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Let’s pray for Dangote
Let’s pray for Dangote
By: Maijama’a Adamu
Few months back, I received a memo in my office mandating me to act as the Zonal Director of the NTA Maiduguri Network Centre.
l was neither elated nor happy. I knew what was going to happen. Few hours later, I was confronted with request for diesel. Transmission may be stopped any moment if diesel was not provided. I asked our finance and marketing departments how much money we had.
I asked of the price of the diesel and was told #1650 per liter. In some places in the same Maiduguri it was up to #1700 per liter. I called a dealer friend who agreed to offer me at #1580 per liter. Luckily my acting duty lasted only three days. I left for Eid-El-Fitr.
Few months afterwards, Dangote Refinery management announced commencement of supply of diesel at a #1000 per liter in the south and #1100 in the north. No government, past or present, in this Nigeria has ever reduced dispensing price of petroleum products by a hundred Naira. Dangote reduced it by almost six hundred Naira. NNPC price was #1580 prior to the Dangote price of #1000 to #1100.
Now all marketers, both major, independent and NNPC were left with no options but to forcefully comply with the new price regime. They can’t beat the biggest refinery in the world!
Now the refinery is set to roll out petrol and all hell has been loose down on the refinery with the NNPC ironically as the number one open enemy of the refinery. We knew of the agreement of 20% equity holding in the Dangote Refinery by the NNPC to be footed by supply of crude oil. They practically starved the refinery of the crude oil reducing their equity to only 7%. The refinery now has to go as far as US to source for crude oil.
NNPC is now telling us diesel from Dangote Refinery is the worst in the world because of high sulphur content. Dangote is firing back challenging whoever cares to do the measurement of his diesel and that from other sources to ascertain the truth.
Why on earth, will NNPC come out, openly and desperately to demarket the refinery after the frustrations they imposed on the company behind the shadows?
Who exactly is for us, and who is against us when even the agency of government is resorting to throat-slitting against the refinery that openly, is our only hope for cheaper supplies as the case of its diesel has proven.
I’m of the opinion that this enimity is sustained. Any truce or compromise that is amicably achieved may be at our own detriment.
Let’s pray for Dangote please, I so move.
Let’s pray for Dangote
Ambassador Mamman hails Buratai’s legacy, urges youth mentorship
By: Zagazola Makama
Ambassador Yusuf Mamman, former Nigerian envoy, has lauded the leadership and reforms of retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, former Chief of Army Staff, describing him as a “soldier’s soldier” whose tenure transformed the Nigerian Army’s doctrine, structure, and innovation.
Mamman, who chaired the public presentation of the book Life Principles for Greatness from the Life of Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, said he accepted the role without hesitation because the work offered lessons for Nigeria’s youth.
He recalled that Buratai rose from a cadet in the Nigerian Defence Academy to become Chief of Army Staff at a time the country faced the existential threat of Boko Haram insurgency.
“He came at a very challenging and difficult time in our national history, when Boko Haram posed the biggest existential threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity since the civil war,” Mamman said.
According to him, Buratai spearheaded deep and profound changes that reshaped military doctrine, operations, and troop welfare, laying the foundation for the ongoing modernisation of the Nigerian Army.
“He never sought to take credit, but his works were very evident and clear. The master plan for the Army’s modernisation we are following today was driven by his vision,” he added.
Mamman also linked Buratai’s example to the need for youth empowerment, noting that Nigeria’s young people are making significant contributions in technology, media, and the creative industry.
“We must give them the enabling environment to harness their creativity for national greatness. Our future relies on the resilience, creativity, and scholarship of our youth,” he said.
The event, held in Abuja Intercontinental Hotel attracted dignitaries including Senior Military Officers, both serving and retired, Sen. Abdulaziz Yar’adua, Chairman Senate Committee on Army, and other prominent Nigerians.
Ambassador Mamman hails Buratai’s legacy, urges youth mentorship
Kachalla Alti kills rival bandit kingpin, Dankarami Usaini in Zamfara community
By: Zagazola Makama
A feared bandit kingpin, Kachalla Alti, has killed a fellow gang leader in Matsuki village, Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, in what residents described as a deadly supremacy battle.
Zagazola gathered from sources that the incident, which occurred at about 4:45 p.m. on Monday, has left the community tense and largely deserted.
Witnesses said the slain bandit, identified as Dankarami Usaini, 40, a Hausa native of Matsuki, had long operated from the Dangajeru forest, allegedly extorting residents and attacking those who resisted.
According to locals, Dankarami was in the village to collect levies on behalf of Kachalla Alti, the younger brother of notorious armed gang leader, Adamu Alero.
However, discontent had been brewing among residents over the “excessive harassment” by Dankarami. They reportedly reached out to Kachalla Alti to intervene. Kachalla Alti stormed the village with his men and shot Dankarami dead on the spot.
Following the killing, many residents fled to nearby villages, fearing retaliatory attacks from Dankarami’s loyalists.
Local sources said tension remains high, with sporadic gunfire heard in nearby forest routes.
Kachalla Alti kills rival bandit kingpin, Dankarami Usaini in Zamfara community
Police, hunters search for kidnapped septuagenarian in Gombe
By: Zagazola Makama
Police in Gombe State, in collaboration with local hunters, have launched a search for a 60-year-old man abducted by gunmen in Funakaye Local Government Area.
Sources said the incident occurred on Tuesday at about 12:30 a.m., when about seven armed men stormed the Ganti area of Abuku village via Ribadu Bajoga and kidnapped one Muhammadu Lawal to an unknown location.
Upon receiving the report from the village head of Bage, a joint team of police operatives and hunters mobilised to comb nearby communities in an effort to rescue the victim unhurt.
The sources said no arrests had been made as of the time of filing this report.
Police, hunters search for kidnapped septuagenarian in Gombe
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