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Seven inmates re-arrested after gunmen attacked Jos Correctional Centre — Police

The Plateau State Police Command has said that a total of seven inmates who escaped from the Jos Correctional Centre after gunmen attacked the facility on Sunday have been re-arrested.

The spokesman of the command, Ubah Ogaba who confirmed the development in a statement on Sunday night said, the medium-security custodial centre in Jos came under attack by unidentified gunmen where some inmates escaped.

The Commissioner of Police Plateau State Command, Bartholomew Onyeka who led reinforcement to the scene, directed that the entire centre be cordoned and directed immediate stop and search where seven escapees have been re-arrested by the police and are in custody while one escapee voluntarily surrendered himself to the police. 

 

Pirates kill 3 in twin attacks on oil facilities in Bayelsa, kidnap 7

Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates in the early hours of Sunday attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa State.

According to Newsmen, the pirates ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass Local Government areas of Bayelsa State.

Sources close to the affected oilfields said the gunmen reportedly shot dead two staff of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and a personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

The driver of their boat, an indigene of Okoroma community, is still missing, according to the sources who witnessed the incident. 

 

South Africa President Ramaphosa Calls for Lifting of Omicron Travel Bans

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbours over the new coronavirus variant Omicron.

Ramaphosa said he was deeply disappointed by the action, which he described as unjustified, and called for the bans to be urgently lifted.

The heavily mutated variant was detected in South Africa earlier this month and then reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) last Wednesday and is responsible for most of the infections found in South Africa’s most populated province, Gauteng, over the last two weeks, and is now present in all other provinces in the country.

In his speech on Sunday, Ramaphosa said there was no scientific basis for the travel bans and that southern Africa was the victim of unfair discrimination. 

 

In Push for Free Market, Nigeria Begins Implementation of New Gas Pricing Framework

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA)during the weekend said that it had established a new Domestic Base Price (DBP) framework and applicable gas wholesale price for the sector.

Chief Executive Officer of the organization, Farouk Ahmed, who said this in a statement in Abuja, stated that the new framework was in fulfilment of the relevant sections of the new Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021.

Ahmed indicated that the application of wholesale gas price for the power sector shall be the established domestic gas price.