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“We all must do more to eliminate the use of children for forced labour. As you are aware, some states are yet to domesticate it, and we made some commitment to them, hoping that the states that are left will work hard to see that before the next Children’s Day, they will see that this Act is domesticated in their states.”

On the slump in oil production, the NNPC said, “In February 2017, crude oil production in Nigeria decreased to 1.82 million bpd, which represents 1.05 per cent decrease relative to January 2017 production and also lagged behind February 2016 performance by 10.97 per cent.”

Omokore and his companies are standing trial along with Membere, Victor Briggs, former managing director of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC; and David Mbanefo, manager, Planning and Commercial of the NNPC. They were re-arraigned on November 21, 2016 on a nine-count amended charge,of criminal diversion of about $1.6 billion alleged to be proceeds of petroleum products belonging to the federal government.