Author: Chronicle Editor

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has a 36-day petrol stock, enough to wet the country, its Group General Manager, Dr Maikanti Baru, has said. Speaking during a courtesy visit by the management of the New Telegraph newspaper in Abuja, Dr Baru said that as the supplier of last resort, the Corporation would continue to live up to its responsibility by intervening in the supply of deregulated petroleum products like diesel, jet fuel, kerosene and cooking gas to ensure supply sufficiency. “We have consistently brought in between 30, 000 to 45, 000 metric tons of diesel on the average every…

Sunderland scored four first-half goals to thrash Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park as the Black Cats moved level on points with their Premier League relegation rivals. Lamine Kone reacted quickest to Wayne Hennessey’s spill to steer in Sunderland’s opener after 10 minutes. The visitors then scored three goals in six minutes in a stunning end to the first half as Didier Ndong struck a superb effort from 25 yards before Jermain Defoe punished lax Palace defending with two excellent finishes. It’s all over. It was a BIG game and it’s a BIG win in south London for #SAFC and a…

Romelu Lukaku helped himself to four goals as Everton extended their unbeaten Premier League run to seven games with a thrilling victory over battling Bournemouth at Goodison Park. Everton finished the game by winning 6-3. Lukaku curled home an exquisite opener after just 30 seconds to equal the record for the fastest league goal of the season set by Chelsea’s Pedro against Manchester United. What a crazy game. @RomeluLukaku9 gets four as the Blues hit @afcbournemouth for six at Goodison.Up the Toffees! #EFCmatchday pic.twitter.com/DmoJVaEAts— Everton (@Everton) February 4, 2017 Lukaku’s trickery set up James McCarthy for Everton’s second before the…

Liverpool’s winless run continued at the KCOM Stadium as Hull City defeated the Reds 2-0 to secure a much needed victory. The Tigers have now leaped past Sunderland and Crystal Palace to number 18 on the league table. Hull have looked a different side since Marco Silva succeeded Mike Phelan and a win against Liverpool all but showed the mentality of the premier league bottom side. Alfred N’Diaye gave The Tigers the lead a minute before half time to give them the needed boost in the second half. Jordan Henderson was denied by Eldin Jakupovic but Hull, who have won…

Just hours after he returned to Nigeria, former Delta governor, James Ibori was having a chat with the Department of State Services (DSS). This chat was not a friendly one, but rather an intense interrogation in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Saturday morning. Ibori who arrived Nigeria on a chartered private plane was expected to fly him to Warri and was to land at Osubi airfield operated by Shell. Ibori was jailed in April 2012 for fraud amounting to nearly 50 million pounds (at the time $78.5 million/62 million euros) following a drawn-out extradition procedure and his evasion of arrest and…

US President Donald Trump has vowed to overturn a legal ruling which suspended his ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. He described federal judge James Robart as a “so-called” justice whose “ridiculous” opinion “essentially takes law-enforcement away from” the US. Judge Robart ruled on Friday that the prohibition was unconstitutional. A number of airlines have said they are allowing nationals targeted by the ban to board flights to America. “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” Mr Trump said on Twitter. The opinion of this…

The APC Northern Musicians Forum has said it will not participate in the planned protest by Nigerian music icon, TuBaba Idibia. Tubaba is organising the protest against what he alleged as the suffering in Nigerian. Haruna Ningi, Chairman of the Forum, who made the remark at a media briefing in Kaduna, said that the protest was different from the ideology of the forum. He, however, agreed that Nigerians were suffering, but insisted that the present administration met nearly an empty treasury and had to increase savings, to get Nigerians out of the present situation. Ningi urged Nigerians to be patient…

One of Nigeria’s most powerful men, who was jailed in Britain for money laundering and fraud in a landmark anti-corruption case, has returned home, his aides told AFP on Saturday. “Chief James Ibori has arrived. He landed in Abuja in the early hours,” said Ighoyota Amori, a political adviser to Ibori, who was governor of the oil-rich Delta state between 1999 and 2007. He said Ibori, who was released in London in December after serving just over four years of a 13-year jail term, would later fly to the southern port city of Warri in Delta state. “A chartered private…

Chelsea reiterated their stance at the summit of the English Premier League with a resounding 3-1 victory over London rivals and title hopefuls Arsenal at the Stamford Bridge. Marcos Alonso gave Chelsea the lead after a Diego Costa header ricochet off the post but it was Eden Hazard’s individual strike in the second half that highlighted Chelsea’s performance. Former Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas replaced Hazard and scored within one minute of coming on after former Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech cleared the ball directly to his path. But there was still time for Olivier Giroud to score against Chelsea to ensure…

As today, 4 February marks the World Cancer Day, Bracket Foundation and Bricon Foundation have collaborated to launch ‘B2 for Life’, an initiative aimed at giving succour to cancer patients in Nigeria. Bracket Foundation is co-founded by the popular singing duo of Vast (Ozioko Nwachukwu) and Smash (Obumneme Ali), while Bricon Foundation on the other hand is co-founded by Abigail Simon-Hart and Dr Niyi Adekeye. Both Abigail and Vast are cancer survivors and the foundations were set up in 2016 with a view of providing much needed funding for cancer patients in Nigeria. Having both had their treatment in the…