Trouble in Nigerian petroleum sector

Dr Ibe Kachikwu has threatened to resign if Nigeria is still importing fuel by 2019 - The minister of state for petroleum resources says the government will deliver on its promise regarding refineries - Kachikwu said since he assumed office, he has been able to get refineries back to produce 7million litres of petroleum product Minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said that if fuel importation continues in Nigeria till 2019, he will throw in the towel. Kachikwu stated this during an interview on BBC World Service programme, HardTalk, on Monday, May 22. He promised to deliver on the refineries and said he was committed to also delivering a future for oil for Nigeria. In reaction to a question about when the country was going to be self-sufficient in terms of refining petroleum, Kachikwu said 2019 is the target. Nigerians demand answers He stressed that the government has put a date to fix the issues within the sector, and working towards the set date. The minister also said that he has been able to get refineries back to produce 7million litres of petroleum product, since he assumed office one-and-half year ago. He said: “I have delivered on everything since I came to office. First, I took NNPC and moved them into a profit making organization first time in history and reshaped the organization.

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Father turns 17-year old daughter to a sex tool

An incestuous father, Folorunsho Oluwaseun, who allegedly turned his 17-year-old daughter into a sex object, was on Friday granted a reprieve by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Oluwaseun was released on N300,000 bail with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charge. The 51-year-old electrician, who resides at 40, Popoola Str., Offin in Ikorodu, Lagos State, is facing a charge of rape. Police Prosecutor Clifford Ogu told the court that the accused committed the offence between Aug. 8, 2016 and April 2017 at his residence. Ogu said the accused, who has separated from his wife since 2013, was awarded the custody of his three children including the girl. “The accused started abusing his 17-year-old daughter sexually since August last year. “The girl wrote in her statement to the police that any time she refuses her father’s sexual advances, he would not give her and her siblings food,’’ he said. “The girl narrated her ordeal to her mother when she visited the...

Malpractice - over 10,000 students caught in Anambra state, says JAMB

The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination malpractices in the on-going UTME in Anambra have been handed over to appropriate authority. Mrs Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board in Anambra, disclosed this in Awka on Saturday. The computer-based testing (CBT) mode 2017 UTME, which started on May 13 in 642 centres nationwide, ended on May 20. Nwachukwu said that the examination, which took place in 28 centres in the state, was successful. “There was no disruption of the exercise in any of the examination centres,’’ she said. The coordinator said that the candidates adhered strictly to the requirements of the examination, adding that JAMB provided all the materials required for the examination. However, some parents complained of system failure in some CBT centres in the state. Mrs Eucharia Okonkwo, a parent, said her daughter, who wrote the examination at the St Mary’s High School Ifite-Dunu centre, could not complete t...

Interesting article about virgin and masturbation

If you call yourself a virgin and you masturbate, you are not one' - Counselor Lutterodt Controversial Ghanaian marriage counselor, George Lutterodt, in a new shocking disclosure has said that virgins who masturbate should not describe themselves as one. He disclosed this in a recent interview with Kasapa FM, while revealing the high rate of masturbating virgins between Christians. According to him: 'We have masturbating virgins and per a research, I conducted last year, Christians are in that range more than anyone else in the sense that, they do not want to have sex with anyone but masturbate to satisfy their sexual desire. These people cannot describe themselves as virgins because they derive the same pleasure like people who have sex.’ Mr. Lutterodt also rain curses on men living in Diaspora who purchase sex toys for their wives in other to prevent them from committing adultery 'If you are a woman married to a man abroad and he has purchased a ...

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