right time given the potential of the Internet
to generate income.

“Everyone needs digital skills. It is really
important that tertiary institutions incorporate
digital training into their curriculum.
“A recent McKenzie report states that fro
m 2013
to 2020, the Internet would contribute 300billion
dollars to the GDP. This training will span three
months leveraging on the ICT facilities in the
various institutions,” she said.

Mrs Ehimuan-Chiazor said the modules will
focus on gaining the basic digital skills, how to
run a business online, social media, online
marketing, and the like.


Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and
Public Affairs Manager, Google, said free
registration is open for the training on a
designated website, www.digifyafrica.com.

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Ovie Okpare, Warri The Ijaw Youths Congress on Thursday warned the President Muhammadu Buhari- led Federal Government not to contemplate arresting former President Goodluck Jonathan over the ongoing probe of massive fraud and embezzlement alleged to have taken place under his administration. The youths, who converged at the Wellington Hotel Effurrun, Delta State, for the 2016 annual Major Isaac Boro anniversary celebration with the theme, “The ideals of Adaka Boro and the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta: The way forward,” criticised the present administration for limiting its anti- corruption campaign only to the Jonathan regime.

The IYC president, Udengs Eradiri, urged the APC-led Federal Government to probe the Halliburton bribery case under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, if it wanted Nigerians to take its anti-corruption campaign seriously. On the renewed militancy in the region, Udengs, said the opening of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, for academic activities was the first condition for a roundtable discussion with the Federal Government towards ending ongoing militants’ onslaught in the region.
Eradiri said, “People have started discussing. There was a meeting in Abuja yesterday (Wednesday) but I told them that such a meeting would not work.
“If they want us to talk, they must first open the Maritime University and start admitting students, then we would now sit and talk. The same issues for which Adaka Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa were killed are the same issues the Avengers are raising.
“There are no Avengers anywhere. Settle these issues and the avengers would fizzle away.”
Prominent rights activist, Tony Uranta, who also spoke at the occasion said, “Isaac Boro and Ken Saro-Wiwa died fighting for the emancipation of the Niger Delta, later we had Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and others. But because Tompolo was taken out, new faces have come up.”
Uranta called on Buhari to reassure Niger Delta youths that the amnesty programme would not be cancelled if the peace in the region was to be sustained, noting that there were many beneficiaries who had not gone on training.
He said the cancellation of the programme would further throw the region into another rounds of militancy which would negatively affect the nation’s already dwindling economy.
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