Nigeria's Dangote Refinery Starts Up with First Shipment of Crude Oil An important turning point for Nigeria's oil sector is the $20 billion Dangote refinery, which is about to start operations. The OTIS tanker, carrying 950,000 barrels of Nigerian Agbami crude oil, delivered the refinery its first cargo of crude oil. The cargo marks the start of operations at the much-awaited facility and was chartered by the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). Escravos, Bonny Light, and Forcados are among the several kinds of crude that the Dangote refinery is equipped to handle.

This project is anticipated to greatly lessen Nigeria's need for imported gasoline while also supporting the country's oil sector. With a 20% ownership in the refinery, the NNPC has promised to provide 6 million barrels of crude oil in December to get things going. Even with significant delays anticipated, the refinery is expected to run at full capacity by mid-2025. Nigeria's Oil Landscape is Changing With the start of operations, the Dangote refinery will provide more than 12% of Africa's product demand, changing the face of Nigeria's oil business. The refinery is estimated to provide over 100,000 jobs once operations eventually get going.

The advent of the refinery was heralded as a historic occasion, igniting expectations that gasoline production would become self-sufficient by the 2040s. The Atlantic Basin's oil trade is about to be greatly impacted by the Dangote refinery. Fuels produced in the US and Europe that have long been used to power automobiles, trucks, and generators on the continent will no longer have a profitable market. The refinery's activities highlight the importance of increasing local supply, which is seen to be essential for sustainability and to benefit Nigeria. Nigeria's oil sector has entered a new chapter with the opening of the Dangote refinery, opening the door to a more independent and sustainable future.

In his pre-game press conference, Mikel Arteta gives the most recent information about the Arsenal team before their Premier League trip to Aston Villa. Mikel Arteta Discusses Takehiro Tomiyasu's Near-Death Experience Mikel Arteta spoke to the media before Arsenal's Saturday trip to Aston Villa. It will be a statement for Unai Emery's team to pick up three more points away from home at Villa Park after they defeated Manchester City in the middle of the week.

Takehiro Tomiyasu's recent injury, though, has hurt the team. The Japanese international was in excellent form and would have been a great asset for Arteta's team's next three tough opponents, so it came at the worst possible moment. Following the dramatic events at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday night, Arteta gave a team update for the upcoming weekend. Throughout the game, Gabriel Martinelli was kicked quite a few times and came off. However, Mikel Arteta seemed optimistic when questioned about the Brazilian. "Everyone will be alright, I believe," he remarked.

But he did share further details about the most recent developments about Thomas Partey, who has been absent following surgery. Though there had been hints that he may make it to Liverpool, Arteta remained pessimistic about this as a possible return date.

When the Ghanaian is not around, Jorginho may still help Declan Rice. Kai Havertz has also appeared to have significantly improved as of late. On Saturday at 17:30 UK Time, Arsenal takes on Aston Villa. On their matchday blog, football. London will provide all the news and analysis beginning four hours before to kickoff.

Bayo Adelabu, Nigeria's Minister of Power, Rejoins the APC Nigeria's Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, has declared his decision to rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC), marking a momentous political move. Having previously run for Oyo State governor under the banner of the Accord Party, his move represents a significant change in the political climate in Nigeria. Going Back to the Fold Adelabu declared his formal return to the APC in a letter dated December 6, 2023, which was written to the APC state chairman and party leaders in Oyo State.

On December 15, 2023, the APC Secretariat in Oke Ado will host this momentous occasion. Adelabu stressed the importance of the occasion and said he hoped leaders, local government party chairmen, and the state administration would be there. Reconciliation and Revisited Goals Due to disagreements over the state assembly and primary elections, Adelabu left the APC amid a time of internal unrest. But he ultimately decided to rejoin the party following extensive discussions with APC officials and national leaders.

During a polite visit to the national head of the party, this decision was disclosed. As an official in President Tinubu's cabinet, Adelabu anticipates a fruitful partnership with the APC. His motivation comes from his desire to see Oyo State under APC rule by 2027 and to carry out the president's Renewed Hope Agenda. Charting a Path for Oyo State Adelabu wants to rejoin the APC for developmental reasons in addition to political ones. Under the APC-led administration, he wants to spur Oyo State's historic progress. Adelabu's return indicates a fresh dedication to the people of Oyo State and a bright future for the area under the APC's leadership because his objectives coincide with the party's platform.

