ENGINEERS FAROUK AHMED, GBENGA KOMOLAFE RESIGN, PRESIDENT TINUBU NOMINATES SUCCESSORS TO THE SENATE FOR APPROVAL. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.
STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE ENGINEERS FAROUK AHMED, GBENGA KOMOLAFE RESIGN, PRESIDENT TINUBU NOMINATES SUCCESSORS TO THE SENATE FOR APPROVAL President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Senate to approve the nominations of two new chief executives for the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). The requests followed the resignation of Engineer Farouk Ahmed of the NMDPRA and Gbenga Komolafe of the NUPRC. Both officials were appointed in 2021 by former President Buhari to lead the two regulatory agencies created by the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). To fill these positions, President Tinubu has written to the Senate, requesting expedited confirmation of Oritsemeyiwa Amanorisewo Eyesan as CEO of NUPRC and Engineer Saidu Aliyu Mohammed as CEO of NMDPRA. The two nominees are seasoned professionals in the oil and gas industry. Eyesan, a graduate of Economics f...
Today monday Professor Wole Soyink disclosed that he never applied for an American Green Card and it was the former United States President,Jimmy Carter who got it for him.Soyinka,at a press conference at the Freedom Park,Lagos,Southwest Nigeria also took a swipe at Nigerians who criticised him and wanted to know if h would abide by his comment to dump his green card if Donald Trump should win.An unhappy Soyinka said his decision to dump the green card if Trump should win was personal and was no business of any Nigerian,decrying that unwarranted comments and insults against his personality on social media by bloggers and the rest was uncalled for because they were not the ones who got the green card for him.''Let us look at the phenomenon of this green card,I called it Jimmy Carter's card.Jimmy Carter got it for me.I was teaching then at Emory University.The President of my University,William Chase had applied for a green card for me,I was then on E1/B2 visa which allowed you to teach or to work in the US for a limited period.Finally my department head and president said to me,look,you should get a green card.They insisted and they went ahead.When you are about to move from one grade to the other,either a kind of visa to the next or from that visa to green card,you become a prisoner.You cannot leave the US unless you get what is known as exeat,if you do,you cannot come back to the US,you must wait and get an exeat,'' he explained.''I really I am puzzled.I don't know what the hazzle is all about,if I decide I want to leave the US and in a particular way,that is my business and not the business of the millipedes of internet who claw out at any excuse and lips flying in their trade.I don't know what the excitation is,why do Nigerians tend to wail louder than the bereaved?.What is your business? I am addressing those illiterates who feel that they have to make themselves heard and have to express opinion about everything,whether it concerns them or not and resort to vulgar abuse and insult simply because they are scared just because one person is saying I have had enough of the state.I just want to take a walk.This is simply a personal issue,'' he said.
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