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Presidential Tribunal Adjourns APP, LP Petitions Against Tinubu
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja has adjourned the petitions of the Action Peoples Party and the Labour Party to Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
Both parties are challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, which saw Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress declared the winner.
In its petition marked CA/ABJ/PEPC/02/2022, the APP is alleging irregularities in the election, including alleged mutilation of election results, voter inducement, and vote buying.
The party also claims that Tinubu was not qualified to stand for the election due to alleged falsification of age and educational qualifications. The APP is the only applicant in the petition.
The LP and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, are challenging the outcome of the election on the grounds that Tinubu was not qualified to contest the election due to an offence involving dishonesty, namely narcotics trafficking imposed by the United States District Court.
They also cited non-compliance with the electoral laws and guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
During the proceedings, the national legal adviser of the APP, Peter Abang, announced his appearance for the party, while Wole Olanipekun, Lateef Fagbemi, and Abubakar Mahmoud appeared for Tinubu, the APC, and INEC, respectively.
Fagbemi, the APC’s counsel, informed the court of his preliminary objection to the APP’s petition, while Mahmoud informed the court of his client’s pending applications in response to the APP’s petition. The court adjourned the APP’s petition until May 10 to continue the hearing.
Following the adjournment of the APP’s petition, the Labour Party and Peter Obi’s petition were called up.
During the proceedings, counsel for Obi, Livy Uzoukwu, stated that they had filed their answers to the court’s questions on April 22, 2023.
“We adopt and rely on them in this pre-trial proceedings.”
Counsel for INEC, Mahmoud, and counsel for Tinubu, Olanipekun, also informed the court that their clients had filed their answers to the court’s questions.
He said, “We have filed our answers on the 3rd of May 2023 and my Noble Lords under paragraph 14 we have also listed the application subject to the preliminary objection in the reply.” He adopted the answers therein.
Counsel for the APC, Fagbemi, also stated that he had filed answers on behalf of his client. The court adjourned Obi’s petition until May 10.
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NNPC JV Unveils New Crude Oil Grade ‘Nembe’, Commences Exports With 1,900 Barrels
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The NNPC/Aiteo Joint venture has announced the introduction of Nembe Crude Oil Grade, a new crude oil grade into the international crude oil market.
The announcement of the Nembe Crude Oil Blend, produced by Aiteo, the Operator of the NNPC/Aiteo Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 Joint Venture (JV), was made at the ongoing Argus European Crude Conference in London, on Tuesday.
OML 29, an asset located onshore Nigeria, is operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration & Production Ltd, Africa’s leading indigenous hydrocarbon producer, following a historic acquisition from Shell in 2014.
The Nembe Crude was previously blended with the popular Bonny Light grade and exported via the Bonny Oil & Gas Terminal.
The unique selling point of the Nembe Crude Oil grade with an API gravity was highlighted by both the Aiteo E & P and NNPC Limited Leadership at the Argus Conference in London.
The Nembe Crude Oil grade also has a low sulphur content and low carbon footprint due to flare gas elimination, fitting perfectly into the required spec of major buyers in Europe.
Two cargoes of 950,000 barrels each of the Nembe Crude Oil grade have since been exported to France and the Netherlands. With its attractive Assay of API 29 and low sulphur content, the Nembe Crude Oil grade commands a premium to the global Brent benchmark.
With the NNPC-Aiteo OML 29 JV back on-stream, Nigeria now boasts of an additional crude oil export of 2 Cargoes at 950,000 barrels each per month and 1.2 Bcf of export gas monthly.
This remarkable achievement signals the commencement of activities at Nigeria’s newest crude oil terminal, the Nembe Crude Oil Export Terminal (NCOET), which was licensed in line with the extant laws and Crude Oil Terminal establishment regulations.
The terminal was conceived as a Floating Storage and Offloading Vessel (FSO) with a storage capacity of two (2) Million Barrels and the ability to offload crude oil to any export tanker from AFRAMAX to Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC).
It has a loading capacity of 25,000 barrels per hour and will be exporting over 3.6 million barrels of Crude oil monthly at full scale of operation.
Currently, hydrocarbon production from OML 29, which was hitherto constrained due to evacuation challenges owing to the security issues around the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) corridor, has now been resolved through a collaborative and creative approach that led to the innovation of the Alternative Crude Oil Evacuation Solution.
The Argus European Crude Conference 2023 in London is a gathering of energy majors, refiners, NOCs, traders, financial institutions, and other representatives from across the global oil markets. The event also provides a critical opportunity for business leaders to connect, discuss, share and learn from one another.
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JUST IN: Tribunal Sacks Gov Uba Sani, Declares Election Invalid
Governor Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was removed from office on Thursday by the governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kaduna State.
The panel ruled that the state’s 2023 governorship election was invalid.
According to information gathered by Biztellers, the judges avoided the actual auditorium and instead communicated the decision via zoom.
It commanded the holding of new elections in seven wards across four local government units in the State.
Isa Ashiru, a candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, and the PDP filed the petition.