Process as Policy: Why Nigeria’s 2025 Licensing Round signals new era for energy industry
By Abayomi Awobokun The conclusion of Nigeria’s 2025 Licensing Round represents far more than the award of upstream acreage. It marks another significant milestone in the evolution of Nigeria’s petroleum industry and reinforces an important truth: strong institutions and transparent processes are the foundation upon which sustainable investment is built. For decades, Nigeria possessed some of […]
$496m Tucano illegality and Buhari’s doctrine of necessity
There was sufficient time for President Buhari through his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters to deliver the letter requesting for the urgent approval of the money in question before it was illegality spent
Never in Nigeria’s history has a VP reduced himself as Osinbajo’s done – Reno
Let me start this statement by thanking Vice President Osinbajo for his attempt at responding to my last statement calling on him to substantiate his allegations that three persons under the Jonathan administration stole $3 billion from the public till.
UNICAL and matters arising
Convocation ceremonies are the highest crown and pride of every University, anywhere in the world. It signifies the final ritual, which formally confers or authenticates on the learner or students, the oracle of knowledge to serve the world.
Buhari and the Nigerian jigsaw puzzle
NIGERIA has become a breeding ground for despair with the people witnessing a succession of disenchantment.
OPL 245: The most popular oil block
The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of oil blocks in the country. These include Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL), Oil Mining Licence (OML) and Oil Exploration Licence (OEL), which allow the awardees, local and foreign, to explore for and develop oil and gas resources within the country. So far, there are 65 OPLs and 99 OMLs.
