Business

By Joel Anekwe The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has charged the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, to improve services to its customers. This is as the commission begun moves to resolve series of complaints by electricity subscribers to PHEDC in Rivers State Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Mr …

The Council for the Registration of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria (CRFFN) Tuesday organized a workshop in Port Harcourt to sensitize freight forwarders on the payment of practitioners’ operational fees through the regulator’s online portal. CRFFN’s director, Regulations and Enforcement, Basil Opara, told newsmen on the sidelines, that the workshop, with …

The new chairman of the Port Harcourt Unit of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), King George Abraham Appie, has lamented the non-functional state of the Port Harcourt and its negative impact on his members. Fielding questions from newsmen Wednesday in his office, Appie said the situation at …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Heritage Oil Services Ltd, Warri has began the 2019/2020 capacity building training for youths and young graduates from oil communities in OML 30, cluster 3, Evwreni field in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, with a call by the company for the trainees …

By Joel Anekwe, Port Harcourt Former managing director/chief executive officer of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, Engr. Tony Attah, at the weekend handed over the symbolic key to NLNG to his successor, Dr. Philip Mshelbila. This was as Attah expressed hope that the company would go beyond building of the …

Joel Anekwe The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has denied any involvement in the shortfall and consequent rise in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, or cooking gas, dismissing as grossly inaccurate a recent report that NLNG produces 22 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of Liquefied Petroleum Gas. A statement …

The recent commencement of construction of Train 7 plant of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural NLNG has been praised by industry experts, especially the out-going managing director and chief executive officer MD/CEO of the company, Engr. Tony Attah as the main catalyst for the achievement of the Federal Government’s “very ambitious …

The Bayelsa State Government has allocated 595 hectares of land for the proposed Brass fertilizer company in Odioma Kingdom in Brass Local Government Area of the state. This was as the government also hinted that the bush clearing at the site of the said project has commenced in earnest. The …

Management of the Rivers Port, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has intensified efforts to see an end to the face-off between the Port Terminal Operators Limited (PTOL), one of our terminal operators at the port, and importers and shipping agents using its services. This became known as the leadership of the …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board, KCDB, an SPDC funded cluster in the Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State, have lauded the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, SPDC, on its execution of projects and implementation of terms entered in its GMoU with community members of …