When early this month news filtered from Ghana, that Oando, a wholly Nigerian oil and gas company had been selected as strategic partner to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to develop a $1 billion gas infrastructure and assets for the Jubilee oilfield (Ghana’s biggest oil discovery), the report seem to have validated the strategic intent of Oando’s diversification programme.

African Oil and Energy Insurance Pool have admitted five Nigerian insurance companies and one reinsurer from Tunisia into the pool with a subscription of $200,000.

Nigerian insurance companies have upped the ante of their participation in oil and energy insurance business in Africa with the country’s underwriters leading the top five oil accounts on the continent with a whopping N24.6billion.

Forgiveness and its variants like pardon, amnesty etc are employed in the religious and political arena. They often signify a willingness to forget and never recall a wrong. In religious circles, this attribute is divine in its absolute sense since its stems from a supernatural being to lesser beings or humans.

The Nigeria’s petroleum industry bill has generated a lot of concern from all stakeholders in the industry; from the policy makers, operators, and human right activist to host communities. The Bill according to Nigeria’s senate president has generated more criticism than any other Bill in the senate. It is apparent that Nigerians are concerned with how the bill will ultimately affect the lives of the ordinary man on the streets.