The management of Ikeja Electric (IE) has cautioned against vandalism of its equipment to enable customers enjoy stable power supply during the Yuletide holidays. Mr Felix Ofulue, the Head, Corporate Communications Unit, IE, said in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday that service delivery during the Christmas and New Year holidays would be more efficient…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Lagos State recorded the highest number of subscribers in terms of active telephone voice call in the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the third quarter of 2019. The NBS made this known in a telecoms data report for the third quarter of…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) have executed agreements over the multi-billion dollars Escravos Gas-to-Liquid (EGTL) project. Speaking at a sign-off meeting in Abuja, the Group Managing Director of the corporation, Mele Kyari, disclosed that CNL would boost the domestic gas market with 400MMScf per day gas supply, equivalent…
The Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, @HETimipreSylva has declared 2020 as the year of Gas for the Nation. He made this known when he received the Executive Management of the Nigeria Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (@NLPGA) led by the Mr. Nuhu Yakubu, President of NLPGA. The visit afforded the visiting team the opportunity…
The Minister of Environment, Mr. Muhammad Mahmud, has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the proposed Abuja 1350MW Independent Power Plant project aimed at boosting electricity supply in parts of the nation. The Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Mr Samson Makoji said in a statement that Mahmud gave…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on relevant authorities to ensure proper regulation and monitoring of gas sales to reduce incidents of gas explosion in the state. The House Deputy Speaker, Mr Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni, who presided at the plenary on Monday, called on the state Commissioner for Environment to enforce…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), on Monday, sealed off two fuel stations and one gas station in Lokoja, the Kogi capital, for various alleged infractions. A correspondent who monitored the exercise, reports that the filling stations, Emmaliz Nigeria Limited and Always Petroleum Limited, were sealed off for allegedly under-dispensing petroleum products to motorists. While…
Oil fell on Monday after Russia said an OPEC-led pact may consider easing output cuts next year, but prices held near recent three-month highs on hopes for a trade deal between the United States and China. Brent crude LCOc1 was down 19 cents, or 0.29 per cent, at 65.95 dollars per barrel by 1010 GMT…
The Department of Petroleum Resources in Bayelsa says it has sealed three petrol stations in Yenagoa for under dispensing and lack of basic operational equipment. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the exercise took place when officials of the department, led by the Assistant Chief Officer Administration in the state field office, Mr Oshodi…
UKAID/Department for International Development (DFID) under its Modern Energy Cooking Services -Technology Research Innovation for International Development [MECS-TRIID] in conjunction with the Centre for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme University, Ebonyi State, has partnered with Techno Oil for the Enhancement of LPG, distribution and re-circulation of Techno Oil LPG cylinders to two rural communities…