THE Chairman, Senate Committee on Power and Steel Development, Senator Philip Tanimu Aduda, has ordered the Minister of Mines and Steel, Musa Sada, to as a matter of urgency dissolve the Interim Management Committee for their roles in the sale of equipment of the Ajaokuta Steel Company.

OPERATIONS of the oil and gas free zone in Onne, Rivers State, has cited security threats as a major setback in operations as well other challenges encountered in its activities of enabling logistical efficiency in the free zone.

THE Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has ordered International Oil Companies, IOCs, operating in the country to ensure the implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content, NOGIC Act, or face immense pressure from the federal government.

TO say that deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector is the rave of the moment in Nigeria will be an understatement, as analysts continue to argue back and forth on the merits and demerits of the policy.

A WARRI-based pipeline construction engineer, Mr. Misan Fenegbitse, has said that the insistence on the Horizontal Directional Drilling, HDD, by the Pan Ocean Oil Corporation of Nigeria for the Amukpe-Escravos Pipeline Project, AEPP, would alienate the people of the communities hosting the project from participating it.