Diversification: Missing the boat on rubber – 2
I want to extend my greatest gratitude to Captain Roosa for caring about Nigeria more than our leaders apparently do. I don’t cry over rubber because it represents several opportunities lost in this country. In my short span of life, I have been closely associated with at least four crops – two food and two cash crops – which if grown to the limit of our collective abilities could make our squabble over crude oil revenue disappear.
D’Tigers have made a big statement – Aminu
Nigeria’s D’Tigers basketball forward player, A-Farouq Aminu, has said that his team’s opening win on Sunday at the ongoing London 2012 Olympics was an assertion of what the team can do.
The Petroleum Industry Bill
The Petroleum Industry Bill
13 die in Edo Auto crash
BENIN—NO fewer than 13 persons, Sunday, died in a road crash, which occurred at Ohosu, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State on the Benin-Ore-Shagamu-Lagos Expressway.
Oil firms underpay FG $2.33bn
Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has disclosed that from its audit report between 2006 and 2008, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, received $3.789 billion as dividends from Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, which it did not confirm that the payments were made to the Federation account.
2 robbery suspects killed in Delta
UGHELLI – TWO suspected armed robbers, were on Sunday, killed at Ugono Junction on East/West Road, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State.
