By Joel Anekwe Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Train 7 project is a big enabler of his administration’s plan to transform Nigeria into a major gas and industrialised nation. The President stated this at the ground breaking of the Train 7 LNG project …
Read More »‘No Sylva, Akpabio Rift over NDDC Board’
By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa ‘No Rift between Sylva, Akpabio over NDDC Board’ By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has denied the existence of a rift between him and the minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio. This was contained in a …
Read More »PMB Urges Cost Reduction to Keep Oil Sector Competitive Against Renewable Energy
By Joel Anekwe As the world forges ahead with energy transition to reduced dependence on fossil fuel, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a cost reduction strategy to make the exploration and production of crude oil more competitive and attractive to investors. The President who was represented at the …
Read More »Insecurity: Don’t Blame Any Institution, Nembe Monarch Urges Nigerians
By Ebube Egbufor The Amanyanabo of Nembe Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, King Edmund Daukoru, has called on Nigerians to see security of lives and properties as a shared responsibility instead of blaming any single institution for not tackling the insecurity in the country. Speaking recently to newsmen at the Port …
Read More »Recruit Police Officers Every 6 Months, Not Yearly, Okiro Advises FG
By Ebube Egbufor A former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, says the proposed recruitment of ten thousand police officers by the Federal Government of Nigeria should be done every six months and not yearly as the Nigerian Police Force “is grossly understaffed.” Okiro who spoke recently to news …
Read More »NLNG Signs GMoU with 3 Rivers Communities on Sustainable Development
By Joel Anekwe The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has signed Global Memoranda of Understanding (GMoU) with three communities in Rivers State that would enable the communities “take ownership and drive sustainable community development” with the active support of the company. NLNG announced the first phase of the new …
Read More »NYSC Skills Model, Veritable Tool to Curbing Separatist Agitations, Insecurity ~ Rivers Coordinator
By Ebube Egbufor Rivers State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Chief Chinwendu Chukwu, has called for aggressive youth empowerment using the NYSC skills acquisition model so as to help curb issues of separatist agitations and insecurity. Chukwu made the call Friday while presiding over the 2021 Batch …
Read More »EndSARS: Bayelsa Inquiry Orders Police to Pay N100m Compensation to Victims
By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The panel of inquiry sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has ordered the Nigerian Police to pay the family of late Victor Ezekwueme, whom the police ordered to jump into the river at gun point, the sum of one hundred million naira (N100,000,000) as compensation. Justice Young …
Read More »NLNG Commissions New 126,060sqm Head Office in PH
By Joel Anekwe The new head office of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) in Port Harcourt was officially opened for operations on Wednesday. This was as the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, dismissed as “conspiracy” the narrative that the region was not safe for business. Speaking at the occasion, …
Read More »Kaduna Protests: NUPENG Threatens ‘Total Shut Down,’ Puts Members on Red Alert
The national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has expressed deep worry over what it described as “the violent turn of NLC peaceful protests by the dictatorial and despotic regime of Governor Nasir El-Rufai in Kaduna State,” warning that it will not hesitate to call …
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