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Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu credits:  The punch   The Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has been performing excellently since he assume office. The Federal Government has currently regulates the prices of petrol, and kerosene, and subsidizes their prices to enable Nigerians to get the products at the regulated prices. The fixing of petroleum products’ prices is denying the country investment in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry and depriving Nigerians certain benefits from the country’s petroleum resources, industry stakeholders said on Thursday. According to  The Puchng , The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, in his address at the National Association of Energy Correspondents’ conference in Lagos, said, “Subsidy creates distortions in government revenue distribution as a result of round-tripping and unnecessary carry...

     credit: lindaikeji.blogspot.com A team of students in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) built a very portable car.

credits: http://The Punch The General Manager, Shonga Farm Holdings Limited, Mr. Adebayo Sangobiyi, has said that Nigeria can achieve national food security and earn about N5tn foreign exchange from agricultural exports as well as create massive employment with the adoption of commercial agriculture.  He said it was imperative to have a well-articulated and strategic agricultural master plan that should be strictly implemented to boost the nation’s agricultural transformation. He said this during an interview with The Puch correspondent in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. Sangobiyi said, “If we face agriculture squarely, there will be industrialisation; with that, the economy will be transformed. Even at the national level, the Gross Domestic Product will improve and we will do less of importation.”

The dreaded terrorist group – the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS – has reportedly put to death 19 young women who refused to have sex with its fighters. The 19 women were abducted and held hostage by the ISIS in its stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, which the terrorist group had seized since June 2014. As reported by Daily mail on friday on its website quoted a Kurdish Democratic Party spokesperson as saying that the girls were executed for refusing to “participate in the practice of sexual jihad”.

Nigeria actress Mercy Johnson has express her true feelings when playing a romantic role in her profession. she said during an interview with Naij that she has never for once allow her personal emotion to overcome her while discharging her responsibilities in the industry. She recently explained her versatility in the industry, while interpreting her romantic roles and she simply does not allow those scenes get to her as she closes her eye while delivering her part. being a superstar, masses look upon the artist and paint them in the exact image of the role they play but, she said “Whenever there is need to for romantic roles, I close my eyes and say this could have been avoided. I don’t really feel anything. We only teach with our roles.”

Yahoo News Buhari to visit Chad, Niger for Boko Haram talks . Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari will this week make his first foreign trip since taking office, travelling to Chad and Niger for talks on Boko Haram, his spokesman said on Monday. Shehu Garba said the two-day trip starting on Wednesday will focus on "matters of security", with the cooperation of Nigeria's neighbours seen as crucial to ending the Islamist uprising which has claimed more than 15,000 lives since 2009. Buhari was sworn in last Friday and vowed in his inaugural speech to crush the insurgent group he described as "mindless" and "godless". Obtain from Google news