Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Awka A male adult identified as Mr. Taiwo , truck driver died in a lone fatal crash at about 1828hrs on Friday when a white mark truck without a registration number crashed at immigration junction along Awka-Enugu express way Eyewitness told Crimefacts.News that the crash occurred as a result of lost of control due to excessive speeding by the truck driver. It was gathered total of two male adults were on board including the truck driver who got trapped in the process but later brought out dead and deposited at the Mogue at Amaku teaching hospital by FRSC rescue team from the Sector Command who ensured free flow of traffic while the obstruction is being cleared. Also on ground were the SSA to the Governor on petroleum and Union matters Comr. Peter Nwosuand Men of the Anambra State Fire service with their truck and chemicals to neutralize the inflammable content of the truck. The truck has been lifted and towed off the road. Meanwhile the Sector Commander Federal Road Safety Corps Anambra State, CC.Andrew A. Kumapayi sends his condolences to the deceased family and strongly warns motorists especially truck drivers to desist from excessive speeding and abide by the stipulated speed limits in built-up areas as road traffic Crashes are avoidable.

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari, said that President Muhammadu Buhari never interfered in the opetations of the Corporation. Kyari disclosed this at a media interactive with National Association of Energy Correspondents in Abuja, on Friday. He said that the corporation had the full support of the president to operate effectively for the growth of the industry, ” I can tell you that the privledge we have today in this company of having unfettered control without any distraction or inteference to make decisions and be accountable and responsible for our decisions has never happened until this government. ” I can tell you this because I have been around for 29 years and have worked closely with top management of the NNPC for about 15 years. ” This is the only president who has never asked NNPC to do something. “I have the personal privilege to have access to Mr President, to his private audience and I can tell you that under no circumstances has he controlled what we want to do. “He only wants to know and be sure that what we are doing is in the best interest of the country,” he said He said that migrating to the deregulation of the downstream oil sector was a huge challenge and difficult decision for the president as he understood the pain it would put ordinary Nigerian through. According to him, the president supported the decision because government can no longer afford subsidy with harsh economic impact of COVID-19. The GMD said that the Corporation’s new focus was on gas development as the most resilient source of energy in the energy transition process. ” The only oil and gas that survived during the COVID-19 with minimal negative change was gas. Gas will help the country out of its major challenge of electricity. ” The biggest challenge we have here is to take electricity to homes, industries and to use the resources we have to create that enetgy this country needs. ” Today for two reasons we are not getting electricity because the production is low and we are not able to transmit it to those who need it. ” That means there is bottle neck in transmission and distribution system,” he said. He said that gas had a lot to offer as it created work and economy that was not existing today noting that it could create industry with many other benefits. Kyari maintained that although Nigeria was known as an oil country it is more a gas nation than oil. He assured that the Corporation would continue to work to ensure full gas development in the country for economic growth.

The governor of Ebonyi state, Dave Umahi has ordered the removal of political office holders from Ohaukwu LGA whi refuses to join him in APC. This was contained in a statement by Ugbala Kenneth Igwe, Ph.D Secretary to the State Government, Slighted by Crimefacts.News. He said , “In avowed determination Ebonyi State Government to allow greater participation of Ebonyians in governance, His Excellency the Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Chief David Nweze Umahi, FNSE, FNATE, has approved the removal from office of the following political office holders from Ohaukwu Local Government Area with immediate effect. This followed days after Gov.Umahi’s defection from PDP to APC. “They are: All the Coordinators, All the Executive Assistants, (EAs), All the Senior Technical Assistants, (STAs), All the Technical Assistants, (TAs) (e) All the Liaison Officers and All the Management Committee Members of Development Centres in Ohaukwu LGA “In view of the above, all the affected former officers are directed to handover all the State Government property in their possession to the Secretary to the State Government before the close of work on Monday 23rd November, 2020. “Please ensure strict adherence to this directive, he warned.

