Sunday, July 8, 2018
Friday, July 6, 2018
NNPC Pays $1b Out of $5b cash call, says Baru
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has paid $1billion out of its $5billion cash call arraers. The Group Managing Director Dr. Maikanti Baru stated this in Abuja while addressing the corporation’s workers via a mail broadcast to commemorate his two-year anniversary. In a statement released yesterday, Baru said in the upstream sub-sector, the corporation has worked hard to sustain production level above an average of 2million barrels per day (bpd) this year. He said aside securing approval and signing off the novel financing structure with Schlumberger for the NNPC/First E&P JV, which is expected to deliver a peak production of 50kbopd and 120million standard cubic feet of gas per day (MMscfd) by 2019.
Ex-Premier League Coach, George Ormond Jailed Over Sexual Abuse
An Ex-Premier League coach, George Ormond has been sentence to 20 years in jail by a Newcastle court over sexual abuse. Ormond, who was a destructive paedophile, worked with Newcastle United’s youth team in 1970 and 1980s before assisting the Premier League club in the 1990s. The 62-year-old used his powers over vulnerable and ambitious boys as young as 11-years-old to sexually abuse them and keep them silent.