The founder of Dangote Group equally thanked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and Nigerians in general for their unwavering belief in the mega project. This is contained in a statement shared on the company's X (formerly Twitter) account in the early hours of Saturday, January 13, 2023. The company also confirmed that the multi-billion dollar Dangote Refinery, located in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, has finally commenced production.
Ah, Yuletide! The burgeoning darkness, the bitter cold, the twinkling lights, the existential angst. Whether you participate in holiday rituals for spiritual reasons, because you crave nostalgia, out of familial duty, or just because you need a break, already and a reason to celebrate something—anything—there’s no denying our cultural attachment to making this time of year special or festive or at least indulgent. This is our second year in the full throes of a global pandemic which shows no sign of abating.
Full Name: Donald Arthur Mattingly
Profession: Baseball Player and Manager
Biography: Don Mattingly was an outstanding first baseman who spent his entire major league baseball playing career with the New York Yankees (1982-95). He was a 6-time All-Star (1984–89); AL MVP (1985); 9-time Gold Glove Award winner (1985–89, 1991–94), 3-time Silver Slugger Award winner (1985–87); AL batting champion (1984); and AL RBI leader (1985).
Mattingly served as captain of the Yankees (1991-95), when he retired as a player.
Sanusi made the call on Tuesday during traditional Hawan Nasarawa at the Government House, Kano. He also urged the state government to enlighten the people of the state, especially the youths on the importance of peace. Sanusi called on the state government to provide pesticides to farmers whose crops were affected by insects and pests in some local government areas of the state. ADVERTISEMENT
The royal father then called on government to ensure sanitation in order to avoid flooding.
There are certain things so ubiquitous—things we all have used and enjoyed like we share equal ownership over them—that it is hard to imagine any single mortal person creating them. Things like this:
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But the emoticon, that display of feeling crafted from punctuation, does have a birth story, and it unfolded exactly 32 years ago today, on Sept. 19, 1982.
Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon, noticed that conversations were going awry on electronic message boards the staff was using to communicate in the early 1980s.
A female cyclist who was soaring past her competitors during a renowned bicycle race in Belgium was abruptly forced to stop for several minutes when she came too close to the “very slow” men’s race ahead of her.
The cyclist, Nicole Hanselmann, described the “awkward moment” in an Instagram post after Saturday’s annual Omloop Het Nieuwsblad race, during which male cyclists were given an eight-minute head start.
As the race progressed, Hanselmann built a lead of almost two minutes against the other women cyclists and “almost saw the back of the men’s peloton.
In a challenging and plain-spoken document, the Church of England last week called on all Britons to revise their think ing about sexual offenders. A special council set up to study the problem said that the church sternly and without reservation “condemns all infractions of the Christian teaching on sexual chastity,” but nevertheless contends that “long experience has shown that it is futile to attempt to crush sexual immorality by statutory measures and police action.
Most of the time, reality shows about real estate aren’t exactly a hotbed of controversy. But if the intersection of duck calls and TV has shown anything, there’s always a chance that off-screen reality can interfere with a network’s best laid plans.
The latest example of that phenomenon has some bloggers up in arms this week, as HGTV announced plans not to create the planned show Flip It Forward shortly after a connection was made between its stars and anti-gay activism.
The Roy family is lawyering up. The Season 3 premiere of Succession, which aired Sunday night on HBO, picks up in the aftermath of Kendall alleging publicly that his father Logan personally oversaw the decades-long cover-up of sexual exploitation and intimidation at Waystar Royco. As Kendall and Logan organize their own defenses, the rest of the family is sent scrambling to figure out how legally vulnerable they each might be in the impending war.
In the January season 25 opener of The Bachelor, host Chris Harrison introduced Matt James, the show’s new lead, as a trailblazer ushering in a series of firsts for the show. Breaking with tradition, James, a then 28-year old North Carolina native and New York City-based real estate agent, was cast as the Bachelor without first appearing on The Bachelorette or any other Bachelor franchise shows. James is the first Bachelor to film his season during a pandemic.