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Works Minister Umahi Reads Riot Act, Gives Termination Notice To Enugu-Port Harcourt Highway Contractor For Non-Performance

<p> The minister said he will, going forward, terminate all non-performing contracts nationwide.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.arise.tv/works-minister-umahi-reads-riot-act-gives-termination-notice-to-enugu-port-harcourt-highway-contractor-for-non-performance/">Works Minister Umahi Reads Riot Act, Gives Termination Notice To Enugu-Port Harcourt Highway Contractor For Non-Performance</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.arise.tv">Arise News</a>.</p>

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Death Toll Hits 64 In Papua New Guinea Tribal Violence

<p><img width="1000" height="600" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-1000x600.webp" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Death Toll Reaches 64 In Papua New Guinea Tribal Violence" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-1000x600.webp 1000w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-300x180.webp 300w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-1024x614.webp 1024w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-768x461.webp 768w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-590x354.webp 590w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945-400x240.webp 400w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/945.webp 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></p> <h2>Papua New Guinea's remote highlands witnessed a harrowing event as <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/police">police</a> revealed the recovery of sixty-four bloodied bodies along a road, indicating a chilling escalation in the persistent violence between local warring tribes, as announced on Monday.</h2> <p><strong>Naija News</strong> gathered that the victims were to be tribal fighters whom a rival group ambushed in the early hours of Sunday.</p> <p>The incident took place near the town of Wabag, situated approximately 600 kilometres (370 miles) northwest of the capital Port Moresby, in a rugged and lawless area that has long been the setting for tit-for-tat mass killings involving rival tribes such as Sikin, Ambulin, Kaekin, and others.</p> <p>Graphic police images from the scene depicted stripped and bloodied bodies strewn along the roadside and stacked on the back of a flatbed truck, with some men bearing hacked limbs and left naked by the road, while beer bottles or cans were placed on their chests.</p> <p>According to police statements on Monday, ongoing gunfights were observed in nearby valleys, while authorities continued to recover bodies from the bushland adjacent to the road.</p> <p>“<em>We believe there are still some bodies… out there in the bush,</em>” Assistant Commissioner of Police Samson Kua said.</p> <p>Acting police commander Patrick Peka of the province stated that many of the deceased were suspected mercenaries, individuals who travel the countryside offering assistance to tribes in settling scores with their adversaries.</p> <p>“The police and government cannot do much when leaders and educated elites supply arms and ammunitions and engage the services of gunmen from other parts of the province,” Peka said.</p> <p>Papua New Guinea's government has attempted various strategies, including suppression, mediation, gun amnesties, and others, to curb the violence, but with minimal success.</p> <p>Despite deploying approximately 100 troops to the region, the military's influence has been constrained, and the security forces continue to be outnumbered and outgunned.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/02/19/death-toll-hits-64-in-papua-new-guinea-tribal-violence/">Death Toll Hits 64 In Papua New Guinea Tribal Violence</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.naijanews.com">Naija News</a>.</p>

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Tinubu Govt To Meet NARTO Members Over Fresh Strike

<p><img width="640" height="417" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TANKERS.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="JUST IN: Impending Fuel Scarcity As Hoodlums Block Tanker Drivers' Access To Depot" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TANKERS.jpg 640w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TANKERS-300x195.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></p> <h2>The Bola Tinubu-led government is set to meet with the <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/narto/">Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners</a> (NARTO) leadership to avert the planned suspension of operations.</h2> <p>Recall that the association had, in a letter dated February 15, 2024, addressed to the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), <strong><a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/02/16/fuel-scarcity-looms-as-tanker-drivers-threaten-fresh-strike/">directed</a></strong> all its members to withdraw their petroleum trucks from product-loading activities from Monday, February 19, 2024.</p> <p>In the letter, NARTO said the high freight rates and cost of operations are responsible for their plan to park their vehicles and stop lifting fuel beginning today.</p> <p>NARTO’s President, <strong>Yusuf Othman</strong>, said his members and oil marketers had been meeting since Saturday based on the orders of the Federal Government.</p> <p>Othman disclosed that the downstream regulator and the Ministry of Petroleum would meet with NARTO members and other parties today in Abuja to sort out the issues.</p> <p>He stated that oil marketers and his executives met about six times in the last two days to avert a threat to halt the lifting of petroleum products in the country.</p> <p>Othman added that NARTO members are not going on strike but withdrawing their services because they are not employees but business people.</p> <p>He said: “<em>We are discussing with the marketers, and they have proposed some increase in the transportation arrangement, and right now, we are discussing with our executives with a view to consider the matter.</em></p> <p><em>“But you know this has nothing to do with the government because the government no longer has a hand in the payment of transportation for products. It is purely for marketers that we provide the services to</em>."</p> <p>Othman said the letter to the Petroleum Minister, Department of State Services (DSS) and other Federal Government agencies was to alert the government to intervene.</p> <p>He said: <em>“Yes, it was for them to intervene, not that they should pay, at least for them to see reasons why they need to talk to the other parties because the government naturally has to be an arbiter.</em></p> <p><em>“In a free market, the government cannot just fold its arms and say everybody should do whatever they like. And this is the time we are oppressed downstream because most of the marketers have increased their pump prices, but they have not increased our freight rates.</em></p> <p><em>“So since the time we issued the letters, we’ve met with the marketers about four to five times, and we are meeting later this (Sunday) evening. And I do hope we will be able to conclude before Monday, otherwise, we will withdraw our services.</em></p> <p><em>“It is not a strike, because we are not employees, we are business people, we will just withdraw our services. But I don’t want to believe that it will not be resolved before then because everybody is aware of their responsibilities."</em></p> <p>On whether NARTO was getting the desired response from marketers, Othman replied, “<em>We’ve met almost six times. Today (Sunday) we met three times, yesterday (Saturday) we met three times and we are going to meet again later this (Sunday) evening.</em></p> <p><em>“The government has directed them that they must negotiate with us, because they have seen reasons why we have to get some improvement in our freight rates, in view of the high operational cost. So there is hope.”</em></p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/02/19/tinubu-govt-to-meet-narto-members-over-fresh-strike/">Tinubu Govt To Meet NARTO Members Over Fresh Strike</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.naijanews.com">Naija News</a>.</p>

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