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Oil and gas expert, Tonye Cole, has expressed optimism that fuel prices would likely reduce with the repair of national refineries in Nigeria Cole, however, explained that fuel may not drop to the N700/litre mark due to some issues that the country has to deal with Legit.ng reports that currently, the price of fuel in Nigeria is above N1,000, much to the displeasure of many citizens PAY ATTENTION: Got a Minute? Complete Our Quick Survey About Legit.ng Today! Legit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has a decade of business journalism experience with in-depth knowledge of the Nigerian economy , stocks, and general market trends. Port Harcourt, Rivers state - Tonye Cole has said "there has to be a concise and dedicated policy of ensuring that there is the manufacturing of critical fuel components so that Nigeria does not need to import those pieces of machinery". Cole, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state in the 2023 general elections, spoke on Channels Television 's 'Politics Today' programme on Tuesday evening, November 26. The programme was monitored by Legit.ng . Read also NNPC reacts as trucks begin loading petrol after PH refinery begins production Cole reacts to Port Harcourt refinery revival The erstwhile Rivers gubernatorial candidate spoke against the backdrop of the trending update that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited fulfilled its pledge of re-streaming the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC), signalling the commencement of crude oil processing from the plant and delivery of petroleum products into the market. PAY ATTENTION: Follow us on Instagram - get the most important news directly in your favourite app! Ask about the possibility of Nigerians buying fuel for N700 per litre considering the NNPCL 's efforts, the one-time group executive director of energy conglomerate Sahara Group, explained: "There are certain things that you have to deal with. First of all, there are many components that you are still bringing in. All the things that were refurbished in the refinery were refurbished by machining brought into the country. So we still have a huge foreign exchange component that we have to deal with." Cole added: "There has to be machining of tools and replacement parts here in Nigeria for refineries that are here, for you to begin to see all of those gains. As long as we are still importing turbines, importing bolts, knots, screws, and all of that, we have an issue." Read also After Port Harcourt refinery, Shehu Sani mentions 1 fuel processing facility Nigerians look forward to Watch the video below: Sani reacts Port Harcourt refinery begins operation Earlier, Legit.ng reported that former Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani, shared his reaction after the Port Harcourt refinery commenced crude oil processing. Shehu Sani in a post shared on his X page on Tuesday, November 26, hailed the NNPCL led by Mele Kyari. He stated that the refinery's operations should lead to a reduction in petroleum prices and improve the lives of Nigerians. PAY ATTENTION : Legit.ng Needs Your Opinion! That's your chance to change your favourite news media. Fill in a short questionnaire Source: Legit.ng
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Leanne Belch has a very simple wish for the festive season this year. "I’m just hoping that we can get through Christmas without Amber being readmitted to hospital", she says, referring to her five-year-old daughter. Amber has had to undergo 29 surgeries since birth due to suffering from both spina bifida and hydrocephalus - which builds up fluid in her brain. Despite spending last Christmas undergoing skull expansion surgery - where doctors created more room in her head to try and ease the painful headaches she suffered from - Amber has this year started primary school as scheduled. For Leanne and her partner Paul, life has been a "rollercoaster" since Amber was diagnosed with spina bifida while still in the womb. "I was told 80% of parents who got this diagnosis then terminated the pregnancy because the outcome wasn’t very good at all," she recalls. "Even though I was only 22 weeks I could feel her moving about inside me and I thought I cannot go through with the termination – it was like she was telling me not to give up on her yet, she still had a chance." Leanne, who has two other children, Lalia and Emma, decided to go ahead with the birth. But Amber arrived a month ahead of schedule via an emergency caesarean delivery. Immediately, she was whisked off to intensive care. "Her spinal cords were in a bubble hanging outside her back and they had to do her first surgery within 48 hours" says Leanne, who lives in East Kilbride. "They put her spinal cords back in her back and had to close her back up again. She was so fragile. They had actually lost her heartbeat just before the c-section and had been touch and go at the delivery." After seven days, Amber was undergoing a second surgery - this time to place a shunt in her