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Plans to recruit more troops to tackle insecurity.

emelogist  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has assured that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was deliberating on comprehensive ways to address the security situation in the country including plans for new recruitment to beef up the personnel of security agencies in order to contain the threats and security concerns in the land. According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo made this disclosure Monday when he had audience with clergymen from the north under the auspices of the Arewa Pastors Forum for Peace, who were on a courtesy visit to the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Vice President assured the pastors “we are doing everything that needs to be done. “We are handling security well, and as you know, including military deployment in diverse fields, like the Boko Haram in the Northeast.“In fact, we have to now recruit more into the army, and much faster than we ever did because we need men...

African energy ministers, experts to storm Abuja for NIPS 2020

emelogist According to James Shindi, Managing Director of Brevity Anderson, the event producer, the theme of this year’s edition, ‘Widening the Integration Circle: Technology, Knowledge, Sustainability, Partnership’, is apt considering the presence of the African ministers at the summit. He said some of the African energy ministers who have confirmed their attendance include Mr Noel Mboumba, Minister of Oil, Gas and Hydrocarbons, Gabon; Mr Foumakoye Gado, Minister of Petroleum, Republic of Niger; Mike Sangster, Mr Mustapha Sanalla, Libya Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NOC and Mr Jean-Marc Thystere, Minister of Hydrocarbon, Republic of Congo. “It has been our tradition from inception. We gather the best brains and key policymakers from across the continent to chart the way forward and posit strategies for the management of Africa’s huge hydrocarbon resources. The summit, which will be declared open by President Muhammadu Buhari, with the Minister of State for Petr...