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.

Forgiveness and its variants like pardon, amnesty etc are employed in the religious and political arena. They often signify a willingness to forget and never recall a wrong. In religious circles, this attribute is divine in its absolute sense since its stems from a supernatural being to lesser beings or humans.

The Nigeria’s petroleum industry bill has generated a lot of concern from all stakeholders in the industry; from the policy makers, operators, and human right activist to host communities. The Bill according to Nigeria’s senate president has generated more criticism than any other Bill in the senate. It is apparent that Nigerians are concerned with how the bill will ultimately affect the lives of the ordinary man on the streets.

MR. Austin Avuru is the Managing Director of Platform Petroleum, former President of the National Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) and well respected oil and gas industry analyst and commentator.

Nigeria’s plan to give Niger Delta residents a slice of its national energy company could be a major deterrent to militancy in the oil-producing region, the governor of Rivers state said.

GOVERNOR Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State, has canvassed adoption of electronic voting in the 2011 general elections. He said the manual voting system used in the last election encouraged corruption and other forms of electoral malpractices.