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,…
By JEROME ONOJA & JOSEPH CHANG With the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the province of Hubei, China’s demand for crude oil was stifled causing a drop of about 3million b/d as at early February because many of its factories closed. Not a lot of experts predicted the scale to which the disease would escalate….
…Says R & D panacea for Nigerian oil and gas industry challenges The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, (NCDMB) Engr. Simbi Wabote has stressed the Board’s commitment to change the narrative in research and development activities in the oil and gas industry with the implementation of the R&D Framework and…
OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on April 12 finalized an unprecedented production cut of nearly 10 million barrels, or a tenth of global supply, in hopes of boosting crashing prices amid the coronavirus pandemic and a price war, officials said. “This could be the largest reduction in production from OPEC for perhaps a decade,…
Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) comprising gas-fired and hydro stations said they could not generate 3,666 megawatts of electricity on Monday due to unavailability of gas. This information was made known in a daily energy report by the Advisory Power Team, office of the Vice President, a copy of which was obtained in Abuja on Tuesday …