Tribune / Nigeria: Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday, paid an unscheduled visit to the site of the Maritime University of Nigeria at Okerenkoko, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The visit came a few hours after members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) claimed to have bombed another pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Akwa Ibom State.
A prominent Gbaramatu leader, Chief Daniel Ekpebide, was said to have led the minister to the temporary site of the institution at Kurutie, as well as the ongoing permanent site at Okerenkoko.
It was gathered that the minister was considering a bill to the National Assembly for the conversion of the school to the Nigerian National Petroleum Academy.
The bill, the source said, might come in form of an executive bill to be presented by President Muhammadu Buhari.
It will be recalled that the reinstatement of the university was one of the demands by militants and several other stakeholders from the region in recent times.
