By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government has said it would be meeting with the management of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to find a way of paying compensation for victims of the January 19 pipeline fire in Abule Egba, area of the state in which several buildings and properties worth millions of naira destroyed in […]

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, yesterday, accused security agencies, religious leaders and residents of the site of the recent pipeline explosion in Abule Egba in Lagos, of culpability in the sabotage of the pipeline.

In the wake of the dastard act that threw major parts of Lagos into mourning Sunday evening, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has revealed that the numbers of pipeline breaks in the last 18 years are 45, 347. The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Malam Mele Kyari, who released the figures, also emphasised […]

Several properties gutted By Olasunkanmi Akoni There is a raging fire at one of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipelines at Ekoro, Abule Egba area of Lagos State. Several properties were said to have been consumed. Preliminary investigation revealed that the inferno was as a result of pipeline vandals who burst one of the […]

SOMETIME in or around 1998, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, advertised for provision of consultancy services for the Bonga Oil Field Development Project which constituted the first major offshore Deep-Water Development Projects in Nigeria. BCE Consulting Engineering, of which I am the chief executive, applied for the provision of the services and after series of interviews, stages and demonstrations of the firm’s financial capacity to render the requisite services in respect of the Bonga Development Project, it was duly appointed to offer the services to the Bonga Field Development.

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has slammed a N15 million suit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over alleged consistent breaching of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. MRA, in a statement issued on Wednesday by Mr Idowu Adewale, its Communications Officer, said NNPC violated its statutory duties under the FOI by denying access to […]

By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja. Troops of the Nigerian Navy confronting pipeline vandals and oil thieves in the country have dismantled over 300 illegal crude oil siphoning g sites in Ogun and Lagos states even as some foreign collaborators without genuine documentation were also arrested. According to the Navy, this was achieved following clearance operation […]

Fuel subsidy averages N31.4/litre By Michael Eboh The Federal Government, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, spent N55.58 billion to subsidise Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, in December 2019, according to data obtained, yesterday, from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, the Nigerian petroleum downstream sector regulator. According to PPPRA’s […]

Phone calls have poured in asking if  ICPC’s Chairman, Prof Bolaji Owasononye has replied to my offering of 30th November titled, “Ibori’s Corruption Trial Ordeal; Enlightenment for ICPC Chairman.” My reply: “he is a busy man, we should give him time.”

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and shareholders of the Nigeria LNG Limited which include Shell, Total and Eni on Friday announced the Final Investment Decision for the take-off of Train 7 Project of the NLNG. The Train 7 project, which would deliver a significant local content in construction, production of cables, welding, valves, scaffolding, […]

THE managements of Mandilas Group Limited and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Retail Limited have expressed confidence that the new Quick Service Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos will provide fast and efficient after-sales support to vehicle owners in Lagos.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) have executed agreements over the multi-billion dollars Escravos Gas-to-Liquid (EGTL) project.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced crude oil and gas export sale of $355.93million in September 2019, indicating a significant increase of 52.84 per cent, compared to the August, 2019 figure of $232.87million, a release by the corporation’s Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Samson Makoji, has said.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Barely 15 days after fire gutted Isheri-Olofin community where a life was lost, men of the Lagos State Fire Service and other emergency responders raced to the community again on Saturday morning following a fresh fire outbreak scare. The fire alert by residents was, however, discovered, on getting to the site to […]

The recurring pipeline vandalism, which has done a lot of damage to both the Nigerian environment and the economy at large, may be a thing of the past, if the recent involvement of host communities by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is anything to go by.