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  Fear grips NNPC as Dangote Struggles to get approval to operate uncompleted refinery …safety concerns mount. The Dangote Refinery, a significant undertaking in Nigeria, is enmeshed in new controversy. This time, there is tension between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and owner of the Dangote Group, which has sparked concerns over the safety, quality, and ethics surrounding the refinery. Inside sources have informed us that Alhaji Aliko Dangote has applied for a license to operate, which is the last step of approval before any refinery can start any form of production but NNPC, the regulatory body has hesitated to provide this license due to safety concerns, because the refinery remains uncompleted. He also approached the NNPC to purchase crude but the NNPC declined saying they cannot sell crude to a refinery that is uncompleted. It is now alleged that Dangote is trying to source Nigeria’s crude through trading houses whi...

  By Seyi Bakare  THIS, it seems, is the season of propaganda by the lieutenants of Chief Gbenga Daniel, a former governor of Ogun State and senator representing Ogun East in the Red Chamber. The target is Governor Dapo Abiodun, and the aim is to paint him black and robe the senator in spotless white. The essay, “An open letter to Prince Dapo Abiodun,” written by one Kazeem Adenuga, an entity who claims, for strategic reasons of course, to be “from Iperu,” Governor Abiodun’s home town, is just one out of many darts aimed at the governor. The plot, in case you have missed the memo, is to suggest that even the governor’s flesh and blood are berating him on behalf of Daniel, a politician versed in the art of treachery.  Our writer, “an indigene of Iperu, a member of the APC and someone privileged to know to some extent, the relationship between you and the former Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel (OGD),” wants the world to believe that Daniel it was who had “deployed his politi...

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has come under heavy criticism over his unguided utterances in Iseyin Oyo state, where he ordered crowned kings to stand up and accord him and the Governor respect. .  In a viral video on Sunday morning, Erelu Oodua, HRH Mabel Tinuola Onaneye described the action of the former president as "embarrassment to the royal institution, which she holds in high esteem and protects with all her strength , stressing that "Baba Obasanjo desecrated our highly respected culture and traditions by ordering our highly revered kings around as if they are high " boys".  Erelu Onaneye bitterly expressed her displeasure over what she claimed to be " unwarranted attack on the custodians of our culture and traditions , by a former president, who has no value to add to the Yoruba race .   In her words " I hardly pass my message via video, but this is very critical , die to the unwarranted attack on our royal institution by baba Obasanjo. It w...

By    Olaniyi Ajibola  The raging controversy regarding the demolition of an illegal structure in Ijebu-ode, supposedly belonging to the family of Otunba Gbenga Daniel, the former Governor of Ogun State has continued to generate reactions across the country and beyond. At first, the potency of the propaganda machine of the Daniels elicited some level of sympathy in some quarters, especially from those who were not familiar with the personality of the former Governor and who based their judgement on what they read on social media, mainly from his foot soldiers. However, little sympathy was short lived, when facts began to unfold as to how the former Governor and Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District brazenly violated Nigeria's extant laws with regard to business registration for lawful operation as enshrined in the Company and Allied Matters Act of 2020. Perhaps, the most appalling of Daniel's manipulative tendencies is how he and his wife continued to deceive...

       The 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery is yet to begin production after the August commencement date, earlier announced by the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote. While delivering his speech at the official commissioning of the refinery by former President Muhammadu Buhari in May, he said, “Your excellencies, distinguished guests, our first product will be in the market before the end of July or beginning of August this year.” However, no drop of refined petroleum product from the refinery has hit the market weeks after the promised production deadline, according to findings by  The PUNCH . Spokesperson for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Garba Deen in June, said that the company would cut down its fuel imports programme in August, once the Dangote Refinery began to push out refined petroleum products latest August. A top source among the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria also confirmed that NNPCL had cut down importat...

In what one would term advanced yahoo yahoo or creative 419, Africa’s former richest man has perfected the art of fooling Nigeria’s political leaders in Africa’s largest economy, and it has successfully allowed him to hold Nigeria’s economy to ransom. The first observation is how every successive president would meet with him in advance of getting sworn into office, as if Nigeria’s future or economic well-being is in the hands of this highly sophisticated yahoo yahoo businessman. His first move after every election is to invite his favorite American friend (pawn) to the presidency, Mr. Bill Gates who gullibly follows him to the Villa for presidential visits, it’s like a con man dropping names to build influence These political leaders are very impressed and influenced by the presence of one of the world’s most powerful men coming to visit them. Dangote then uses this to build both access and influence with the administration. Bill Gates is the pawn. Maybe it’s a game they are playing t...

By Eniolorunda Michael  CHARACTER, say the Yoruba, is a flame. It cannot be hidden. Because appearances can be deceptive, the Yoruba say you cannot determine a person’s character from his looks (oju o se fi m’owa eda), the same thought that the Bard of Avon expressed in Macbeth, where King Duncan, enquiring about the execution of a thane, says “there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” If you have ever had to engage questions of the darkness of the human mind, like the British Nobel Laureate William does in the epochal novel Lord of the Flies, you cannot help but see how certain persons, in placing themselves on a pedestal above their peers, actually only succeed in hastening their own tragic fall. Which brings us to the ongoing drama of the absurd in Ogun State where a serial blackmailer and turncoat, Wale Adedayo, is being hailed as a hero by certain pernicious individuals. Adedayo, the chairman of Ijebu East Local Government and member of the governing All Pro...

  Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has flagged off the distribution of 300,000 bags of 10kg rice palliatives to citizens of the state. The event, which took place on Friday, was in line with the promise made by Prince Abiodun to ensure the immediate distribution of the palliatives. The governor acknowledged that the palliatives were sent to states by the federal government  and has been domesticated by the state government.  "This is a federal government initiative under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that is being domesticated right here in Ogun State. "Our desire in the first instance is to distribute about 300,000 bags of 10kg rice across our 5,400 polling units. "We have decided to use the polling units as a reference of distribution, not wards, because we realized that using wards won't be equitable. "You can imagine taking a ward in Sagamu, for example, like the Ogijo ward and compare it with a ward in Ikenne. If we use the ward as th...