NNPC not funding Saraki’s impeachment plot – Baru

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has distanced its Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru from trending reports insinuating that he had doled out funds to effect the impeachment of Senate President Bukola Saraki.

The corporation in a statement by its spokesman Ndu Ughamadu said the report was the handiwork of mischief makers seeking to drag the NNPC and its GMD into political affair totally different from its mandate.

The NNPC said the report was not only false but an affront on the verifiable reforms in the operations of the corporation under Dr Baru.

The statement said it was mere fiction and outright “tales by moonlight” for anybody to insinuate that Dr Baru or anybody else could just take a dip into the corporation’s till and dole out the volume of funds being portrayed in the phantom report for political purpose.

The NNPC called on all well-meaning members of the public and oil and gas industry stakeholders to discountenance the said story. The Nigerian Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) said on Sunday that a total of 313 of its officers in the rank of majors and captains across Army formations in the country will be sitting for the senior staff course qualifying examination this year.

The TRADOC Commander, Maj.-Gen Ademoh Salihu said in Kaduna that the exams would begin from Aug. 6, at the Headquarters, Infantry Corps Center, Jaji Military Cantonment in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State .

Salihu said that the lot of 313 majors and captains were selected for the Senior Staff Course Qualifying examination which would run till Aug. 10.

Salihu who was also President, Army Examination Panel, explained that the test was compulsory for the personnel to qualify for senior staff course. “The exams will determine their progress in the army and is also an assessment of their level of proficiency in the army,” Salihu said.

The Commander explained that a candidate must score at least 50 per cent in each paper, adding that there would be no excuse for failure as the personnel were assumed to have garnered enough experience in their fields of assignment. (NAN)