The long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, when it finally comes, looks likely to be a botched job that gives favourable tax terms to foreign oil firms while doing little to satisfy calls for transparency and reform of a corrupt and wasteful sector. (View full text) View New Draft PIB
This study discusses the manifestation and consequences of human activities on the Niger Delta ecosystem. The Niger Delta is resource-rich and abundantly blessed with expanse of agricultural/aquatic resources and vast reserves of petroleum hydrocarbon. .view full text featured image courtesy of businesspundit.com
Newly drafted oil bill, which is now close to being finalised, mandates that oil firms must stop flaring gas by the end of this year, and that if they don’t they can be fined. (view full text) picture source:http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/25218/2012/05/21/gas_flaring_drops_14_says_nnpc.html View Draft of New PIB
For years now, Baruwa Community, in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State has been having a running battle with environmental pollution caused by oil spillage. Baruwa is a settlement within Lagos metropolis. It is a few kilometers away from Ikeja and is surrounded by other notable communities like Egbeda, Ayobo, Alimosho and Ipaja townships. […]
For the federal government of Nigeria to walk the talk on dealing with corruption and cutting excesses in government , Mr. president cannot afford to keep the Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke in her post. She should not preside over her own investigation in the oil ministry. Given the scope of the […]
Oil exploration in northern Nigeria is being retarded by nonchalance of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the multinational oil companies involved in the project, the New Nigerian Development Company (NNDC) (View full Text)
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned, President Goodluck Jonathan is perfecting plans to break up the congress by registering a splinter group in its to weaken opposition to government’s various “anti people” policies. NLC claimed that the government is using its former Secretary General John Odah, who was sacked in a controversial circumstance last year […]
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has faulted the Federal Government over the recent clamp down on illegal refineries in the country. (View full text) Picture source:http://nairabrains.com/2012/05/we-support-illegal-refineries-naccima/
There is, arguably no other way the current administration in Nigeria can prove to many anxious Nigerians, and members of the international community, that it really means business in tackling the endemic corruption seriously retarding the progress of the country than implementing the recommendations in the Fuel Subsidy Report. (view full text) View Fuel Subsidy […]
Royal Dutch Shell said it found two fresh onshore oil pipeline leaks in Nigeria’s Delta region, three days after the company declared force majeure on exports of the high grade Bonny Light crude due to outages caused by oil theft. “Two new leaks were reported on May 7 on the trans-Niger pipeline at Akpajo and […]