Prof. Ibrahim Madugu is the Director General, National Metallurgical Development Centre, NDMC, Jos, in this interview Gabriel Ewepu, he expresses optimism that the centre has a strategic role to transform Nigeria into an industrial hub in Africa. Excerpts:

COMRADE Brown Ogbeifun, until his retirement last month, was Industrial Relations Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. He was also the President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the First Deputy President General of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC.

Ibi Siddon, is the Managing Director, Union Admiralty Nigeria Limited, a frontline logistic and shipping company. In this interview with SweetCrude’s Godfrey Bivbere, he explained why Nigerian ship owners are unable to engage in mid-stream discharge of petroleum products; the difficulties in insuring indigenous vessels as well as the absence of dry docking facilities in the country and much more. Excerpts:

National Metallurgical Development Centre, NDMC, Jos, in this interview Gabriel Ewepu, he expresses optimism that the centre has a strategic role to transform Nigeria into an industrial hub in Africa. Excerpts:

The Egi people of Rivers State has accused the Nigerian unit of French oil giant, Total E & P Nigeria, of polluting their land since 1964 till date, with little or no effort towards remediating the affected areas.

Young inventors at the 2015 Sahara ‘Light Up Nigeria Challenge’ have developed simple power models that can reduce production cost and encourage the broad utilisation of different energy sources to power communities and schools.

Since the beginning of the second half of the year, oil prices began another round of steep decline to a six-year low hovering within the $40 per barrel band towards August end. The development has made a mess of every global or local prediction of possible price recovery before year end.

To strengthen indigenous participation in the country’s petroleum industry, Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, said it spent billions on content development in 2014.

Mr. Austin Avuru is the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc. In a recent chart with journalists, he provided fresh insights into the company’s performance and other sundry issues including the continued fall in global oil fuel prices, gas commercialisation policy and a host of others. Excerpts: How would you assess Seplat’s half year results in terms of the fundamentals and key highlights?

The first locally fabricated thickest walled pressure vessel has been unveiled in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.