“Battle oil mafia; NNPCL should make refineries work” – Obaigbena

Obaigbena on Oil mafia

Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY Media Group and ARISE news channel, Nduka Obaigbena, has challenged the Federal Government to put the four government-owned refineries in the country to work, to checkmate the oil mafias in the country. Obaigbena, speaking as the Chairman of the All Nigeria Editors Conference in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said, “If we are going to use whatever means to deal with the oil mafias, we should keep our refineries alive. If you say you want to stop monopoly, then our four refineries must work. Let those four…

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National Rebirth: Nigerian Eminent leaders meet in Lagos, seek consensus

As part of efforts to achieve a new consensus for national rebirth, eminent Nigerian leaders on the auspices of ‘The 2022 Committee’, which comprises prominent business, political, civil society, and thought leaders, have met in Lagos. This was made known in a statement released in Abuja yesterday, and co-signed on behalf of the conveners by the convener and chairman of ThisDay/Arise Media Group, Nduka Obaigbena, and a former presidential liaison officer to the Senate and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam. The non-partisan retreat…

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The 2022 Committee: Eminent Leaders meet in Lagos, discuss national rebirth

One hundred prominent business, political, civil society, and thought leaders have met in a non-partisan retreat to map a new consensus for national rebirth. According to the group’s conveners, in an issued statement on Wednesday, signed by Chairman of ThisDay/Arise Media Group, Nduka Ogbaibena and former Presidential Liaison Officer to the Senate, Kashim Imam respectively, the meeting held in Lagos between last Friday and Sunday under the aegis of ‘The 2022 Committee’. Also among the attendees were 14 serving State governors, 13 former governors, as well as three former Senate…

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