Amid Israel's ground attack in Gaza, videos showing men wearing blindfolds and only their underpants have been making the rounds on social media in the last few hours. Israeli television aired images purportedly showing detained Hamas fighters in Gaza City.

Seated on the ground with their wrists tied behind their backs and heads bent, the Palestinians, most of whom are young, are visible. They are seen being taken in the back of an Israeli military truck in one of the clips. One of the people reportedly taken on Thursday morning is Diaa Al-Kahlot, the reporter for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed in the northern part of the region.

The journalist's family later informed the outlet of his detention, although the outlet had lost communication with him in the afternoon. Israeli troops 'arrest, target, and murder journalists on purpose to stop them from exposing their atrocities in Gaza,' according to editor-in-chief Hossam Kanafani.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed its "deep concern" at the news of the correspondent's detention along with his relatives.

One of the few pan-Arab news organizations currently operating in northern Gaza is Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. While denying any ties to Hamas or any other organization, some Palestinians living overseas also recognized relatives in the images and recordings. Seeing his family in the photo, Hani Almadhoun, a Palestinian-American living in the US state of Virginia, emphasized that they were "innocent civilians with no links to Hamas or any other faction." Speaking, he stated: "They took them from a family-owned house near the market."

They took into custody my father, 72, my brother Mahmoud, 32, his kid Omar, 13, my nephew Aboud, 27, and a few of our in-laws. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not yet provided a statement about the mass arrests, and Metro.co.uk was unable to confirm the posted footage and images independently. According to Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari, soldiers are engaged in combat with terrorists within Hamas' "centers of gravity." He declared:

"Those who remain in the area during this fighting emerge from tunnels and some houses. We investigate to see who is affiliated with Hamas and who is not; we detain and question everyone." Hagari would not comment on the photos, but he did mention that hundreds of suspected militants have been questioned so far and that a large number of them had turned themselves in on the last day. In the meantime, the IDF allegedly imprisoned and brutally mistreated scores of Palestinian residents in northern Gaza, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Days they were passed as soldiers barricaded two refuge centers in the town of Beit Lahia, beating and disrobing the men of their clothing.

A guy seeking £350,000 in compensation says he was "viciously assaulted" by Mike Tyson on a commercial flight. On a JetBlue aircraft from San Francisco in April, the former world heavyweight boxing champion was seen on camera striking passenger Melvin Townsend repeatedly. Video captured on a cell phone seemed to show Tyson,57, bending over the back of his seat and striking the passenger repeatedly while another man utters the following:

 "Hey Mike, Mike, let's stop that, c'mon." At the time, a Tyson agent said that the passenger had been combative. "Unfortunately, Mr Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat," stated the representative for Tyson. According to The Sun, Mr. Townsend's attorneys are now requesting £350,000 in damages after he had significant medical expenses.

His attorneys assert that he had a concussion, a head contusion, and discomfort in his head and neck as a result of the incident.

"If we are unable to reach an agreement, we will continue to prepare Mr. Townsend's case for the filing of a lawsuit," said a letter to Tyson's lawyers. It goes on: "A detailed account of the incidents at hand is unnecessary because there is a lot of footage online showing Mr. Tyson striking Mr. Townsend repeatedly. To put it briefly, our stance is that Mr. Townsend grew irritated with Mr. Tyson when he started talking about the marijuana business and psychoactive mushrooms with your client on the flight.

"Mr. Tyson then reached over the seat, grabbed Mr. Townsend by the shirt collar, and proceeded to repeatedly punch him in the head." "There will be no shakedown payment," said Alex Spiro, Tyson's attorney, in response to the settlement request. "I have received a shakedown letter related to some instigator's harassment of Mike a year ago and the aftermath."

Wednesday saw intense ground battle between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists in Gaza as the Israelis broke through the damaged Palestinian enclave and arrived in the center of the southern city of Khan Younis.

Moreover, in one of the most intense battles in the two months since the start of the Hamas-Israel conflict, Israeli jets barraged targets.

Palestinian medical professionals said that supplies were running low and that hospitals were bursting at the seams with civilian casualties, many of them women and children. There were fewer and fewer secure places for the hundreds of thousands of individuals who had been uprooted from their homes.

