READ: Gov Ambode's Comments on Bloody Hausa-Yoruba Clash in Mile 12

             Lagos state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has reacted to the deadly Hausa-Yoruba clash that erupted within the communities in Ketu-Mile 12 area of the state.Today, I have just been informed that some miscreants and criminal elements have exploited that dispute to cause a breakdown of law and order within the area. These types of clashes do occur from time to time in a multi-ethnic city like Lagos and the government has responded appropriately. In order to further restore calm, I have ordered that Mile 12 Market be temporarily closed and urged traders, community leaders and other stakeholders to eschew violence; be calm and law abiding. Furthermore, I have also ordered a temporary restriction of movement in the following streets; Oniyanri Street, Maidan Street, Agiliti 1 and Agiliti 2,” he said.

         The public is hereby assured that we will not shy away from our responsibilities to protect lives and property and we will deal decisively with those criminal elements who fan the embers of ethnic strive. Let me assure Lagosians that the state is home to every tribe and ethnic group and nobody should give this disturbance any ethnic coloration whatsoever. Every law abiding citizens should go about their normal businesses,” Governor Ambode said.

FG to Carry a Major Overhaul of NNPC Operations Next Week - Kachikwu

            The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has announced a major shake up in NNPC Operations that has never happened in 20 years.

                                                                  

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu

     

The Federal Government has said it is going to carry out a major overhaul the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation next week. The revelation was made today at the Shell Production and Exploration Oloibiri Lecture Series  (Thursday) by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu.

               He revealed that the planned overhaul in the national oil firm had never happened at the corporation in the past 20 years and will address governance issues in the oil and gas sector as well as at the NNPC.  Kachikwu said: “We are starting first with simple governance issues, those that are not contentious…, that are very rapid and that deals a lot with the transformation of the national oil company.

              For the national oil company, a lot of work is going on, I am sure some of you have seen the effects but within the next one week, we are going to be announcing some really major overhaul of the system, one that hasn’t been done in over 20 years. The effect of that would be to quite frankly unbundle the huge company into four to five main operational zones; the upstream, downstream, midstream, refining and, of course, every other company that is trending to the venture group.”