
Five Years of Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act (2021): Institutional Gains, Implementation Deviations and Priorities for the Next Reform Phase
by Amb Gabriel Tanimu Aduda Former Permanent Secretary MPR and Former OPEC Governor for Nigeria Abstract Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 was enacted to replace a fragmented legal order with an integrated governance, regulatory, fiscal and host-community framework. Nearly five years later, the Act has produced major institutional gains: specialised upstream and midstream/downstream regulators […]