P/Harcourt refinery begins operations soon - NNPC
“In this regard, I urge that all necessary steps be immediately taken to reinvigorate the Regional Intelligence Fusion Unit (RIFU).”
President Buhari noted the common resolve and commitment of member states to maintain the momentum in degrading the capacity of the insurgents until they are completely defeated.
“I had raised this issue at my meeting with the G7 leaders, while I am encouraged by their support, I also urge you to garner the support of your international friends and partners to sustain this campaign”, he said. He also said the campaign against Boko Haram must be seen within the wider context of the global war against terror.
“Terrorism has no frontiers and must, because of the great implication for regional and global peace and security, be defeated, he said”.
The president advised against a proposal presented at the meeting to rotate leadership of the command and control structure of the Multinational Joint Task Force.
He said while he agreed that this was a joint operation with shared responsibilities, he was of the opinion that military operations subjected to a rapid turnover of command and control structures, every six months as being proposed did not augur well for effectiveness and efficiency.
“Such a process will undermine, even if it is not intended, the military capacity to sustain the push against the insurgents who also have the uncanny ability to adapt and re-jig their operational strategies”, he said.
He urged his colleagues to allow Nigeria to retain the position of the Force Commander of the MNJTF for the period of the war effort.
According to him, this command will be to the effectiveness of military strategy since Nigeria would be providing the bulk of the Speaker of the House of troops and the main theatre of the Representatives, Yakubu war is on Nigerian soil. Dogara yesterday said President
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He commiserated with families impose anybody on us. It was his of the fallen gallant soldiers, stand on this matter that gave saying: “We fervently pray that us the encouragement to offer this war will soon come to an end ourselves for this leadership,” he and that the muchsaid.neededpeace and securityDand progress will be ushered into our sub-region”.
Also in attendance were Ministers of Defence of Niger, Chad and Benin as well as the Executive Secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, Sanusi Imran Abdullahi.
The commission is made up of Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad and Niger Republic, but Benin Republic is co-opted as a strategic partner in war against insurgency.
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said Port Harcourt refinery will start its operation of crude refining by June end, consequently contributing to more petroleum products availability nationwide.
The Group Managing Director of NNPC Dr Joseph Dawha while inspecting some petrol stations in Abuja yesterday also said the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) will end this week in the country.
It would be recalled that PMS
ogara however said the period of politics was over and the daunting challenge waiting his leadership is the unification of all divisions towards supporting the Buhari government.
The speaker said this during series of courtesy calls by state caucuses of the House, who pledged their allegiance.
The visiting causes include Kano, Jigawa, Adamawa, Imo, Gombe and Katsina states. popularly called petrol has been in high demand with low supply levels for several weeks. The refining of crude within the country will help augment the product’s availability.
In his address, Dawha said “presently, the refineries are undergoing rehabilitation and we are undertaking what we call a new strategy to carry out the turnaround maintenance on them.
“Most of the refineries have advanced to a certain stage where they will be able to operate very soon. For example, the Port Harcourt refinery which has reached an advanced stage will start receiving crude by end of this month and then of course will start contributing to the available products in the country,” he said.
NNPC has four refineries, two in Port Harcourt, and one each in Kaduna and Warri. The refineries have a combined installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day which could be distributed across the vast network of pipelines and depots spread across Nigeria.
“At the end of the target 18 months, most of the refineries would have been rehabilitated to such level where they can actually process crude optimally to make contributions to the availability of products in the country,” he said.