head to try and drain away the fluid that had been building up. The shunts have regularly failed since Amber was born, meaning she has endured repeated surgeries try and fit her with one that worked. For Leanne, 39, what should have been a joyful celebration instead became a whirlwind of emotions. "I completely broke down in hospital. I was so scared and couldn’t cope – I have another two girls and I had so much mum guilt about leaving them while I was in hospital." Leanne told BBC Scotland News that she felt she was left to get on with things by herself, which took a considerable toll on her. Yet she "turned the corner" when she discovered the Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland support group, which led her to meet parents of other children with spina bifida and to have access to support workers, who helped her adjust. "The first thing someone there said to me was ‘congratulations on the birth of your daughter’. She was the first person who had said that to me since Amber was born. "It just made me really emotional hearing that." The surgeries have continued to mount up for Amber, although initial concern that she could have brain damage proved unfounded. However Amber has developed into a girl described by her mum as "a social butterfly", one who is always curious and wanting to know every detail about people she meets. She is also close to big sister Lalia, who's "like her second mum". "Amber is absolutely hilarious," laughs Leanne. "She’s so cheeky and sassy. You never know what she’ll come out with next." Last December Amber and her family experienced one of their toughest periods, when her hydrocephalus caused her to suffer painful headaches and vomiting. Doctors were concerned that the fluid in her brain was reaching such dangerous levels that Amber would start to lose her sight. That led to the five-year-old undergoing skull expansion surgery, which widened her skull by 2cm all around her head. The procedure was "traumatic" for both Amber and her mum, as it saw two metal rods placed in her head and then rotated for 10 days. "During the surgery for the skill expansion, they had to shave her head," recalls Leanne. "I just burst out crying, as I knew what it would mean. Amber had long hair and was going through enough without having to wake up being bald. "Whenever she caught her reflection afterwards she would start crying. That was really hard, I found that really tough – she couldn’t look in a mirror for months." Yet the past year has brought positives as well. Leanne and Paul discussed holding Amber back a year from starting school as she recovered from the surgery, but she improved quickly after returning home in January this year. Leanne tried to keep her daughter's spirits up, while Amber took inspiration from a Barbie doll given to her by a family friend - the toy was in a wheelchair while Leaane's friend had removed the hair, letting Amber "see herself" in the toy. Such positive backing meant that in August Amber was able to start attending Long Calderwood Primary school. She continues to attend meet-ups organised by Spina Bifida Scotland, where Leanne says she is "beaming with happiness." The charity's support is part of the reason why Leanne has taken on fund-raising for the charity, who are launching a Christmas appeal this week. Leanne has her own Christmas plans too, and hopes this year is memorable for the right reasons. "We’ve booked a trip to Aviemore on Christmas Eve, because last year we were all split up from each other, she says. "I just want to make this year really special, because I feel you never know what’s in the future."Leverkusen romp to 5-0 win over Salzburg in Champions League
No. 19 Illinois 75, Md.-Eastern Shore 55By BRIAN MAHONEY, Associated Press Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a Christmas Day basketball game at Walt Disney World, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Wemby. An animated game, anyway. The real game takes place at Madison Square Garden, where Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs face the New York Knicks in a game televised on ABC and ESPN and streamed on Disney+ and ESPN+. The special alt-cast, the first animated presentation of an NBA game, will be shown on ESPN2 and also stream on Disney+ and ESPN+. Madison Square Garden is a staple of the NBA’s Christmas schedule. Now it merges with a bigger home of the holidays, because the “Dunk the Halls” game will be staged at Disney, on a court set up right smack in the middle of where countless families have posed for vacation photos. Why that location? Because it was Mickey Mouse’s Christmas wish . “Basketball courts often have the ability to make a normal environment look special, but in Disney it can only turn out incredible,” Wembanyama said in an ESPN video promoting his Christmas debut. The story — this is Disney, after all — begins with Mickey penning a letter to Santa Claus, asking if he and his pals can host a basketball game. They’ll not only get to watch one with NBA players, but some of them will even get to play. Goofy and Donald Duck