…Takes over 133 filling stations from marketers
By Oscarline Onwuemenyi
ABUJAÂ In a bid to put to rest the perennial artificial fuel scarcity in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said, Thursday, it has concluded arrangements with some Independent Marketers to take over their filling stations in order to sustain steady fuel supply.
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By Oscarline ONWUEMENYI
With barely a month to the end of the deadline by the Federal government for the actualization of 6,000 megawatts of electricity across the country, it is not surprising that the major actors on the scene are beginning to look askance, and seek plausible excuses and explanations for why the arrow [...]
What we have seen so far is that if gas supply improves, and we expect more to be available before the end of the year with the Niger Delta issue then, most of the gas supply pipeline was badly affected and one of the major plants, that is the one operated by Chevron was out for a long time but they are fixing that now and that alone accounts for about 2000 mmscf per day or 800 MW of electricity generation per day.
DR. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, is the executive governor of Delta state, a major oil and gas producing state noted for several positives but like its neighbouring states often caught in the eye of the storm militancy, pipeline vandalism and piracy.
In this interview with Hector Igbikiowubo, Oscarline Onwuemenyi and Abayomi Adeshida of Sweet crude, [...]
….Sanusi says oil industry bill critical to banking reform
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo has solicited the cooperation of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the on going reform of the oil and gas sector for it to impact positively on the Nigerian economy.
The [...]
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke has announced that Nigeria would be the toast of the jewellery world this month in Hollywood, California as mega-movie stars, world jewellery buying and selling top guns throng  the launch its Gemstones .
The Minister said that this was made possible after several meeting with [...]
A DEFEANING explosion suspected to be from a detonated dynamite rocked Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, in the early hours of yesterday causing panic among residents of Kpansia, Yenizue-Gene and Biogbolo metropolis.
OIL producing communities in Edo State have condemned what they described as deliberate exclusion of their people from the post-amnesty committee set up by the federal government.
The policeman, Mr. Raymond Egbongbonwuyi, who fired tear gas in a ward at the Oni Memorial Children’s Hospital, Ibadan last week said yesterday that he did not mean to harm any of the children on the fateful day.
Ahead African Cup of Nations in Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation is considering a friendly with the 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa.
A suspected member of a robbery gang that specialised in car snatching was yesterday shot dead during a gun battle with policemen attached to Ojodu division, Lagos.
THE Police in Lagos Monday confirmed the arrest of three suspected assassins who were allegedly planning to eliminate some branch chairmen of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state.
Following protracted battle against high blood pressure and acute ulcer, Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Information and Strategy, Mr. Segun Ayobolu, yesterday formally took his exit from the cabinet of the sate government.
The divorce suit instituted by Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Festus Keyamo, against his wife took another dimension yesterday with the wife, Mrs Isioma Irene Keyamo, filing her response to her husband’s petition, demanding N20 million as alimony before the court.
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