THE Olorunsogo power plant in Ogun State, that was handed over to Chinese by the Federal Government on Tuesday (a public holiday), has been shut down by aggrieved workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, who yesterday locked out the Chinese from the plant.

The Federal Government has approved extension, by three weeks, of the deadline for the submission of Expressions of Interest, EOIs, for the successor companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN to Friday, March 4.

The implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGIC) Act is geared towards establishing facilities in Nigeria and ensuring that they are patronized so as to bring Nigerian jobs back home.

SAN RAMON, Calif.,– Chevron Corporation yesterday announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding, MoU, between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI) Foundation, established by Chevron to help address socio economic challenges in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Port Harcourt – THE Niger Delta Development Commission has engaged no fewer than 65 youths of the region in the flag off of the NDDC Petroleum Engineering/ Drilling Graduate Training Programme for indigenes of the Niger Delta. There were over 5,000 applicants for the training programme.

Yenagoa – Indigenes of riverine settlements of Peremabiri and Ezetu in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly over an alleged plot by some persons to deny their communities from benefitting from the N2.5bn Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects in the state.

Flow-Cal has announced that the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) has selected FLOWCAL Enterprise to manage and streamline their measurement operations.

Yenagoa – The Joint Task Force has described as untrue claim by some politicians including a member of the Dutch parliament that its personnel were involved in crude oil theft in the Niger Delta.

Yenagoa – A transparency advocacy group, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has lauded President Goodluck Jonathan for his decision to halt the renewal of leases for International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria.

A combined team of pipeline engineers and safety/environment experts from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and its subsidiary, Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, have successfully drained over 450,000 litres of premium motor spirit from an oil leak site at Isheri Olofin along the Iyana Iba-Igando expressway in Lagos.

THE Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Austen Oniwon has reiterated that the ongoing Oil and Gas Industry reforms will ensure the sustainability of existing ventures as well as attract new investments into the petroleum sector of the economy.

WARRI – IRRI kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State has served the Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC, a fresh 15-day ultimatum to quit the area for allegedly causing untold development and long-drawn-out crisis in the community.

THE Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has said it has begun the process of engaging consultants to begin a scoping study of the nation’s minerals and mining sector.

THE Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE has just ended a global road show in a bid to attract genuine investors to the comatose power sector, which so far, had defied all logical solution.

Prospective investors in Nigeria’s power distribution sub‑sector, would be made to produce a loss reduction programme as part of their eligibility to bid for any if the 11 distribution companies unbundled from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.