THE University Of the West Indies is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti .I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of is management, ineptitude, corruption.

With virtually weeks to passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly, the country’s oil and gas behemoth, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has instituted measures to commence transformation towards becoming a purely profit-oriented company as against the government oil and gas agency it had been since its establishment in .

Fears over job losses at the Chevron refinery in Pembrokeshire have been raised after the oil giant said it was to “exit from certain markets”.

Nigerian Content is defined as the quantum of composite value added or created in the Nigerian economy through the utilization of Nigerian human and material resources for the provision of goods and services to the petroleum industry within acceptable quality, health, and safety and environmental standards in order to stimulate the development of indigenous capabilities.”

The Indian Government has registered its intention to seek a major expansion of its economic ties with Nigeria through increased participation in all sectors of the oil and gas industry in the country.