NCAA proposed N140 million for the two cars although National Assembly blocked the spending. At a combative House of Representatives hearing Thursday, lawmakers, and officials of the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, shredded claims advanced by aviations agencies and the minister to escape criminal prosecution with respect to the car procurement scandal rocking the aviation ministry. Minister […]
The Federal Government has said that it will soon begin the surveillance of Nigeria’s pipelines with aircraft manned by Nigerian pilots, trained under the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF programme. Speaking at the Upstream and Downstream Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference, in Abuja, Mr. Oluwole Oluleye, Executive Secretary, PTDF, who expressed government’s concern with […]
Stakeholders have argued that Nigeria’s economic development, which is anchored on the petroleum industry could have been comparable to the western world, but for issues relating to environmental degradation, corruption, crude theft, infrastructure deficiency, and insecurity. Assessing the performance of the industry since 1960, the stakeholders noted that these are further compounded by funding challenges, […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has said that the massive ongoing gas pipeline projects across the country will provide a veritable platform for individual homes and estates to be linked with gas pipelines to enhance domestic use. The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, disclosed this during a panel discussion on power at […]
The Nigerian Army said it has stepped up its crusade against illegal oil bunkering activities in the Niger Delta. The renewed vigour, Sweetcrude gathered, was informed by a directive by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, while in Port Harcourt, to commission some projects donated to the Port Harcourt Army Barracks by […]