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Sep172025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Africa to halt $120b annual hydrocarbon imports ….Lokpobiri

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Nigeria’s Oil minister, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has reaffirmed Nigeria’s leadership role in advancing Africa’s energy security. This is as he called for deeper regional integration at the Africa Oil Week (AOW) 2025 Ministerial and CEO Leadership Forum. According to a statement by Nneamaka Okafor, Lokpobiri's media aide, the minister stressed that integration remains the most effective strategy to end Africa’s energy poverty, noting that shared infrastructure, harmonized standards, and technical expertise will enable the continent to secure its energy future. He highlighted Africa’s heavy reliance on imports, revealing that the continent spends over $120 billion annually on hydrocarbon imports. “This is capital flight. These funds should remain within Africa to fuel our own ...

Sep112025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Between Comrade Adeyanju’s Big Shoes and Bunu’s Agenda as Nigeria’s No 1 Maritime Worker. BY ASU BEKS.

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For good 8 years , Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, the immediate past President General of the Maritime Workers' Union of Nigeria, MWUN, bestrode Nigeria's maritime landscape like a collosus. He was the No1 Maritime Labour leader in Nigeria. His name sent jitters across Blue Chip Corporate Boardrooms . He was a no nonsense labour leader. His loud voice was heard even beyond the shores of Nigeria . He was fearless, uncompromising. As one prepared for his role, he came equipped with all the virtues of what a good leader should be. His integrity, communication and emotional skills , intelligence, adaptability, courage, vision, resilience and empathy were top notch . These were the qualities which Adeyanju adopted to build trust, motivate his team to navigate through the myriad of challenges he i...

Sep92025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

5000 Itsekiri Graduates Of Novena Varsity Not Part Of Scholarship Beneficiaries- PAP •••We Are Not Owning Fees In Any Institution

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The Presidential Amnesty Programme has said that it is not owing school fees of 5000 students of Itsekiri extraction in Novena University, Ogume, Delta State. The PAP in a statement on Tuesday stated that the agency is not owing fees in Novena or any institution within or outside the country. The agency was reacting to claims by the so-called Office of the Sole Representative of His Royal Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, the Olu of Warri to NNPLC, that the Amnesty Programme is "indebted" to Novena University concerning "all Itsekiri students" who graduated from the institution purportedly under the programme's scholarship scheme. The monarch's agent, Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema, made a curious claim in a statement that the alleged liability made the Olu's palace to announce an in...

Sep52025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

When “August”Failed to Show up For Nigeria’s Shipowners. By Asu Beks.

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The month of August was originally called "Sextilis" in ancient Roman calendar but renamed in honour of Emperor Augustus Caesar in 8 BCE , reflecting his significant military and political achievements, including the conquest of Egypt. Historically, August has also been a month of significant events, from the abolition of slavery in Jamaica to the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Yet for many others, August is a time for summer holidays. The word August comes from the latin augustus, meaning a " venerable ", " consecrated" or " great", a fitting tribute to Emperor Caesar. Back home in Nigeria,August 24 , 1937, was the day the presumed winner of the June 12 , Presidential elections, Late Moshood Abiola, was born .However for Nigerian Shipowners, August was meant to be a month of e...

Aug292025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dennis Otuaro: Mr President’s Eye in the Niger Delta Region. By ASU BEKS .

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Believe it or not, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, does not joke with the Niger Delta. As a shrewd business man and political strategist ,he appreciates the critical role the Niger Delta region could play in the success or failure of his Renewed Hope Agenda. As a region blessed with abundant Oil and Gas reserves , coupled with hundreds of dozens of restive youths who have continued to speak out over years of environmental degredation on account of years of oil exploration and exploitation by successive governments, President Tinubu, like his predecessors , regard the region as the heart beat of Nigeria. "No one jokes with Nigeria's Niger Delta Region which unarguably is Nigeria's cash cow. For as long as oil and gas accounts for over 90 per cent of Nigeria's annual income, this region w...

Aug212025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

LOKPOBIRI: WHY TINUBU PICKED HIM TO LEAD NIGERIA ‘s OIL SECTOR REFORMS

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While the phrase "Czar in the Nation's Oil sector" is not an official title, it is often used informally to refer to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri PhD, who is playing a significant leadership role in Nigeria's oil sector. Since his assumption of office, the nation's narrative within and outside the country has changed with high-level meetings and initiatives aimed at boosting production and attracting investment within the sector. He has interpreted the reforms of the present administration of President Bola Tinubu into reality and such realities are beginning to change the oil sector policy of the present administration and transferring wealth and security to investors and Nigerians at alarge. In less than two years, the nation's oil se...

Aug82025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Dayo Mobereola’s Mad Rush For Gold at NIMASA. BY ASU BEKS.

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Despite our seemingly poor economic fortunes, rising insecurity, high inflation and poverty figures, the last couple of weeks and days have witnessed is a season of victories, laurels and Gold medals for Nigeria and Nigerians. And as usual, the motivation for the celebrations have come from the sporting arena where Nigeria's female soccer team, the super falcons and the female basket ball team , D ' Tigress conquered Africa with their scintillating performances. The victory songs and dances have defied political, ethnic and religious divides. Even the hungry and poor came out to celebrate our victorious girl. This was certainly a great relief for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose administration has come under intense criticism on account of some unpopular policies and decisions. For maj...

Jul282025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BOB MARLEY’S MUSIC AS WEAPON FOR REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE : IMPLICATION FOR A DYSFUNCTIONAL NIGERIA By Emmanuel Gandu

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His songs have not only become indelible consolation melody for the marginalized, but universal struggle anthems and prayer emissaries to Jah. Bob Marley's artistic musical fearlessness and radical ideological commitment to economic and political freedom should become a catalyst for an enduring and a people's vanguard for democratic change from a begger and dysfunctional state to an egalitarian country where no one goes to bed hungry. Whatever happens, Bob Marley though since gone beckons on Nigeriains to revolutionarise the country through democratic change.Marley's smiling benevolence in heaven is a shining sun, a waving palm leaf. He is a string of musical hits which will continue to reverberate in oppressed and suppressed corners of a marginalised Nigeria.] Bob Marley was a re...

Jul122025 by adminNo Comments

Time to Scrap Council For the Regulation of Freight Forwarders? By Asu Beks.

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If there was any iota of doubt that the 2007 Act which gave birth to the Council For the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, CRFFN, ought to have been abrogated last week's judgement by Justice D.E. Osiagor was the final nail on its coffin. The controversial CRFFN Act, No16 was enacted on April 30, 2007.Under the Act,the Council was charged with the responsibility, amongst others, to regulate and control the practice of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria, promote the highest professional standards and competence among members . The passage of the bill and eventual signing into law was however greeted with mixed feelings. The propriety or other wise of the Council came mostly from the key associations in the sector viz; the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, the ...

Jun262025 by Asu BeksNo Comments

UGOCHINYERE CONGRATULATES AGBEDI ON EMERGENCE AS PDP CAUCUS LEADER IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the lawmaker representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency of Imo State, has extended his heartfelt congratulations to Hon. Fred Agbedi on his emergence as the new Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the House of Representatives. Hon. Agbedi, a ranking member from Bayelsa State who chairs the House Committee on FCT Area Councils and Ancillary Matters, was elected late Wednesday during an emergency meeting of PDP lawmakers in the Green Chamber. In a statement issued shortly after the announcement, Hon. Ugochinyere, who also chairs the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), described Agbedi’s emergence as a pivotal moment for the PDP’s resurgence in the National Assembly. “I congratulate my dear colleague and leade...