The Management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has informed its esteemed passengers and the general public that train operations on the Warri–Itakpe corridor will soon resume. Operations had been temporarily suspended on the train service to enable the NRC to carry out urgent and critical track repairs aimed at guaranteeing the safet...
After three years in operation, Nigerian education technology startup Edukoya has ended operations, saying poor infrastructure and economic challenges made it impossible to scale. The startup which secured Africa’s largest pre-seed funding of $3.5 million in 2021, said it will return capital to investors rather than persist in what it describe...
•Warri refinery Mixed reactions have trailed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company‘s (NNPC) announcement of the resumption of operations at the Warri refinery. The NNPCL Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed today that the 125,000-barrel-per-day Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company (WRPC) in Delta State has commenced oper...
•Port Harcourt Refinery The operational capacity of the newly rehabilitated Port Harcourt Refining Company came under intense scrutiny yesterday. This was following claims that petroleum products loaded from the facility on Tuesday were not newly refined but products stored in the storage tank of the facility in the last three years, reports T...
•Port Harcourt refinery The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has confirmed that the Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers State has commenced crude oil processing. The Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the company, Femi Soneye, announced today that the refinery would operate at 60 per cent capacity, processing 60,000 barre...
•Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno is “personally” leading an army counter-offensive against Boko Haram after a deadly attack by the jihadist group on a military garrison, the presidency said today. Jihadists killed around 40 people during a late Sunday to Monday raid on the base in the [&hel...
•Chinese policemen More than 800 people suspected of being cross-border scammers were arrested in a joint police operation by Myanmar and China, the junta and Beijing’s embassy in Yangon said today. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar, staffed by citizens from China and other countries who are often forced to work swindling their compatr...
The Edo State Police Command, yesterday, commenced rescue operations following the kidnap of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in the state, Tony Aziegbemi. Gunmen had on Friday abducted Aziegbemi shortly after a meeting with the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, at the Government House in Benin City, reports Channels TV. After con...
•Port Harcourt Refinery John Erinne, an energy consultant and former president of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, has expressed doubt over the Port Harcourt Refinery’s immediate return to regular operation after Christmas. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, had yesterday announced the c...