To destroy Hamas, Israeli forces and tanks have mostly taken control of the northern portion of the Gaza Strip and have now advanced to the southern portion. When a truce broke last week, they unleashed a wave of violence that surrounded Khan Younis.

Israel said on Wednesday that its forces were engaged in intense combat and that they had hit hundreds of targets within the enclave, including a terrorist cell close to a northern school.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas, also said that its militants were involved in combat with Israeli soldiers.

On Tuesday, 24 military vehicles were damaged and eight Israeli troops were reported killed or injured by Hamas. Israel said that since the ground assault started five weeks ago, 84 of its troops had died.

Medecins Sans Frontieres said that hundreds of patients at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza require emergency care due to severely low levels of fuel and medical supplies.

Since December 1, 150 to 200 war-wounded patients on average have been admitted to the hospital every day, according to Marie-Aure Perreault Revial, the emergency coordinator for MSF.

"There are 700 patients admitted in the hospital now, with new patients arriving all the time," she stated.

Israel has been publishing an internet map to inform Gazans of where areas of the enclave should flee to prevent assaults ever since the truce broke down. On Monday, the eastern part of Khan Younis was demarcated, and many of its inhabitants fled on foot.

However, Gazans claim that there is nowhere safe to go because Israel is still bombing the places where it is ordering Palestinians to go, and the few remaining communities and shelters are already overrun.

Israel investigates Lebanon strike

In an apparent reference to Israeli shelling that left a Lebanese soldier dead and three others wounded the day before, the Israeli army stated on Wednesday that it was investigating a strike that injured Lebanese forces in south Lebanon.

"The strike did not target the Lebanese Armed Forces. The event has been regretted by the IDF. The Israeli military released a statement saying, "The incident is under review."

Since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian organization Hamas on October 7, Israel and the highly armed Lebanese militia Hezbollah have been exchanging gunfire across the Lebanese-Israeli border.

The soldier, a sergeant, was killed on Tuesday when Israel shelled an army post in Lebanon, according to the army.

From a "known launch area and observation point" used by Hezbollah, the Israeli army said that its forces had engaged in "self-defense to eliminate an imminent threat that had been identified from Lebanon".

On Tuesday, Arsenal defeated Luton 4-3 thanks to another goal from Kai Havertz. In the sixtyth minute, the 24-year-old was used in center midfield at Kenilworth Road and dashed into the area to finish off a deft cross from Gabriel Jesus. Despite playing left back for his nation, Havertz has already netted four goals in his previous six appearances for Arsenal and Germany.

Havertz was acquired by Arsenal from Chelsea in June. According to Sky Sports, the Gunners had to pay a transfer price of £65 million for him. Three years prior, Chelsea signed a player who had scored 38 goals in his last two seasons in Germany for a staggering £75 million from Bayer Leverkusen. Havertz is renowned for scoring the game-winning goal for Chelsea.

Even yet, a sizable portion of Blues fans still thought he was a bust when he left Stamford Bridge with just 19 goals in 91 Premier League outings.

Havertz was the only player with five shots on Tuesday, even though he was playing in the middle of the field. In addition, he made four crucial passes. Havertz made two tackles and prevailed in six aerial contests against Luton in terms of physicality.

Havertz became the face of Chelsea's frequently brash assault when he lost his way at Stamford Bridge. However, he has been given the freedom to reinvent himself under Mikel Arteta. Havertz received a lot of flak at Chelsea for his shoddy first touch in and around the area.

Although hold-up play and precision finishing were never his strong points, the criticism was frequently warranted. Havertz's final three goals for Arsenal include two goals that perfectly exemplify his attacking strengths. That involves timing his runs to take advantage of space generated by a no. 9 and completing on autopilot before he has a chance to second-guess himself.

It's possible that Chelsea gave Arsenal a bad striker. However, the Gunners acquired a superb goal-scoring midfield player.

Osimhen accepted the Italian Footballer of the Year Award with his German partner at his side.

The 24-year-old striker for the Super Eagles of Nigeria took up the accolade on Monday night, following his historic Scudetto-winning performance with Napoli in the 2022–23 campaign. Since its founding in 1968, the AIC awards have given rise to a number of prestigious titles, such as goal of the season, club of the year, coach of the year, and squad of the year.

The Player of the Year award, which has previously gone to players like Rafael Leao, Gianluigi Buffon, Cristiano Ronaldo, Andrea Pirlo, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, was the most coveted prize of the evening and the last to be given out.

