ORKERS in the informal sector have rejected the Federal Government’s plan to remove subsidy on petrol, saying it would worsen the sufferings of Nigerians and that the so-called safety nets by government would be meaningless.

IN a move aimed at implementing the Federal Government’s proposed transformation agenda in the power sector the management of Eko Distribution Company, one of the eleven distribution companies under the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN has begun the review of its operations.

It is a common belief that more than fifty years of petroleum exploration in the country has seen very little impact in the sub-text of petroleum and technological education, and therefore the development of local expertise in the sector.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has said if the revelations at the Senate Hearing on Privatisation especially energy, are anything to go by, a people-oriented reforms in the nation’s Power sector, is a mirage.

WORKERS in the nation’s Petroleum industry, have advised the Federal Government and others clamouring for total deregulation of the downstream sector of the nation’s oil industry, not to test the will of Nigerians including the organized labour in the sector.

The nation’s limp power sector may just be on its way to life if the body language of the present administration is anything to go by. What with the recent announcement that by the Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji of the attainment of about 4,005 megawatts of electricity, so far the highest quantum of electric power ever generated in the history of the country.

DIEZANI Alison Madueke, Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister represents different things to different people within the oil and gas industry. Noted for many firsts, her eloquence and capacity to wow her audience makes her an interviewers’ delight.

Interview by Oscarline Onwuemenyi with the pioneer Director-General and CEO of the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN), Engr. Reuben Okeke.

The traditional ruler of Jesse Kingdom has raised alarm over the threat posed to the community by oil spills caused by illegal oil bunkering and crude refineries in Jesse and other oil producing communities in Delta State.

Mr. Debo Ajayi is the Managing Director & Actuary serving Middle East Africa & South Asia of Milliman Actuaries & Consultants. Ajayi is of the view that the entry of multinational players into the Nigerian insurance market is a positive development which carries with it expectations of a better future. He spoke with Rosemary Onuoha of Sweetcrude.