Today's Headlines:Tinubu Not Afraid To Fire Anyone_Ngelale;Nigeria Loses $4m Daily To Oil Theft_NSA

Tinubu Not Afraid to Fire Anyone_ Ngelale

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President Bola Tinubu will not tolerate failure from either of his recently inaugurated ministers and will not hesitate to fire anyone.

His spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, stated this on Monday when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

According to Ngelale, the president spent the months after winning the February 25 election setting clear goals for each sector.

He said, “The President has set the benchmarks. The question now is about enforcement, and the President has shown, as he did during his time in Lagos State as governor, that he is not someone who is afraid to fire anybody.

He is not somebody that is afraid to levy quick sanctions to ensure that they get the results that he wants, because, ultimately, if this administration fails, they will not say a minister failed or a set of ministers failed. They will say President Bola Tinubu failed, and he will not accept failure.”

Nigeria Loses $4m Daily To Oil Theft_NSA

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Ahigh-powered team dispatched by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to assess crude oil theft in the Niger Delta has uncovered illegal connections where Nigeria loses the product worth million of dollars monthly in Abia State.

The site in Owaza had many illegal connections to a major crude pipeline, a video of the finding made available to The Nation yesterday showed.

The team also carried out an aerial assessment of nine other Niger Delta oil-producing communities – Bille, Azuzuama, Ahoada, Rumuekepe Ebocha, Abacheke, Egbema, Ohaji, and Koko communities of Abia, Rivers, Bayelsa, Imo and Delta states.

Defence Minister Muhammed Badaru told reporters after a closed-door meeting with Rivers State Governor Similaye Fubara in Port Harcourt that the discovery was made on Saturday.

Service chiefs, Ministers of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri; and Gas, Ekperipe Ekpo; National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, and the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited(NPCL) Mele Kyari are members of the delegation.

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Diri Eulogises Alagoa, Historian At 90

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Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has said through his literary works and exemplary lifestyle, foremost historian, Emeritus Professor Ebiegberi Alagoa, brought honour to the Ijaw nation and Nigeria.

Speaking in Yenagoa on Saturday during the 90th birthday celebration of the iconic historian, Governor Diri said his contributions to the development of the Ijaw nation, Bayelsa and Nigeria were remarkable, noting that his name has been written indelibly in the sands of time.

A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as saying that at 90, Alagoa is an accomplished scholar not because of his literary works but also because of the success in raising his children.

Diri thanked God for not only keeping the nonagenarian celebrant but for also granting him good health and prayed for more fruitful years ahead.

Describing his Nembe-Ijaw ancestry as a land blessed with intellectuals that have distinguished themselves in various fields, Diri however expressed concern that Nembe had in recent times been in the news for the wrong reasons and urged the leaders to do more to restore peace to their area.

Tinubu Deserves Kudos For Shunning BRICS– VON DG

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The director general of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Mr Osita Okechukwu, said President Bola Tinubu deserved commendation for not applying to join the BRICS economic group.

At the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa, the bloc admitted Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE among other intending developing countries into its folds, thus fuelling speculations that Nigeria’s application was rejected for not meeting some crucial membership criteria.

But, in a statement yesterday in Abuja, Okechukwu, also a founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC), said that Nigeria was better off maintaining its decades-old diplomatic standpoint as a non-aligned.

Stressing that he was thrilled when Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, cleared the air and said, “So far, we have not applied for the membership of BRICS. And it is majorly informed by the fact that my principal, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a true democrat that believes in consensus building.”

Okechukwu stated: “Whereas one has nothing against Brazil, Russia, India, China nor our brothers South Africa that make up the BRICS; however Nigeria stands to benefit hugely if we maintain our age-old standpoint of multilateral diplomacy.”

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