Osimhen scored 26 goals in 36 Serie A appearances for Napoli during their Scudetto-winning campaign, and as a result, he was chosen as the winner of the 2023 edition.

For the third time this year, the Napoli forward made public his relationship with Stefanie Kim Ladewig, his longtime girlfriend and child's mother. Wearing a stunning black gown, the German beauty of Cameroonian origin stepped up to support her spouse, who won the night's greatest prize.

The couple is said to be living together in Italy with their daughter Hailey True, despite the fact that they have kept certain aspects of their relationship confidential.

The $25 billion Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) is scheduled to start in 2024, according to Ekperikpe Ekpo, Nigeria's minister of energy. On November 27, Ekpo disclosed the building timeline that was scheduled to take place. This came after a Moroccan team headed by Ambassador Moha Ou Ali Tagm visited Abuja.

Construction on the $25 billion Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) is scheduled to start in 2024, according to Ekperikpe Ekpo, Nigeria's minister of energy. On November 27, Ekpo disclosed the building timeline that was scheduled to take place. This came after a Moroccan team headed by Ambassador Moha Ou Ali Tagm visited Abuja. The pipeline is expected to be the second-longest pipeline in the world, after the West-East Gas Pipeline in China, and will cover 5,600 kilometers while passing through 13 African nations and providing service to about 500 million people.

Gas from Nigeria is to be transported to West African countries via the NMGP, with the possibility of expansion into Europe. Nigeria could be able to sell gas to Europe and make a sizable profit in addition to supplying gas to the African continent. Phases of the construction would be completed in three years for the first stage and five years for the other stages. The pipeline is slated to start in Brass Island in Nigeria and go up into northern Morocco, where it may eventually join the Maghreb European Pipeline, which already runs from Algeria to Spain.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd (NNPCL) asserts that the pipeline will increase regional economic integration, create jobs, raise living standards, and drastically cut carbon emissions.

For the gas pipeline project, Morocco and Nigeria signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on September 15 of last year. However, the pipeline agreement was first proposed in 2016 by Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari and Morocco's King Mohammed VI. Nigerian and Moroccan officials signed a funding agreement for a feasibility study in December 2021, following the project's approval by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

A $20 billion airport in the middle of the ocean is shocking to many. The airport serves both local and international travel, and although it boasts a remarkable selection of stores, like Chanel, Hermes, and Cartier, in addition to dining options, what really leaves social media users in awe is the outside of the airport. The airport, known as the Kansai International Airport, is situated in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan in the center of Osaka Bay, off the Honshu Shore.

The notion of building an island, Kankūjima, specifically to house the airport was initially conceived as a way to alleviate congestion at Osaka International Airport. For every airport facility, there are two zones on the island: Terminal One and Terminal Two. The first airport terminal in the world, measuring an astounding 1.7 km, was built by Renzo Piano and is the site of both local and international airline arrivals and departures.

The airport is the third busiest in Japan, handling an astounding 20 million people annually, according to the YouTube channel Design Nerd. One million tons of freight are also transported by it.

And people on social media are amazed by the $20 billion island. A person commented: "Kansai Airport Japan Built in Ocean..see my dear .. what a wonderful site." Another person said, "Wow.. this is awesome.. airport floating in the middle of the ocean." Another stated, "Kansai AirPort is impressive... a man-made Island in the middle of the ocean." Another one said, "Kansai Airport Was Constructed in the Ocean! Fantastic Illustration of Civil Engineering"

The airport has generated controversy, nevertheless, despite its popularity as a travel hub and the support of social media users. The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) stated that the initial cost of building the airport was $14 billion, resulting in an astounding $20 billion construction expenditure. The cost has increased to $20 billion by 2008. This includes the reclamation of land, the addition of a second 4,000-meter runway in 2007, and the construction of terminal structures."

However, the Smithsonian Magazine claims that as of 2018, the airport has fallen a concerning 38 feet from when it initially opened in 1994. Advertisement The seawall was raised with an additional $150 million to safeguard the terminals, but by 2056, the island is predicted to sink an additional 13 feet. So, does the airport merit the expenditure? Yes, in the opinion of people working on the project. It has been successful in lessening the problem of Osaka International Airport congestion while also connecting Osaka to the rest of the globe. How long will it last is the question.