Bomb scare rocks NNPC Headquarters

                                          NNPC's corporate Headquarters, Abuja, Nigeria.

. Corporation commences security drill in Abuja, SBUs, dispels bomb scare rumour

By Adeola Yusuf, Lagos

A bomb scare rocked the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday in Abuja, Nigeria, causing workers and visitors to the ediface to scamper for safety.

The NNPC immediately conducted a security drill at the Corporate Headquarters in Abuja and all its Strategic Business Units across the Country after the rumoured bomb scare at the corporation.

The Group General manger, Group Public Affairs division of the NNPC, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma who confirmed the security drill “to ward off any possible security breach,” however dispelled the rumour that there was a bomb scare at the NNPC Towers.

He said: “The top management of the Corporation directed the security department to carry out a security drill which is aimed at heightening security consciousness among the staff and all visitors to NNPC installations.”

The corporation, cash cow of the Nigerian economy, has biggest stake in the upstream, middle stream and downstream sectors of the multi-billion dollars Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.

NNPC, the statement signed by Ajuonuma read: “conducted a security drill at the Corporate Headquarters and all its Strategic Business Units across the Country to ward off any possible security breach.”

Claiming that the security drill is a routine at the corporation offices, the spokesperson said, that it was done on Tuesday, “in consonance with the health and safety core values of the Oil and Gas Industry worldwide.”

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, he said, “as usual conducted a security drill at the Corporate Headquarters and all its Strategic Business Units across the Country to ward off any possible security breach.”

He added:  “There is no cause for alarm. The drill is a regular exercise that the Corporation carries out from time to time to assure our staff and all our visitors that we are on top of our security situation and to heighten our security alertness. The NNPC Towers is well secured and there is no threat of bomb scare anywhere.”

The NNPC spokesman also dispelled the rumour that there was a bomb scare at the NNPC Towers, Abuja and described it as the figment of the imagination of those who don’t mean well for the nation.

He assured Nigerians of the Corporation’s readiness to continue to sustain steady supply of petroleum products across the country, revealing that the NNPC would continue to touch the lives of Nigerians in many positive ways.