will sub in for a couple Knicks players, while Mickey and Minnie Mouse will come on to play for the Spurs. “It looks to me like Goofy and Jalen Brunson have a really good pick-and-roll at the elite level,” said Phil Orlins, an ESPN vice president of production. Walt Disney World hosted real NBA games in 2020, when the league set up there to complete its season that had been suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those games were played at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. The setting for the Christmas game will be Main Street USA, at the entrance of the Magic Kingdom. Viewers will recognize Cinderella’s castle behind one baseline and the train station at the other end, and perhaps some shops they have visited in between. Previous alternate animated broadcasts included an NFL game taking place in Andy’s room from “Toy Story ;” the “NHL Big City Greens Classic” during a game between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers; and earlier this month, another NFL matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys also taking place at Springfield’s Atoms Stadium as part of “ The Simpsons Funday Football. ” Unlike basketball, the players are helmeted in those sports. So, this telecast required an extra level of detail and cooperation with players and teams to create accurate appearances of their faces and hairstyles. “So, this is a level of detail that we’ve never gone, that we’ve never done on any other broadcast,” said David Sparrgrove, the senior director of creative animation for ESPN. Wembanyama, the 7-foot-3 phenom from France who was last season’s NBA Rookie of the Year, looks huge even among most NBA players. The creators of the alternate telecast had to design how he’d look not only among his teammates and rivals, but among mice, ducks and chipmunks. “Like, Victor Wembanyama, seeing him in person is insane. It’s like seeing an alien descend on a basketball court, and I think we kind of captured that in his animated character,” said Drew Carter, who will again handle play-by-play duties, as he had in the previous animated telecasts, and will get an assist from sideline reporter Daisy Duck. Wembanyama’s presence is one reason the Spurs-Knicks matchup, the leadoff to the NBA’s five-game Christmas slate, was the obvious choice to do the animated telecast. The noon EST start means it will begin in the early evening in France and should draw well there. Also, it comes after ABC televises the “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” for the previous two hours, providing more time to hype the broadcast. Recognizing that some viewers who then switch over to the animated game may be Disney experts but NBA novices, there will be 10 educational explainers to help with basketball lingo and rules. Beyond Sports’ visualization technology and Sony’s Hawk-Eye tracking allow the animated players to make the same movements and plays made moments earlier by the real ones at MSG. Carter and analyst Monica McNutt will be animated in the style of the telecast, donning VR headsets to experience the game from Main Street, USA. Other animated faces recognizable to some viewers include NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who will judge a halftime dunk contest among Mickey and his friends, and Santa himself, who will operate ESPN’s “SkyCam” during the game. The players are curious how the production — and themselves — will look. “It’s going to be so crazy to see the game animated,” Spurs veteran Chris Paul said. “I think what’s dope about it is it will give kids another opportunity to watch a game and to see us, basically, as characters.” AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba
The problem wasn’t money for DemocratsIn the final days before Romania’s parliamentary elections this weekend, the governing parties’ leaders both quit, pollsters gave up on projecting the results and the nation’s top court cast serious doubt on the integrity of the voting process. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Sunday’s parliamentary contest pits the pro-European establishment against far-right insurgents and will help to determine whether a critical NATO member and Ukrainian ally lurches closer to Moscow. It takes place in an atmosphere of scarcely believable chaos and confusion. Romania is in the middle of three consecutive weekend ballots for both a new parliament and a new president. Events spun off the rails in the first round of the presidential election on Nov. 24, when a Russia sympathizer with barely any public profile emerged as the shock winner. Calin Georgescu reported zero spending on a campaign that was mainly driven by social media videos on TikTok recorded from his living room. His victory sparked fears that Romania’s democratic process had been hacked by the Kremlin. In the country’s biggest political crisis since the communist regime collapsed over three decades ago, the constitutional court has ordered a recount of the presidential ballots, but it won’t have the fresh results until Sunday night and there is mounting