CIIN seeks future generation professionals
Insurance industry has intensified its search for future generation professionals in the various tertiary institutions across the nation as the sector may just be at the mercy of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to help the sector actuate its dream of having insurance included in the curriculum of tertiary institutions across the nation.
Community development session excite passions at NOG
THE 2010 Nigeria oil and gas conference/exhibition which ended last week in Abuja threw up some key issues that would dominate debate on both the political and the oil and gas arena for some time to come.
FG loses over N174 billion in products losses, pipeline repairs
ABUJA – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has provided graphic details of how the activities of pipeline vandals have complicated the free flow of petroleum products and crude supply in its pipeline system leading to a colossal cost of over N174.57 billion in product losses and repairs of products pipelines within the last 10 years.
Nigerian content policy has changed the landscape significantly, Nwapa
MR. Ernest Nwapa is the General Manager in charge of the Nigerian Content Division at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Probe impeachment signatories in Edo House’
AMID the controversy triggered by the impeachment of Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Zakawanu Garuba and his deputy, Hon. Levi Aigbogun, the Senate President, Senator David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, among others, have been asked to investigate the 16- member signatories that carried out the action.
Boko Haram: FG talks tough, vows to criminalise torture, extra-judicial killings
The Federal Government has said that arrangements were in the pipeline to criminalise torture and extra-judicial executions in the country.
JTF probes alleged killing of two Ilaje youths
INVESTIGATIONS into the circumstances that led to the alleged killings of two Ilaje youths during last Monday protest at Costain community, Escravos, has commenced by the Joint Task Force, JTF.
Reps fume as Minister, NNPC shun hearing on alleged $75m contract scam
The House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (downstream) was livid as Dr. Rilwan Lukman, Minister of Petroleum; Odein Ajumogobia, Minister of State for Petroleum and Mohammed Barkindo, Group Managing Director (GMD) of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Tuesday shunned its invitation to an investigative hearing over alleged contract scam worth $75 million at the Kaduna Refinery.
You Can’t Shut down Gas Plants, Barkindo Warns Shell
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo has ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company to desist from threatening to shut down gas plants on the excuse of non-evacuation of condensate from its pipelines.
Yenagoa : Gov Sylva confronts water shortage
Though surrounded by water, Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State like its sister communities in the heart of the Niger Delta, can best be described as a contradiction and a confounding paradox. Or how do you explain a situation whereby one is surrounded by water and yet has none to drink?
HIV vaccine: Scientists use HIV against itself
Scientists in the United States of America are set to develop an HIV vaccine made of the virus itself.
