Federal Government planned to spend N6.201bn on an awareness campaign for the Petroleum Industry Bill. A budget performance breakdown of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources for 2012 made available to the National Assembly Committees on Gas Resources and Petroleum (Downstream) on Thursday showed that the campaign would take place across the country. Read more
Members of the National Assembly Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), have rubbished the Subsidy Reinvestment Empowerment Programme of the Federal Government, calling for its scrapping because it “lacks a clear sense of purpose.” This is even as the Chairman of the SURE-P Committee, Dr. Christopher Kolade, said on Wednesday that a total of N135bn had been […]
WORKERS in the petroleum and gas industry have faulted what they called excessive powers accorded the President and Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) currently before the National Assembly. In a communiqué issued by the unions under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and National […]
The epic scale of graft within the Nigerian bureaucracy is well-documented. Out of 183 countries on Transparency International’s most recent index of perceived levels of public-sector corruption, Nigeria ranks as the 143rd worst. Human Rights Watch was even more damning in a report last year, saying that graft “has turned public service for many into […]
Fourth part of a documentary on the effects of bribery and corruption on Nigerian society produced by Flint Productions for Integrity Nigeria and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
Third part of a documentary on the effects of bribery and corruption on Nigerian society produced by Flint Productions for Integrity Nigeria and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
Second part of a documentary on the effects of bribery and corruption on Nigerian society produced by Flint Productions for Integrity Nigeria and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
First part of a documentary on the effects of bribery and corruption on Nigerian society produced by Flint Productions for Integrity Nigeria and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
The long-awaited turnaround maintenance for the country’s ailing refineries will start in the first quarter of next year, with the Port Harcourt plant slated to be attended to first. Our correspondent gathered that final touches were being put on the bid process for the TAM, as the technical and commercial single bids as well as the […]
Egunjedotinfo, a website dedicated to crowd-sourcing trends in bribery and corruption in Nigeria, has been launched. The website was launched in Abuja on Tuesday by the Integrity Organization Nigeria, an anti corruption, research and advocacy organization founded in 1995. The project aims to track, name and shame corrupt individuals and organizations in Nigeria. The event was preceded by […]