Nigeria has inched forward in the bid to fast track completion of the $25 billion Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project, as the Federal Government yesterday, achieved another important milestone with the signing at the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), four significant Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) related to the project. Additionally, the project’s Steering Committee convened to discuss the progress of the Project and its strategic direction.
The MOUs were respectively and successively endorsed between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) of Morocco on one hand, and the Société Nationale des Opérations Pétrolières of Cote d’Ivoire (PETROCI), the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL), the Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures of Benin (SNH-Benin), and the Société Nationale des Pétroles of the Republic of Guinea (SONAP) on the other hand.
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Friday apologised to Nigerian Muslims over his comments on the leadership contest in the National Assembly.
“I am a human who is bound to make mistakes, I therefore seek your forgiveness and God’s,” Shettima stated.
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I have made it very clear to the security agencies that they have a responsibility to remain apolitical at all times. Under no circumstances should they get involved in anything that could compromise the democratic process, or bring disrepute to their institutions and to Nigeria.