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PRESS RELEASE ​  Covid-19: IGP Orders Zonal AIGs/Command CPs to Enforce Social Restriction Orders - Warns against unnecessary arrests/detention of suspects Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) global health threat and the subsequent social restriction orders. imposed by governments at all levels, to enable its containment, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A. Adamu, NPM, mni while enjoining citizens to voluntarily adhere to the orders, directs all Zonal Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and Commissioners of Police nationwide to ensure that all legitimate orders given in pursuant to the containment efforts are strictly enforced within their areas of jurisdiction. The IGP, while urging officers to observe personal safety measures, further directs the Zonal AIGs and Command CPs to ensure that cases of unnecessary arrests and detention of suspects are not condoned. He reiterates that detention of suspects must be reduced to the barest minimum and th...

Blue Seal Energy Group (BESG) has announced plans to construct  a-35,000 metric tons per annum capacity chemical production plant, at an estimated cost of $12.5 million plant in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos. At the project groundbreaking ceremony, the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Seal Energy, Doyle Edeni, said the facility was being constructed to bridge the massive importation of chemicals into the country and also bridge the gap between demand and supply of industrial chemicals, water treatment chemicals, and oilfield chemicals. Edeni, added that the first phase of the 35,000 metric tons per annum chemical plant would cost about $12.5 million with a potential to expand and would also solve Nigeria imported chemicals to the tune of $1.4 billion in 2019 alone, out of which his company was responsible for $5 million yearly. “We want to help change the narrative of our country from being an import-dependent to manufacturing and export-based country,” Edeni said. Edeni explaine...

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Lordship, the Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama, has commended Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s demonstration of love and solidarity with Nigerians, including the Church at all times. Archbishop Kaigama gave the commendation in his sermon at the opening mass of the first 2020 plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) held at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja on Sunday. The cleric, who spoke apparently against some agitation in the country, expressed happiness with the presence of the vice president at the event, declaring that he had always been in solidarity with Nigerians and the Church through thick and thin. The vice president, on the invitation of the CBCN, attended the opening mass which is a prelude to the plenary meeting of all Catholic Bishops of Nigeria annually. “I am so happy that our vice president is here; it is not just being here but there is a very profound sacramental blessing that he is here; when yo...

Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture ,Sabo Nanono, has assured Nigerians that the government will work with relevant stakeholders to bring down the market price of rice, a key staple in the Nigerian diet. Nanono said that the prices of the staple had remained relatively high in the country, despite the increasing support for the cultivation of the crop. Speaking exclusively to newsmen after inspecting a world-class rice milling facilities of the Stallion Group`s Popular Farms and Mill Limited, in Kano, northwest Nigeria recently, the minister said the Federal Government was dissatisfied with the current price of rice at over N17,000 per a 50kg bag in the country. He noted that the price is on the high side and unacceptable by the government given its support constant support to growers of the crops. “ I see no reason why a 50kg bag of rice should be sold for N17, 000, when the same paddy rice is sold at N8,500 and maximum processing expense is #2,000, which translates int...

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has announced the world’s biggest fertiliser plant located in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos Nigeria will begin full commercial production in May 2020. With a capacity of 3million tonnes per annum, the $2-billion Granulated Urea Fertiliser plant has been classified as the biggest project in the history of the fertiliser industry. Speaking during a tour of the facilities with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, Dangote told journalists that the fertiliser plant  which will begin operations fully in May 2020 will also be one of Nigeria’s highest foreign exchange generating companies going forward. This project means Nigeria will be the biggest and only Urea exporter of about 4 million in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa which will bring in about $2.5 billion in terms of forex. “I think we must thank President Muhammadu Buhari for his policies. I thank the CBN governor and management for bringing down interest r...