GERMANY AND AUSTRIA TO TAP OIL RESERVES AFTER 400 MILLION BARRELS REQUESTED. (PHOTO).

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 Germany and Austria to tap oil reserves after 400 million barrels requested  Germany and Austria announced they are releasing portions of their oil reserves in response to an International Energy Agency request for member nations to collectively release 400 million barrels to help ease rising energy prices linked to the Iran conflict. Japan also said it will begin releasing part of its reserves starting Monday. The move marks one of the largest coordinated releases of emergency oil stocks in history. The previous record came in 2022, when IEA members released 182.7 million barrels following the energy disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Member countries currently hold over 1.2 billion barrels of public emergency oil stocks, along with an additional 600 million barrels of industry stocks maintained under government requirements. The release comes amid heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf, where Iran has targeted commercial ships and disrupted shipping throug...

LAGOS TO LINK INNER ROADS TO SMART CITY PROJECT+SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TO BE INSTALLED NEXT MONTH.{PHOTOS}.

                       Lagos State Governor,Mr Akinwunmi Ambode today friday said plans are afoot to link inner roads in the State to the Lagos Smart City Project,just as he expressed readiness to commence deployment of Close Circuit Television {CCTV} Cameras in October across the State.Goovernor Ambode,who disclosed this in Coker Aguda area of the State at the commissioning of some of the 144 roads,newly constructed in the 20 Local Government Areas {LGs} and 37 Local Council Development Areas {LCDAs},said Government will complement the project with strategic security management driven by tecnology.The Governor,who was represented by the Commissioner for Science and Technology,Mr Olufemi Odubuyi at the commissioning of 500 meters Bolaji Banwo Street in Coker Aguda LDA,said security remained one of the cardinal objectives of his adminstration,an that technology will play a key role in securing residents.Also in Coker Aguda LCDA,Governor Ambode commissioned 580meters Opere Street through a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Surulere Constituency 1,Desmond Elliot.Speaking to journalists,the Governor said: ''One of the cardinal areas in which we focus on is security in the state and we have realised that the man policing we have in Lagos is not sufficient if you look at the ratio of the policemen that we have to the citizens of the State.''We have come up with an initiative which is an ongoing project and it is called the Smart City Project.In the area of security,we are going to be deploying CCTV Cameras to ensure that when you are sleeping,you have a guaranty that you are being watched.The present administration is interested in making sure that this city is safe and technology is one of the areas we looking at by deploying CCTV Cameras which will be linked to our Command and Control Centre in Alausa.We are going to have an eye over Lagos and this is because of the importance this government is paying to security of lives and property''.More photos below.

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