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Jul 19 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
Accompanying the unveiling event of @nnpclimited today is a “Museum of Yesterday” pop-up, at the State House Conference Center. #NewNNPC

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Throwback to the first products of the Kaduna Refinery. ImageImageImageImage
Spot Colonel M Buhari. Photo from c1976. Image
#NNPCIsTransitioning #NewNNPC ImageImageImageImage
“The Museum of Yesterday” #NewNNPC ImageImageImage
Pioneers of NNPC. Jackson Gaius-Obaseki was actually a founding staff (1971) of the NNPC’s precursor, the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC), and went on to become NNPC GMD 1999-2003. #NewNNPC Image
This Wall needs a Woman. NNPC GMDs. We’ve had a female Minister of Petroleum Resources (Diezani AM), and two female Board Chairs of NNPC (Diezani and Okadigbo), but no female GMD yet. Image
@AdewaleTinubu on a tour of ‘The Museum of Yesterday’. #NewNNPC #AsoVillaToday Image

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Jul 21
International Maritime Bureau(IMB) has just issued its Piracy Report for Jan—June 2022

58 actual & attempted Piracy & Armed-Robbery-Against-Ships incidents WORLDWIDE in H1 2022
—NONE in Nigeria’s coastal waters

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Jul 19
The unveiling of the new @nnpclimited by President Buhari, later this morning at the State House.

The new Petroleum Industry Act 2021 (PIA) has transformed the Corporation into a limited liability company, governed by the new CAMA 2020. #AsoVillaToday
Event set to kick off. President Buhari is now taking a tour of the “NNPC Museum”, a pop-up museum set up within the StateHouse Conference Center. #NNPCIsTransitioning #NNPCLimited
Watch live here:
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Jul 15
19 Black students who matriculated at Cambridge Uni’s Clare College between 1916 and 1973:

More than 10 of them are Nigerian. I’ve been Googling some of the names to see what they went on to do.
Theophilus Ayo Bankole: organist, composer, musicologist. Studied at @guildhallschool and @Cambridge_Uni. His last major work was a Cantata for FESTAC ‘77. Unfortunately he didn’t live to see FESTAC, he and wife were murdered (by his half-brother) in Lagos in November 1976.
Nwakanma Okoro: Lawyer and Politician. Among the second set of lawyers to be awarded SAN, in 1978, alongside Obafemi Awolowo, Ben Nwabueze, Kehinde Sofola, GOK Ajayi, Remi Fani-Kayode etc.
@NigBarAssoc President, 1976-78. Founding member of NPN, and its first National Secretary.
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Jul 15
Kano is the undisputed Rice Capital of Nigeria.

“According to him, before the coming of President @MBuhari, the number of millers with good machines in the market were less than 100, but that presently it has gone up to about 1,000…” dailytrust.com/rice-revolutio…
“Daily Trust caught up with some of the customers, Kelechi Onyinye & Chinyere Okafor, from the South East, who have been in the business for about five years. They said the quality of the rice from Kano had improved tremendously & was cheaper than what they got in other States.”
“Rice farmers don’t have a problem here at all. If you want buyers even at the farm gate they will come. We have many processing mills; the market is always there, so the problem of whether your [rice] will not be bought at a good price… is not even there.” — Saidu Auwal
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Jul 14
So @Delta stopped a Nigerian National from boarding a flight to Nigeria on account of an expired passport.
Interior Min @raufaregbesola has now told @nigimmigration that no Nigerian with an expired passport should be prevented from entering Nigeria. (Hope NIS & airlines comply!)
Because there’s really no reason for a Nigerian with a Nigerian passport to be denied entry to Nigeria simply because their passport has expired.
Find the story here: premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/…
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Jul 11
I guess, sometimes, stereotypes exist for defying.

By way of history, in 1979, UPN's Obafemi Awolowo (Yoruba Christian) ran with Philip Umeadi (Igbo Christian) & came a very close second to NPN's Shehu Shagari (Fulani Muslim) & Alex Ekwueme (Igbo Christian).

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Guess what - Awo-Umeadi wasn't the only Christian-Christian ticket on the ballot for the 1979 Presidential Election.

Nnamdi Azikiwe (Igbo Christian), who came third in the race, also ran with another Christian, Ishaya Audu (a Christian from Kaduna State).
Christian-Christian tickets (Awo-Umeadi; Zik-Audu) got a total of 7.7 million votes in 1979 Presidential election. More than what eventual winner (Muslim-Christian) got.

In fact, an Awolowo-Zik alliance could very easily have become President and VP in 1979. See the numbers:
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