NNPC Invites Process Licensors to Audit Re neries Targets 60 per cent capacity utilisation Chineme Okafor in Abuja to undertake process audits products into the country General Manager, Public courtesy call on him by the ending petroleum products on its four re neries in Port would reduce and the capacity Affairs of the corporation, management of Media Trust importation in a few years The Nigerian National Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna. utilisation of the re neries Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja Limited, publishers of Daily and that a concrete plan was Petroleum Corporation It said that when the increased to 60 per cent by stated that its Group Managing Trust Newspapers. on the ground to achieve this. (NNPC) said yesterday that it process audit is concluded, the end of 2017. Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, Baru explained that would invite external licensors its importation of petroleum A statement by the Group disclosed this during a the NNPC was keen on Continued on page MTN Kicks As Court Orders Another Forfeiture of Nbn to FG... Page Monday January, Vol . No . Price: N www.thisdaylive.com T RU N TH & REASO Presidency: How We Selected Benefi ciaries of N5000 Stipend to Poorest Nigerians Tobi Soniyi in Abuja The Presidency yesterday said that it used the World Bank’s Community Based Targeting (CBT) model, established two years ago, to select the bene ciaries of its N5000 monthly stipends to the poorest Nigerians. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja said the CBT model of the World Bank had been used two years ago to identify BRASS FERTILIZER COMPANY MAKING STRIDES most of the bene ciaries in Seated L-R: Chief Ben Okoye, Executive Vice Chairman, Brass Fertilizer & Petrochemical Company (BFPCL) and Mr. John Goodridge, Head of Marketing & the pilot states. Origination Europe, Africa & Russia, BP Oil International. Standing L-R: Gareth Hodder of White & Case LLP; Sanjay Patel of BFPCL; Mychael Obaseki, BP He said the World Bank was also an active agent Nigeria; Tom Fox, BP London; Abhishank Jajur, Taylor-Dejongh; Rema Shrestha and Alex Moulsdale, both of BP London, at the offi cial signing of the billion methanol off take agreement between BFPCL and BP Oil International, held in London… recently Continued on page Buhari Pledges to Recover More Abducted Chibok Girls Tobi Soniyi in Abuja and The president gave the country, nay, the world, today release of the youngsters will yet re-join their families will still return as soon as Victor Ogunjein in Ado Ekiti assurance in a statement commemorates the 1,000th day kidnapped by Boko Haram and loved ones. Three of them practicable," he quoted the yesterday in Abuja by his of the abduction of schoolgirls insurgents." have been recovered by our president as saying. As the kidnapped Chibok Special Adviser on Media and from Government Secondary "We are grateful to God diligent military, while the Adesina said Buhari Secondary School girls Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, School, Chibok, Borno State, that on this landmark day, freedom of 21 others was reiterated his pledge, spend 1000 days in captivity, to commemorate the 1000th President Muhammadu Buhari we are not completely in the secured through engagement pronounced many times in President Muhammadu Buhari day of the girls’ abduction. has recommitted the Federal depths of despair, but buoyed with their captors. We are the past, that government has given further assurance Adesina said: "As the Government to securing the with hope that our daughters hopeful that many more would not spare any efforts that the federal government to reunite the girls with their will spare no efforts to recover those still in captivity. Ex-Niger State Governor, Kure, Dies.. Page Continued on page MONDAY JANUARY , THISDAY THISDAY MONDAY JANUARY , MONDAY JANUARY , THISDAY THISDAY MONDAY JANUARY , MONDAY JANUARY , THISDAY Enjoy great discounts with Fidelity Bank Cards. Visit https://fidelitybank.ng/greendiscount to learn more. RC 103022 THISDAY MONDAY JANUARY , MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017 • THISDAY PAGE EIGHT Fulani Herdsmen Invade Adamawa Community, Kill 3 Policemen, 2 others Daji Sani in Yola were preparing to go to bed. development to journalists and by the special grace of occurred less than 24-hours sent delegations on Wednesday, The eyewitness said that the in Yola, said that four ries God we are going to recover after a government delegation Thursday, Friday and Saturday Suspected Fulani Herdsmen herdsmen and the policemen belonging to the policemen our men. On the side of the on peace building mission to interface with the different have invaded Kwayine manning the area had a dual were also missing. civilians, two bodies have so visited the area. communities in the area, a Community in Demsa gun-battle for several hours The dead policemen, he said, far been recovered.” The governor in a statement clash could occur