speculation that it may order a rerun. As voters prepare to return to the polls on Sunday, there are major questions hanging over the process that they simply do not have answers to. The prospect of a far-right surge has sent hundreds to take the streets in freezing temperatures. In Bucharest, demonstrators chanted “We want freedom, not fascism.” For all the concerns about Russian interference, there’s also deep frustration, especially outside the major cities, with the mainstream candidates who were ejected in the first presidential ballot. Romania’s two most established parties, the Social Democrats and the Liberals, have governed in coalition for the past three years and the country has suffered rising inequality and rampant inflation. The vote puts 19 million Romanians at the heart of the struggle between the democratic institutions of the European Union and Russia’s expansionary ambitions. To the north, Romania borders Ukraine, where the Russian army has been fighting for almost three years to restore what President Vladimir Putin says is his country’s historic territorial rights. To the east is Moldova, where a pro-Western president survived another election earlier this month amid widespread reports of Kremlin interference. Putin’s ally Viktor Orban governs Hungary to the west. Romania, too, an EU member, could soon have a pro-Russian president and a far-right government, if the next two weeks of voting break in their favor. Many Romanians only began to learn after the vote about 62-year-old Georgescu, the agricultural engineer who languished in the single digits in polls just weeks before the election. A one-time ally of ultranationalist Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, Georgescu has denounced military support for Ukraine, called for a quick end to the war and cast doubt on the benefits of the country’s NATO membership. “I do not want to leave NATO, I do not want to leave the European Union,” he said on Tuesday, pushing back against his characterization by the local media. “I am a Romanian — I have no connection with Russia, I’m not a legionnaire, I’m not an antisemite.” Some of the comments collide with previous statements, in which he laid blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with NATO — and raised the prospect of leaving the military alliance if it didn’t guarantee peace. In 2020, Georgescu praised Putin as one of the worlds few true leaders. The alarm deepened after Georgescu said he had no campaign funding — and that supporter financing had been donated. The claim raised hackles from critics who pointed out that the candidate’s high-resolution videos, including some with sweeping landscape shots — featuring him on horseback, performing judo moves, dipping into a mountain lake — could only have been produced by professionals. An investigation by local news website G4media suggested the effort was artificially amplified by foreign interference. Georgescu’s profile was heavily promoted by a volunteers who were prompted to spread posts in exchange for “undisclosed rewards,” the website reported. A similar scheme took place during the vote in Moldova. Romania’s Supreme Defense Council, which includes top government and intelligence officials, issued a statement Thursday saying that one candidate — it didn’t name Georgescu — benefited from “massive exposure and preferential treatment.” The panel cited Russian influence operations that aimed to shift public opinion in Romania — and accused TikTok of failing to label the candidate’s videos as election material as required by Romanian law. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who has frequently misled the media over previous disinformation campaigns, said Friday that allegations of Russian interference in Romanian elections are unfounded and unsupported, according to the Interfax news agency. TikTok said it was “categorically false” to claim that it treated Georgescu’s account differently from other candidates. Adding to the sense of a country spinning out of control, Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu resigned his party’s leadership while his coalition partners, the Liberals, ousted their leader. After pollsters completely missed Georgescu’s victory last week, they’ve opted not to release any further surveys, so voters, candidates and officials are all essentially flying blind ahead of Sunday’s vote. Before the voluntary polling blackout, the ultranationalists tied to another candidate George Simion, had been making steady gains and were running second place behind the Social Democrats. Now though, no one is really sure where they stand. “The situation is very fluid,” said Remus Stefureac, the director of research firm INSCOP. He predicted that Romania’s pro-European would still get between 50% and 60%, enabling them to form a government, but without much conviction. “In a background of increased social tensions, a sovereign movement can get a temporary boost,” he said. ——— (With assistance from Slav Okov and Demetrios Pogkas.) ©2024 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.