Aside the defects in the new Petroleum Industry Act and the plans by the federal government to amend the law, […]
RTag: PIB
Implementation of Petroleum Industry Act to be completed within 12 months – Buhari
…appeals to host communities to carefully consider its contents By Anthony Isibor PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to host communities […]
How to make NNPC commercially viable – Animashaun
NAJIM Animashaun, principal partner, Nigerian Natural Resource Charter, NNRC, has advocated for reforms that will make the Nigerian National Petroleum […]
Nigeria Loses Investment in Oil Sector to Non-passage of PIB
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria urges legislators to pass …
Senate Beyond the Noise
IT IS just three weeks since the Eight Senate was inaugurated on the proclamation prepared by President Muhammadu Buhari. Since then, a lot has happened within the institution which under normal circumstances should have attracted positive attention from members of the public, including …
NEITI to FG, Divest from Joint Ventures
The Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, is advising the federal government to divest its stakes in the joint venture projects with international oil companies …
NNPC, NEITI to Ensure Transparency in Oil Industry
– THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, have agreed to collaborate more […]
Group Wants Sanusi to Apologise to Jonathan
Sequel to the release of PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report which cleared the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of allegations of not remitting funds to federation account, the Move-on Nigeria, a civil society group is asking Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano, who raised the alarm to apologise to …
PricewaterhouseCoopers Hands over Audit Report on NNPC
The auditor-general of the federation is studying the report of the forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which the PricewaterhouseCoopers submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan last week and will make the highlights public soon …
Oil Workers’ End Strike
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers are on an indefinite strike to protest negative welfare issues and delay in passing the Petroleum Industry Bill …
Nigeria loses $287 million Monthly in Oil Contracts
THE Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has said that $113 billion needed to be injected into the country to fix three critical sectors of the economy in order to put it in the right direction. Benjamin Dikki, director general, BPE said Nigeria required the amount in six years for the development of three critical …
NERC Advises on Compliance Officers
– THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has urged all distribution companies to get compliance officers who would ensure that […]
Solar Energy for Communities
– THE federal government has announced plans to expand the usage and application of solar technology to bring electricity to […]