so soon Local Government Area of before they overpowered were among those drafted to The police spokesman said by the Commissioner of thereafter,” he said. Adamawa State, killing ve the police and entered the secure Kwayine, Gidan Dadi the police killed scores of the Information and Strategy, He assured residents of persons, including three mobile community, burning it down. and Karlahi communities after militia, explaining, however Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, directed government’s resolve to policemen and two civilians. Conrming the incident, the clashes that followed the killing that the survivors escaped with security agencies to deploy restore peace to the affected Several people were wounded, Police Command in the state on of 47 cattle in the area. their dead colleagues. more personnel in the area. areas and protect the lives of while the community was Sunday conrmed the killing of “Fulani militia attacked the Othman said more policemen He described the attack as every citizen. completely burnt down. three mobile policemen and the three villages and we lost three had been drafted to the affected unfortunate and sad especially Bindow saluted the gallantry An eyewitness reported disappearance of two others. of our gallant MOPOL while areas. coming after the recent peace of the police in confronting that the suspected herdsmen The command’s Public two are missing,” Othman said, The state Governor, and condence building efforts. the attackers and urged them invaded the community on Relations Ofcer, SP Othman adding: “We have constituted Alhaji Mohammed Bindow, “The Governor feels highly not to relent until normalcy Saturday night when the locals Abubakar, who conrmed the a high powered search team condemned the attack, which disturbed that after he had is fully restored. PRESIDENCY: HOW WE SELECTED BENEFICIARIES OF N STIPEND TO POOREST NIGERIANS in the selection process, as partisan. The president is the CBT team. Then we (men, women and youths) to identify the households in informed that payments explaining, however, that president of the entire country train the selected ofcials on in the conversation around the community that had been must be at community level, the data collected belonged and the Social Intervention how to conduct focus group the criteria and parameters identied as tting the criteria so those banks engaged for to Nigeria. Programmes are for all discussions at community level. for determining the poorest and parameters. the pilot stage had in turn Akande gave the names of Nigerians as the case may be.” These focus groups comprise people. "Once that is done at the engaged several payment the nine pilot states where In addition to the nine pilot of women, men, youths, as He explained further that groups, everybody comes agents, to ensure cash-out the programme had started States, and with the release the community determines. the groups would then be together again with names to the beneciaries in their as Bauchi, Borno, Cross Rivers, of funds for the programmes, "After training them, the encouraged to identify those compiled by each group. places of residence. Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Osun the CBT model has now CBT teams now go to each households that fell within the Now, when the same name and Oyo and claried that commenced in other states. of their communities to criteria that the community is featured in at least two of reference to Ogun, instead of He said: "There is no way sensitize the leaders, including itself determined, and told the three groups, it is deemed NNPC INVITES Osun-among the pilot states- in anyone can describe the traditional rulers, on the CBT that the information was qualied to be listed on the PROCESS LICENSORS his last press statement on the selection of the beneciaries process and the necessity for required for government's Social Register," he added. issue was an error. of the Conditional Cash objectivity and openness in planning purposes. He said that at that stage, TO AUDIT REFINERIES He explained that in eight Transfer (CCT) as partisan the process. At that meeting, He said various poverty bank accounts were opened "We are putting together of the nine pilot states, the as the beneciaries from they rm up a date to convene criteria had been thrown up for each of the caregivers by various programmes to ensure selection process had taken eight of the nine pilot states a community meeting at a so far, explaining that in some capturing the biometric data that we achieve at least 60 place at least two years ago were picked even before this designated location within cases, people had said it was of households identied as per cent local rening by under a programme supported administration came into ofce. the community. the number of times they ate, among the poorest and the end of this year. It is the by the World Bank in an “First, the ofcials at federal "On the set date, discussions the number of times the fumes vulnerable.