Monitor Your Environment, Connected Advocacy Urges Communities Connected Advocacy, a Non-Governmental Organization, NGO has called on the people of oil producing area in Agbor, Delta South-south Nigeria to monitor their environment with a view to strengthening local movements and building spaces to demand environmental justice. Speaking during a training of local community people, Director of…
South Africa’s Eskom Returns Ugandan Power Plants as Licence Expires South Africa’s power firm Eskom returned two hydropower plants to Uganda’s government recently after Ugandan authorities declined to renew its licence, Uganda’s energy minister said. Under a 20-year concession signed in 2002, Eskom had been running the two plants located at the source of the…
Kurdistan’s Oil Exports Could Be Shut in for another Week Kurdistan’s oil exports could be suspended for several more days as officials from Kurdistan are set to return to Baghdad next week for a new round of talks on the resumption of crude exports from Kurdistan via a pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of…
Mammoet’s Ingenuity Saves Precious Time in Saudi Arabia …enables the upgrade of a major fertilizer plant to be completed almost twice as quickly as originally planned The Ma’aden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC), based in Saudi Arabia, operates some of the largest and busiest fertilizer plants anywhere in the world. Take, for example, the…
Global Gas Flaring Falls to Lowest Level Since 2010 Reduction in 2022 equivalent to taking three million cars off the road. There seems to be notable progress recorded in reducing gas flaring in 2022, with gas flared worldwide falling by 5 billion cubic meters (bcm) to 139 bcm, its lowest level since 2010. This is…
PENGASSAN backs FG on fuel subsidy removal, calls for revival of Refineries. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government fuel subsidy removal plan and has asked the government to stop subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. The association however called on the…
Afreximbank Grants $350,000 Fund For Nigeria Inland Waterways Development African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has provided a grant of $350,000 to Nigeria for the development of Inland Waterways along the Lower River Niger. In an official statement, the bank noted that the fund was provided for the project in a deal with the Nigerian Export-Import…
Court set to rule on suspended Seplat CEO’s suit A Federal Court of Appeal, sitting in Lagos, has set March 30, 2023 as the date to rule on the application seeking to set aside the interim ex-parte order previously made by the court, stopping Mr Roger Brown, from parading himself as the Chief Executive Officer…
Nigeria Can Be A Renewable Superpower – Boris Johnson Former British Prime Minister, Mr. Boris Johnson, has said Nigeria can be a renewable superpower. The former Prime Minister, who spoke at the 16th Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe lecture series in Lagos, on Monday called for a stronger “mutually-benefiting relationship” between Nigeria and the United Kingdom in order…
Rwanda Among Countries With Cheapest Electricity Tariffs – Report A report by Statista.com has listed Rwanda as one of the 30 countries globally with the cheapest household electricity prices, according to a report released earlier this month by an online platform specialised in market and consumer data. The other African countries on the list include…
