Militants threaten blow-up of more oil installations

By Egufe Yafugborhi 

WARRI—NIGER Delta Avengers, the militant group which claimed responsibility for blowing up the Forcados Terminal Pipeline in Delta State, recently, has served notice of attacks on more oil installations in the region until the Federal Government addresses its grievances. 

The group vowed: “Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Forcados terminal is our latest casualty. There are many more to follow in the days and weeks ahead.” The group, in a statement obtained in Warri, said that it was prepared to reduce Nigeria’s daily oil production and supply to zero barrel if its agitation was ignored. “The same factor that brought about the Niger Delta arms struggle is fast resurfacing as the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is poised to exterminate Niger Delta people for being benevolent enough to allow the nation’s mono-economy thrive on our oil. “We are being oppressed, pushed to the wall on various fronts, which is why we have picked up the challenge to be the outlaws this government will have to contend with till daily production of oil is reduced to zero in the Niger Delta, so government can use the oil from the North to run Nigeria’s mono-economy. “We believe that Nigeria can practice true federalism where our resources will be controlled by us and used for our own good. The reverse is the case today, where the goose that lays the golden egg is killed along with the egg,” they said. 

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We are down but not out – PDP ministers

By Ben Agande, 

Abuja. The PDP Ministers Forum yesterday said though the People’s Democratic Party is presently down because it lost the 2015 elections, the party would bounce back again to reclaim its place of pride in the nation’s political landscape. In a remark at the opening session of the Forum’s maiden meeting in Abuja, the chairman of the forum and former Minister for Special Duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki said despite deliberate attempt to change the narrative on the tremendous achievements of the PDP government in the last 16 years, members of the forum are determined to defend and protect the achievements of the PDP government. The meeting which started at about 12pm had in attendance PDP ministers from 1999 till 2015.

WAEC says it is perfecting migration into CBT examination mode

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Tuesday said it was perfecting plans to migrate into the Computer Based Test (CBT) mode for its examinations. The Registrar of council, Dr Iyi Uwadiae, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

According to him, the council is considering all variables available to ensure that the entire process is not messed up. He, however, noted that the council was not in a hurry to migrate because the council basically conducts achievement tests and not selection tests. “We have looked at the issue of CBT and found that this is not a selection test, where one can deal with paper and pencil.

“With that, you can easily migrate to CBT

I will not resign as PDP chair- Modu Sheriff

 …BEGS AGGRIEVED MEMBERS TO SHEATH THEIR SWORDS

 BEN AGANDE,

Modu Sheriff 

 ABUJA. Former governor of Borno state, Senator Ali Modu Sherrif on Monday said he would not succumb to the widespread calls by some members of the party that he should resign his position while pleading with aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party over his emergence as the national chairman of the party to shield their swords and work with him towards repositioning the party for a greater height. Alimodu-Sheriff Sheriff who made the statement after he formally took over as the chairman of the party, promised that he would work with all relevant organs of the party to ensure that the party conduct a credible congress and convention that would be a pride to all Nigerians. However, he said he would not succumb to the widespread calls by some members of the party that he should resign his position, noting that doing so would not be in the interest of the party, especially members of the National Executive Committee who drafted him to reposition the party. He was reacting to the call by the PDP Rescue Group which on sunday afternoon called on him to resign his position as his emergence was not acceptable to the generality of the people. According to