The House of Representatives and stakeholders in the power sector on Wednesday agreed to set up a joint implementation committee on the proposed two-month free power supply to poor Nigerians as stimulus package. The stimulus package is aimed at alleviating the effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. In a statement in Abuja, the…
Ms Ronke Onadeko, a downstream petroleum industry expert, has advised the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), to review its policy on fuel pricing modulation in the country. Onadeko gave the advice at a virtual workshop for journalists on the oil sector reforms in Abuja. The Agency had adopted a monthly pricing modulation style that…
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has asked the Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG) to evaluate the capabilities of the beneficiaries of Project 100 programme and engage them in the execution of its Train 7 project and other related services. This request is contained in a recent letter by the Executive Secretary of NCDMB,…
Patricia Simon-Hart is the founder and Managing Director of Aftrac Limited, an oil and gas service company that has been in operation for over 20 years. She is the current Secretary to the Executive Board of PETAN (Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria) and a co-founder/ Vice President of Women in Energy Network. The former Commissioner…
Sir: Conspiracy theorists are not to blame for the flags linking 5G to COVID-19. Life abhors a vacuum and conspiracy theorists are providing an alternate narrative to the current global hysteria. In 2013, the mainstream media lost her virginity by promoting fake news: Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. A caption on the Cable News…
The management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) on Wednesday donated food items worth N10 million to Osun Government as relief materials to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on residents of the state. Mr Akin Ogunleye, the Osun Regional Head of IBEDC, while presenting the food items to the state government officials in Osogbo…
The management of NNPC, the Nigeria-owned oil company issued a statement recently that it had decided to give to third parties the management of their refineries in port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna after the completion of their turn around rehabilitation rather than run the refineries themselves. I must confess that I see their decision a…
DisCos•We’ve no approval yet, EEDC tells customers Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) said the Federal Governmnt may have to cough out a whopping N120 billion to operationalise the two-month free power to consumers proposal by the National Assembly as part of its palliatives to Nigerians under the COVID-19 dispensation if adopted. Director, Research and Advocacy and…
Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation/CNL Joint Venture, NNPC/CNL JV, has continued to operate safely, and without any Coronavirus (COVID-19) related incident in its operations. The company stated this on Wednesday in a release signed by Esimaje Brikinn, General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, CNL made available to TBI Africa…
Mr Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) says the Federal Government has made payment of over N200 billion to the power sector towards improving electricity supply. Kyari disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday shortly after a closed door meeting between the NNPC team, Minister of Power,…
