Amaechi spoke in Washington DC, United States of America, during a town hall meeting with Rivers State natives residing in North America at the weekend. He met with them for over seven hours in North America on Saturday, and on Sunday held a breakfast meeting with leaders of the various Rivers State ethnic associations in America.

FEDERAL Government has moved to diversify its source of power generation in the country to shore up capacity and expand feed stock to the existing power plants in the country.

By  Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and member of the party’s board of trustees, Chief Chris Uba,  yesterday reported at the office of the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Philemon Leha,  in obedience to an earlier invitation extended to him  by the state police command. Though details of his discussion with the […]

MR. Abayomi Dawodu is the National Chairman of the coalition of Residence & Business Associations of Nigeria (CRBN). He has led the association to a number of high powered discussions with top functionaries of the Federal government and the National Assembly all in an effort to turn around the current power situation in the country.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has announced an astronomical growth of over 400 percent in local capacity utilisation in the oil and gas industry in less than five years of the introduction of the Nigerian Content Policy.

When early this month news filtered from Ghana, that Oando, a wholly Nigerian oil and gas company had been selected as strategic partner to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to develop a $1 billion gas infrastructure and assets for the Jubilee oilfield (Ghana’s biggest oil discovery), the report seem to have validated the strategic intent of Oando’s diversification programme.

African Oil and Energy Insurance Pool have admitted five Nigerian insurance companies and one reinsurer from Tunisia into the pool with a subscription of $200,000.

Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, weekend, remained evasive on his political ambition for 2011, saying when the time comes, the people of the state would decide.

Nigerian insurance companies have upped the ante of their participation in oil and energy insurance business in Africa with the country’s underwriters leading the top five oil accounts on the continent with a whopping N24.6billion.

Three opposition parties in Osun State have dissociated themselves from the suit filed by the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) in respect of the controversial police security report on the 2007 gubernatorial election in the state.