THE total annual demand for clean products in Africa has been put at about 75 million metric tonnes with Nigeria accounting for almost a third, even as significant infrastructure requirements challenge the continent’s downstream operations, including refining, local shipping, storage, pipelines and haulage.

ATAMUNO Ajubo Atamunolowuari, the managing director and founder of Midis Energy Services Limited, a leading service provider in the upstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry has been listed in the 2009 edition of the International Who’s Who Historical Society of professionals.

UMBRELLA body for senior staff in the nation’s petroleum sector, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has the federal government full deregulation of the down stream sector of the petroleum industry, without putting in place necessary facilities to make it, warning that anything short of putting the facilities in place would spell doom for the nation.

NIGERIA’S Senate is working on legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund aimed at softening any impact falling oil prices may have on the Opec member’s economy, Finance Minister Mansur Muhtar said.

OANDO has announced a N3.8bn profit (near US $24 million) for the six_month period ending June 30, 2009, representing a 4% increase over the same period in 2008. Against the background of the global economic downturn, the profit underlines Oando’s resilience, and vindicates its diversification and growth strategy.

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA – A group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law has petitioned President Umaru Yar’Adua over what it described as alleged decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to keep the people of the state in the dark over its preparations for the 2010 governorship election in […]

BENIN – Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said anybody, including governors and legislators, who in any way champions a cause against Western education is a Boko Haram. A statement by the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr. John Mayaki, said: “Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s policies and programmes on education seem to have been […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI – FEW days after his political rival, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume stormed Eboyi state with his political association, where his son took a wife from Ohaozara, Governor Ikedi Ohakim has announced October 9, 2009 date for the lunch of the Ebonyi state chapter of his ‘New Face of Imo’ in Abakaliki. Chairman […]

By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) has urged the Federal Government to confer the highest national honour to late Lagos lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, posthumously. General Secretary of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, who made this known said that although Gani had rejected the […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin – About 400 Muslims from Kwara State are to perform this year’s Umrah (lesser Hajj) which kicked off yesterday  and ends Wednesday. The Executive Secretary, Kwara Pilgrims Board, Imam Abdulkadir Shehu, who said this, weekend, at the inspection of the airplane billed for the exercise, noted that the exercise was contracted […]