The Nembe community in Bayelsa State and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd., (SPDC) have jointly commissioned 12 different development projects executed by the community under the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) initiative. The projects cost N215 million. SPDC Joint Venture provided the funds, while the community implemented the projects through the Community Development […]

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has commended Super Eagle’s Chief Coach, Amodu Shaibu, for leading the senior national team to clinch the 2010 world cup ticket.

By Oscarline ONWUEMENYI ABUJA – In line with its objective of increasing exploration and production of hydrocarbon resources with a view to growing the nations oil reserves to 40million barrels of crude, the Federal government on Tuesday renewed the leases of OLS 67, 68 and 70 shallow waters with Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, under the […]

Former Anambra State governor Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju needs no introduction. He was the governor who had to fight to keep his seat as chief executive of the state from the first day he came to power.

…Says local engineers not adequately challenged By Oscarline ONWUEMENYI ABUJA – The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engr. Kashim Abdul Ali, has said local engineers hold the magic wand to resolving the country’s perennial power challenges, if given more roles to play by the government. Ali who was speaking on Monday at a […]

The plan to demolish water-fronts in Port Harcourt is not new. It first gained currency under the tenure of deposed governor Celestine Omehia. The government gave security reasons as one of the major factors behind the plan. The issue seemingly overheated the state. While this was on, the Supreme Court sacked the government and installed […]

By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT – CONTRARY to thinking in many quarters that the scarcity of petroleum products in Port Harcourt is as a result of hoarding by filling stations, findings have revealed short fall in supply of the product to filling stations by the Pipeline Product Marketing Company (PPMC) is largely responsible. During a […]

By John Owubokiri In November 2006 the Editor (now Editor-In-Chief) of the Vanguard, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye approved the publication of the controversial Niger Delta debate on the energy pages of the Vanguard. It was not a particularly popular decision for the politics of the day was against any accommodation of the Niger Delta Question as […]

By Godwin Oritse THE uncoordinated warehousing of the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) equipment may stall the December dead line of 6,000 mega watts target of power supply. The NIPP has suffered a lot of ill fate in recent times as some of the equipment were actually auctioned by the men and officers of the […]

The Vice President, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck has described Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Ltd, PAN, as a national treasure and urged Nigerians and Nigerian based companies to patronise the brand.

Nigeria has been elected a member of the Executive Council of the African Federation of Utility Regulators (AFUR) at the just concluded 6th conference of the body that held in Abidjan Cote D’Ivore. Nigeria representative on the continental body, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had in a position paper at the forum, urged other […]

More than 400 pipelines have been destroyed in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta region in the last two years, the Lagos-based Vanguard newspaper reported on Monday. Citing Joseph Dorgu, chairman of the Pipeline Professionals’ Association of Nigeria (PLAN), the report said the vandalism was caused by militants in the region. He said one way the […]

By Jimitota ONOYUME Port Harcourt – FOR the Niger Delta Ministry to be more effective  in the region federal government has been urged to relocate it from Abuja to any state in the region. Making the appeal, Secretary, Western Zone, Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Preye Okaba said the Ministry would be proactive in terms […]

The Managing Director of Omatek Ventures Plc, Mrs. Florence Seriki, has called on the federal government to take advantage of the enormous opportunities presented by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) segment of the economy.

AS controversy continues to trail government planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the nation’s Petroleum industry, Labour Writers Association of Nigeria (LAWAN), has called for a time frame to end importation of petroleum products into the countries. LAWAN, an umbrella body for Labour Editors and correspondents reporting labour and industrial issues in the country, […]