Oilserv bags 2018 industry achievement award
Oilserv Limited bagged the 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award (Corporate) at the 2018 Annual Oil Industry Achievement Dinner and Awards of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors.
Aggrieved APGA aspirants demand sack of national chairman, refunds
Awka—ABOUT 500 aggrieved aspirants under the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra State yesterday demanded refund of the money they paid for nomination and expression of interest forms over alleged failure of the party to conduct credible primaries.
Your incompetence responsible for your failures, Jonathan tells Buhari
The Presidency has blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan for President Muhammadu Buhari’s five month delay in forming a federal cabinet.
Igbo Day Celebration: Ohanaeze, PANDEF, Afenifere meet in Owerri
OWERRI—The different socio-cultural organisations representing the various zones in Nigeria, yesterday arrived in Owerri for the Igbo Day Celebration.
EGCDF commissions N382.6m projects
Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF, has commissioned infrastructure projects worth N382.6 million with promise to handover cottage hospitals at Polobubor and Oporoza to Delta State government in no distant time.
Nigeria losses investments worth billions of dollars
There are indications that the Federal Government’s unwillingness to step up its game and free up the Benin embayment to capable indigenous oil and gas firms, may have incurred a huge loss of investment running into billions of dollars.
SNEPCo’s Bonga hits 800 million barrels in 13 years
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) yesterday, said its deep-water exploration, the Bonga vessel in the past 13 years has produced over 800 million barrels of crude oil.
UTM Dredging to enhance indigenous oil, gas, other operations
UTM Dredging Limited, a major marine company, has expressed commitment towards the development of indigenous oil, gas and other operations in Nigeria.
$60m Ikwe-Onna Refinery to start operation in 2020
THERE are indications that Nigeria’s refining capacity would be boosted between 2019 and 2020, as stakeholders have started work on the $600 million Ikwe-Onna Modular Refinery in Akwa Ibom State.
Pizza Hut expands in Africa, opens 3 outlets in Lagos
Pizza Hut, a division of Yum! Brands has announced the opening of its first restaurant in Nigeria with two more expected by the end of the year.
A plea for economic planning
DURING the economic recession of the 1980s the doyen of Nigerian economics, Pius Nwabufo Okigbo, delivered a lecture at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, with the title, “Sorcerers, Astrologers and Nigerian Economic Recovery.” Yours sincerely was among the audience during that steamy 1986 summer afternoon in Kuru. It was a brilliant performance. The late economist gave that dramatic title to his erudite lecture to drive home the point about how bereft we are in terms of serious critical thinking about the economy.