Enyinnaya Abaribe, senate minority leader, says the only person from the south-east region in the Aso Villa is a photographer. Abaribe said this on Friday when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels TV. Amid the intense agitation from south-east leaders for Igbo presidency in 2023, Abaribe had said it was non-negotiable for an Igbo person to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. Recently, David Umahi, governor of Ebonyi state, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a result of “injustice.” In reaction, Abaribe who is a member of PDP, said Umahi’s defection is merely an occurrence and will be evaluated properly during the next presidential election. He emphasised the importance of back channels in government, adding that it was the reason for the relevance of Mamman Daura, Buhari’s nephew, in the present administration. “Before, every part of this country was represented in the Aso Villa, so when you want to do government business because sometimes government business is done from back channels, so if you have a problem or they want to do some consultations, you make a call into the Villa, you call to your countryman and say please, can you tell oga this or that so that we can have this talk, there is none today inside the villa. There’s one guy, his name is Sunny, I think he’s a photographer, ” he said. “So, Umahi is going to talk to who? Ok, because he is governor, he can talk to chief of staff, he can go to see the president but what about others?” However, checks by TheCable showed that nine presidential aides are from the south-east zone. They are Francis Anatogu, senior special assistant (SSA) to the president (public sector matters); Nneka Ikejiani, senior technical assistant to the president (delivery unit); Somkele Awa- Kalu, special assistant to the president (research); Tochi Nwachukwu, special assistant to the president (power privitisation) and Nkechi Chukwueke, special assistant to the president (community engagement). Others are Nkoli Anyaoku, special assistant to the president (DCOS); Nonye Ojekwe, special assistant to the president (political matters); Louisa Chinedu-Okeke, special assistant to the president (finance) and Juliet Chikaodili-Nwagu, special assistant to the president (justice sector reforms and international relations). Sunday Aghaeze, better known as Sunny, personal assistant to the president (state photographer), is from Delta state which falls under the south-south zone. Despite being informed of the existence of these presidential aides, Abaribe insisted that there is no “proper person” from the south-east in the presidential villa, saying, “we had access, we do not have that anymore. Of course, you can have low-level people being appointed, but what do they do that you can say these people make a difference in our lives in the south-east?”

After weeks of negotiations and foot- dragging, the Federal Government on Friday accepted the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities that they be exempted from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System . The government also shifted grounds on a number of issues , including the insistence that all the academic staff of the federal universities must be paid through the IPPIS platform . Reading out the communique at the end of a seven – hour negotiation with ASUU members in Abuja , the Minister of Labour and Employment , Senator Chris Ngige, said the government also agreed to ASUU’ s demand to pay their members ’ salary arrears from February to June through the old salary payment platform , Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System . Briefing reporters at the end of the meeting, he described the negotiation as fruitful as the government has decided to shift grounds on the lingering issues that have kept students out of the classroom for several months. Ngige noted that in its bid to resolve the impasse with ASUU, the sum of N15 billion from the amount offered by the government would be for more funds to revitalise the universities. He explained that the fund was in addition to the N20 billion paid earlier, making it a total of N35 billion committed as revitalisation fund by the government. The minister gave an update on the visitation panel to the universities, noting that the panel would be inaugurated next week. He also spoke about the payment system, as the union had rejected the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) of the government. Ngige noted that representatives of the government and ASUU met over the University Transparency Account System (UTAS) proposed by the union, but it was work in progress. He stated that the Ministry of Labour and Employment, as well as the Ministry of Education, would use the previous payment platform of the government before it introduced IPPIS to pay the withheld salaries of the lecturers under strict monitoring. The ASUU president, who also addressed reporters, acknowledged that the government has made some new offers to the union and some progress have been made. He, however, said the union leaders would report to their organs and get back to the government on the position of their members.

Ibe Pascal Arogorn The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has commenced investigation into the killing of Newspaper Vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke in Abuja by a security aide of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Crimefacts.News had reported on Thursday how House of Representatives speaker’s aide shot a newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke in Abuja. In a statement by Peter Afunanya, Ph.D Public Relations Officer, Department of State Services, he confirmed that the suspect is one of its personnel (DSS) deployed to the Speaker’s Convoy as a security detail. And as already stated by the Speaker that he has been suspended from his Convoy, the Service has further withdrawn him from the assignment. The statement read part, “As part of its disciplinary procedures in the instance, he has been taken into detention, he confirmed. “In addition, the Service has opened a detailed investigation into the matter. While it pledges to be transparent and accountable in handling this, it is liaising with appropriate authorities to achieve this objective. Speaking further “The Service condoles with the family of the deceased and his loved ones. It has promised a thorough investigation into the circumstances that led to the unfortunate incident and will surely keep to this,, “he concluded.