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NNPC destroys 134 Illegal Refineries Recently

A destroyed refinery  By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade  The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited( NNPCL) says it has destroyed 134 illegal refineries in the last few weeks.  Also, the company said  63 illegal pipeline connections were uncovered during the the weeks .  The corporation, In a visual report, stated that at about 2 am on Sunday, a joint team of security agents discovered a large wooden boat illicitly loading stolen crude oil from Barge AGS01 within the OML 18 operating area, noted intelligence report a large wooden wooden boat was caught receiving crude oil from the barge.  According to the state-owned oil firm, while the barge was towed away with a tugboat in custody, five speedboats used in towing the large wooden boat to the illegal loading site were also detained and the particulars of the tugboats and barge used for the operation were reportedly seized for further investigation.  It further said that two large boats, which involve
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Niger-AEDC:' You are embarrassing the state govt


By Akinola Ajibade
Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) is embarrassing the Niger state government, by disconnecting light to its state house, secretariat, general hospital,  and the office to the Secretary to the government over N1.3billion debt.
This follows the decision by AEDC to disconnect government house, ministries, departments and agencies, including the Minna General Hospital due to non-payment of N1.3billion accumulated bills accumulated by the government.
The firm's regional Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Mohammed Adamu,explained that the state government defaulted after initial agreement to offset outstanding sum running into several billions of Naira.
However,Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Matane in an interview, said AEDC is merely trying to embarrass everyone because the state government have not defaulted in paying monthly N57 million as agreed.
“The AEDC is claiming that the government is indebted to the tune of, N1.3 billion, but again have failed to also let the public know about the one we paid over a period of time. I think they are just out to embarrass everybody by going out and cutting lights just like that”.
Matane said the government will continue to handle the issue of the AEDC with maturity, adding however that he sees no reasons why the company still go ahead to embarrass the state government by throwing the entire government facilities in darkness.
On what the government has done to remedy the situation, Matane said,:“We have been dialoguing with them, even yesterday (Saturday), we met and still talking. But you see they just went to town to embarrass everybod.The average consumption monthly according to the AEDC is estimated at about N70 million, for all the disconnected facilities but based on agreement the state government have been paying N57 million monthly and have not defaulted.
“Even in the court of law, debts with mutual agreement on mode of payments is allowed or acceptable and we agreed with them on how we will be paying, but like I said, as a government we still maintain this gentleman approach to handling the issue”.

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