In line with its resolve to maintain optimum safety standards on Nigerian waters, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has directed all passenger ships operating on Nigerian waters to ensure that they carry a fully functional Automated Identification System, AIS on board.

IN a move considered ambitious for a country fraught with a myriad of developmental challenges the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) has commenced a public sensitization programme advocating the establishment of a nuclear power plant to generate electricity to meet the country’s power supply requirements.

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Using Africa’s vast agricultural resources to help tackle climate change could earn the continent $1.5 billion a year, a World Bank head said on Tuesday.

It is taken for granted that reliable and affordable electricity is a basic condition for self-sustained economic development. This is because electricity plays a major role in providing lighting, communication, information, transportation, health services and education.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has lambasted oil companies operating in Nigeria for their penchant for indecent employment practices especially casualisation, constract staffing and out-sourcing of workers, urging them to retrace their steps in the interest of industrial peace in the sector.

TWO days after expiration of October 4 amnesty deadline, workers in the nation’s Petroleum industry, under the aegis of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), have thrown their weight behind the clamour by some militants and other concerned Nigerians for government to extend the amnesty offer to Niger Delta militants to lay down their arms and embrace peace, warning that it would be a disaster for the country should the amnesty deal fail.

PETROLEUM and Natural Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has called on government to increase budgetary allocation to the Niger Delta Ministry to aid the development of the region|

ORGANISED Labour in the oil industry, has said the government has admitted that there are several challenges facing the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the economy.

UMBRELLA body for senior staff association in the oil industry, has called on government to ensure that repentant militants are rehabilitated and giving employment to ensure that they do not go back to the creeks and resume militancy.

NATIONAL Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has denied reports that oil workers have commenced negotiation with government over planned total deregulation of the downstream sector of the nation’s petroleum industry, saying they only attended a consultative forum that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), invited them.