Man United seek a reaction on Sanchez’s home bow

Manchester United’s Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez (R) confronts Tottenham Hotspur’s English midfielder Dele Alli (2L) after Alli tripped him during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium in London, on January 31, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / IKIMAGES / Ian KINGTON

Alexis Sanchez is poised to make his home debut as Manchester United aim to bounce back from a damaging defeat at Tottenham Hotspur when struggling

Gboko killings: Police DPO under interrogation, others arrested

The Commissioner of Police in Benue, Mr Fatai Owoseni.

The Police Command in Benue is interrogating the Divisional Police Officer in- charge of Gboko A Division over the Wednesday killing of seven persons. The Commissioner of Police in Benue, Mr Fatai Owoseni, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Friday

Trump blasts FBI, Justice Dept bosses in showdown over Republican memo

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused the FBI and the Justice Department’s top officials of politicizing its investigations as the White

Breaking: Fidel Castro's eldest son 'Fidelito' commits suicide

Video by CBS MiamiHAVANA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday aged 68 after being treated for

NNPC plans PPP model for pipeline infrastructure

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will leverage public private partnership to address the gap in pipeline infrastructure in the country, Group Managing of the company, Maikanti Baru, has said.

Speaking while inaugurating a new board for one of its downstream subsidiaries- the Nigerian Pipeline Storage Company (NPSC), in Abuja, Baru was optimistic that the private sector could help the industry build more pipelines parallel to the corporation’s existing ones.

“Your work also is to look at refurbishing these pipelines and storage along a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement by getting willing private companies to invest in these pipelines. NNPC Management is very much disposed to supporting your efforts in this regard,” he said.Baru, who insisted that such partnership would enhance the company’s profitabilit, urged the company to double its pipeline network in the next 10 years, stressing that such a target was “absolutely necessary.”

According to him, pipelines are the arteries of the nation’s oil and gas Industry, saying that part of the reform process embarked upon by the corporation was to birth an NPSC with clear focus that regards pipeline storage and distribution as real business.“I have a passion for this company and I believe this firm will be a leader in that segment of our operations. That is why we focused our energy on refurbishing, repairing and re-streaming of our storage facilities and pipelines over the last few months,” Baru noted.

He charged them to also integrate, through their pipelines resources, the various butanisation depots which are used as reception points for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).“We have a lot of LPG that is being exported. This could be utilized domestically in line with our vision of providing alternative energy sources for domestic and industrial use nationwide,” he stressed.

Baru tasked the NPSC management to engage the various host state governments towards the restoration of the Products Right of Way (PRoW) to ensure the safety of the citizens and products.He added that most of the state governments were ever-willing to support the corporation in preventing infringements on its PRoW.
He expressed NNPC Management’s readiness to engage security agencies against any act of economic sabotage towards the pipelines.

Responding, the Chairman of the NPSC Board and Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, NNPC, Isa Inuwa, pledged the readiness of the Board to support the NPSC Management towards achieving its set targets.“It is our vision to transit NPSC to a market-phasing, competitive and profit-making organisation. We are committed as a board to deliver on this mandate,” Inuwa stated.

Also speaking, the Managing Director of the company, Luke Anele thanked the NNPC Management, saying that although the task before his team was huge, it would nonetheless leave up to expectations.Aside Inuwa, who is the Chairman, the new board also has Henry Ikem-Obi, Luke Anele, Mr. Umar Ajiya, Mr. Ahmadu Sambo, Mr. Abdullahi Gunda, Mr. Ahmed Danladi, Mrs. Betty A. Ugonna as members and Mr. Victor Omoluabi as Secretary.

Shell profit soars on higher oil prices

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Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday that a major recovery in oil prices enabled it to nearly triple profits in 2017. The Anglo-Dutch energy giant said in a statement that net or bottom-line earnings soared to just under $13 billion last year from $4.6 billion in 2016, with fourth-quarter profits leaping 147 percent to $3.8 billion.
Shell said its performance was boosted particularly by rising oil prices, which tend to

Nokian targets African market with new tyre technology

Head of Customer Marketing and Communications, Nokia, Joachim Wuilmet (left); Head of Customer Marketing, Central, East and West Africa,  Nokia, Ms Cherine Aziez; Managing Director, Customer Operations, Middle East, Africa, Nokia Nigeria, Richard Edet; and Market Unit Head, Central East and West Africa Region, Daniel Jaeger, at the Nokia World Congress Revisited Roadshow in Lagos on Tuesday.<br />

Riding on the heels of Eustore247, Nokian Tyres, one of the world’s leading auto-tyres manufacturing companies, will be launching its brand in Nigeria, with a formal launch billed for February 23, at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Eagles beat Sudan 1-0, qualify for CHAN final

Okechukwu Gabriel of Nigeria celebrates goal with teammates during the 2018 CHAN semifinals football game between Sudan and Nigeria at the Grand Stade Marrakech in Marrakech, Morocco on 31 January 2017 PHOTO: TWITTER/CAF

Nigeria yesterday in Marrakesh,

‘Third Force’ launches in Abuja, considers political party status

By Adamu Abuh and Matthew Ogune (Abuja) and Bertram Nwannekanma (Lagos)

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Hundreds of people, yesterday, trooped to the Yar Adua Centre in Abuja, for the official launch of what was supposed to be former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘Coalition for Nigeria Movement’, known also as the Third Force. Obasanjo, in a letter highly critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, a week ago, had asked: “If neither the All Progressives Congress (APC) nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do?”
He then went on to call for the establishment of the group, saying: “We need a Coalition for Nigeria. Such a Movement at this juncture needs not be a political party but

NASA lost contact with a satellite 12 years ago. An amateur just found its signal.

 IMAGE was a machine designed to “see the invisible,” as one of the mission's lead scientists once put it.
It was a squat and boxy thing, like many satellites, with a long technical name — Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration — that obscured its plain and noble purpose: to map the roiling sphere of electric gas around the Earth that protects us from