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Crude oil is now being pumped directly from Escravos to Warri Refinery and also from Bonny to Port Harcourt Refinery through pipeline buried on the sea bed. This is coming as Minister of State for Petroleum and Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, said incessant pipelines vandalism and fuel scarcity in Nigeria would soon end.

Fresh facts have emerged why the people of the state especially the Ijaws in the riverine communities of Delta State did not disrupt the reception of Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, during his recent visit to the state. The VP, penultimate week, visited the Forcados Terminal, a major export line operated by the Anglo-Dutch oil firm, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), which was destroyed by a shadowy militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), over alleged witch hunting of the ex-warlord, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo , who is facing prosecution in absentia for corrupt enrichment.

After Sunday's big revelation, can Melisandre resurrect Jon Snow? Here's four reasons we think the Red Priestess could do just that. "Game of Thrones" returned on Sunday, April 24, 2016 for its sixth season with a huge reveal. Every hardcore "GOT" and Jon Snow fan is hopeful that the twist means something positive as regards Jon Snow's fate. Titled "The Red Woman," the premiere episode came to an end with Melisandre, in the privacy of her quarters, removing her magical necklace to reveal her true form as an ancient crone.

The attack is said to have occurred on Monday, April 25, 2016, in the Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of the state.    A herdsman About 40 people have been reported dead in Enugu State after an attack by Fulani herdsmen. The attack is said to have occurred on Monday, April 25, 2016, in the Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of the state, according to Vanguard. The herdsmen also reportedly burnt 10 houses and a church, Christ Holy Church International during the invasion.

NIGERIAN teenage international, Kelechi Iheanacho, has declared that Manchester City would shock star studded Real Madrid in today’s UEFA Champions League semi final at Etihad. Iheanacho told City’s official website that they would strive to win the first leg and take the advantage to the Bernabeu for the return leg. In his words: “We really need to win here (Etihad) because at their home it’s not going to be an easy game. It’s a great achievement for the club to be in the last four of the tournament but it would be a dream to get to the final so we’re really hoping for that.”

The damage of Shell’s Forcados export terminal pipeline and the vandalism of the Lagos Escravos pipeline in February, has resulted in the constraint of 3,132 megawatts (MW) Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. The vice president disclosed this while speaking yesterday at the 9th international conference of Nigeria Association of Energy Economics/International Association of Energy Economists (NAEE/IAEE), in Abuja, with the theme, “Energising Emerging Economies: Role of Natural Gas and Renewable Energy Resources”. This is even as the President of NAEE, Prof Wumi Iledare, who supported the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector, stated that government has no business fixing the price of an economic good like petrol. According to him, the price should be determined by the market reality and should sell for about N120 a litre. This way he said, marketers will sell without hoarding the products while consumers will buy with any crisis.

   President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, will lead other senators to a crucial meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari today to find a lasting solution to the 2016 Appropriation Bill logjam. The meeting, billed to hold last Friday, was shifted because one of the personalities key to the meeting was out of town. Vanguard gathered yesterday that the meeting with President Buhari had become imperative as it would be an avenue to bring up grey areas identified in the budget and harmonize them in the overall interest of Nigerians.

Lamido A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, on Monday said he would contest the nation’s Presidency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019. Lamido made this known to newsmen in his village, Bamainain, which is located in the Birnin-Kudu Local Government Area of the state. He, however, said the party’s ticket would not be given to anybody on the platter of gold, adding that a candidate must earn it.

Voters in five north-eastern US states will cast ballots in a series of primaries that could cement the leads of presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Democrat Mrs Clinton and Republican Mr Trump hold sizeable leads in all five contests, according to recent polling. Mr Trump's rivals have already shifted focus away from the north-east. Ted Cruz and John Kasich have teamed up to help each other in the Indiana, Oregon and New Mexico primaries.